Middelburg

capital city of Zeeland, the Netherlands

City city Q52101

Facts

22 properties

Instance of: city, place with town rights and privileges, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands^[5]^[6]
Inception: 1217^[16]
Country: Netherlands, France^[3]
Official website: www.middelburg.nl^[18]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 51.500°, 3.614°
Capital of: Zeeland, Middelburg, Bouches-de-l'Escaut, Schelde en Maas Department^[21]^[22]^[23]
Area: +53.05^[27]
Demonym: Middelburger^[25]
Described by source: Topographia Circuli Burgundici^[20]
Elevation above sea level: +3^[26]
Head of government: Harald Bergmann^[4]
Local dialing code: 0118^[15]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Middelburg, Arrondissement de Middelbourg^[2]
P14586: 89187
Population: +49956^[19]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 49,956 GeoNames 46,485 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code: 4330–4338^[14]
Shares border with: Veere, Vlissingen^[7]^[8]
Significant event: Siege of Middelburg^[17]
Topic has template: Template:Dutch municipality Middelburg, Zeeland^[24]
Twinned administrative body: Nagasaki, Vilvoorde, Głogów, Simeria, Teiuș, Folkestone^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]
Visitor center: Uit In Middelburg^[28]
Water as percent of area: +8.48

🏷️ Also known as

en Middelburg ar مدلبورخ ar ميديلبورخ el Μίντελμπουρχ es Midelburgo fa میدل‌بورخ fr Middelbourg he מידלבורך hi मिडलबर्ग ja ミデルブルフ ko 미델뷔르흐 pt Middelburg ru Мидделбург th มิดเดิลบืร์ค uk Мідделбург zh 米德尔堡 zh-hant 米德爾堡

🔖 Identifiers · 46

VIAF cluster ID: 139561954
Library of Congress authority ID: n81035076
GND ID: 4115142-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons): 20040103 Middelburg Stadhuis.jpg ↗
Alvin ID: alvin-place:5126
ArchINFORM location ID: 13852
BAG residence ID: 1007
BBC Things ID: 88323784-f234-4e9f-92a3-624b124955f6
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 144896168
Data Commons ID: wikidataId/Q2457179
Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID: Muntelier
Early Modern Letters Online location ID: d8039fbb-f5f5-458d-9435-6267fbcfd8b9

Show all 46 identifiers +34

FactGrid item ID: Jochen Müller
Freebase ID: /m/0ps68
GNS Unique Feature ID: -2149393
GeoNames ID: 2750896
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID: 7006752
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID: Middelburg (Zeeland, Netherlands)
IdRef ID: 114171831
Latin Place Names ID: m/medioburgi
Lex ID: Middelburg
Museum-digital place ID: 10154
MusicBrainz area ID: 4544484a-a568-4e07-b7a3-75db1f09f8ec
Münzkabinett ID: location/744
NL CR AUT ID: ge516039
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID: geo/F846199B-E98E-4249-8439-844D2F54D68F
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007555035905171
National Library of Latvia ID: 000323005
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 661423
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID: 3940584
OpenStreetMap node ID: 3122879753
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 1579282
Provenio UUID: b834ed8c-c347-4b4a-8d13-10f00bde0029
Quora topic ID: Middelburg-Zeeland-NL
RKD thesaurus ID: 92
SBN place ID: RLZL002165
SNARC ID: Paul Heyse
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID: geografico/1203022
Topic's main category: Category:Middelburg, Zeeland
UN/LOCODE: NLMID
Vikidia article ID: fr:Middelbourg
Wellcome Collection concept ID: uua6rdkt
Who's on First ID: 101839435
WikiKids ID: Middelburg_(Zeeland)
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJrmcYkMr4CHDQFKR7D8YP
Yale LUX ID: place/8e39579b-7064-4b7d-9ee3-c6a0f7858387

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🔗 Connections

People born here 61

Jakob Roggeveen, Pieter Boddaert, Etty Hillesum, Balthasar van der Ast, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Elisabeth Willeboordse, Isaac Beeckman, Adriaen Coorte +53 more

← Work location 33

Albrecht Dürer, Simon Stevin, Hans Lippershay, Jan Gossaert, Jan Gossaert, Cornelis Drebbel, Jacob Cats, Ambrosius Bosschaert +25 more

