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Zeebrugge (Dutch pronunciation: [zeːˈbrʏɣə