People who died here 27

Hans Lippershay, Jakob Roggeveen, Menasseh Ben Israel, Philippe van Lansberge, Adriaen Coorte, Hadrianus Junius, Dirck van Delen, Wim van Heel +19 more

Located in this place 6

Middelburg railway station, Middelburg Abbey, Middelburg Town Hall, Oostkerk, Siege of Middelburg, Bierbrouwerij De Hopbloem

Twinned administrative body 6

Nagasaki, Głogów, Vilvoorde, Folkestone, Simeria, Teiuș

← Twinned administrative body 6

Nagasaki, Głogów, Vilvoorde, Folkestone, Simeria, Teiuș

← Capital 5

Zeeland, Walcheren, County of Zeeland, Middelburg, Bouches-de-l'Escaut

Capital of 3

Zeeland, Middelburg, Bouches-de-l'Escaut

← Category combines topics 3

Category:People from Middelburg, Zeeland, Category:Births in Middelburg, Zeeland, Category:Deaths in Middelburg, Zeeland

← Headquarters location 3

Middelburg, Brouwerij Kees, Bank Hondius & Zoon NV

Country 2

France, Netherlands

Shares border with 2

Vlissingen, Veere

← Place of burial 2

William II of Holland, Floris de Voogd

Category for people born here 1

Category:Births in Middelburg, Zeeland

Category for people who died here 1

Category:Deaths in Middelburg, Zeeland

Category of associated people 1

Category:People from Middelburg, Zeeland

Contained subdivisions 1

Brouwerij Kees

Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID 1

Muntelier

FactGrid item ID 1

Jochen Müller

Head of government 1

Harald Bergmann

Instance of 1

city

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

Middelburg

Located in time zone 1

UTC+01:00

SNARC ID 1

Paul Heyse

Significant event 1

Siege of Middelburg

Topic has template 1

Template:Dutch municipality Middelburg, Zeeland

Topic's main category 1

Category:Middelburg, Zeeland

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Middelburg, Zeeland

← Contains settlement 1

Middelburg

← Different from 1

Middelburg

← Location of creation 1

Prins Willem

← Location of formation 1

Brouwerij Kees

← Shares border with 1

Veere

← Template has topic 1

Template:Dutch municipality Middelburg, Zeeland

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Summary

Middelburg is a city^[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[4] ↑ Middelburg — head of government (P6): Harald Bergmann. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Middelburg — country (P17): Netherlands. archINFORM. Retrieved 2018-08-06. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Middelburg — instance of (P31): place with town rights and privileges. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Middelburg — instance of (P31): cadastral populated place in the Netherlands. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Middelburg — shares border with (P47): Veere. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Middelburg — shares border with (P47): Vlissingen. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Middelburg — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Middelburg. cbs.nl. Retrieved 2022-06-14. cbs.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Middelburg — twinned administrative body (P190): Vilvoorde. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Middelburg — twinned administrative body (P190): Głogów. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Middelburg — twinned administrative body (P190): Simeria. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Middelburg — twinned administrative body (P190): Teiuș. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Middelburg — twinned administrative body (P190): Folkestone. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Middelburg — postal code (P281): 4330–4338. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Middelburg — local dialing code (P473): 0118. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Middelburg — inception (P571): 1217. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Middelburg — significant event (P793): Siege of Middelburg. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Middelburg — official website (P856): https://www.middelburg.nl/. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Middelburg — population (P1082): 49,956. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Middelburg — described by source (P1343): Topographia Circuli Burgundici. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Middelburg — capital of (P1376): Zeeland. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Middelburg — capital of (P1376): Middelburg. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Middelburg — capital of (P1376): Bouches-de-l'Escaut. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Middelburg — topic has template (P1424): Template:Dutch municipality Middelburg, Zeeland. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Middelburg — demonym (P1549): Middelburger. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Middelburg — elevation above sea level (P2044): 3 m. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Middelburg — area (P2046): 53.05 km². wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Middelburg — visitor center (P2872): Uit In Middelburg. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Middelburg is an instance of city (Q515) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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17w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14586 → 89187

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21w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-06-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID → geografico/1203022

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23w ago · Kees 1959 · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Lex ID → Middelburg

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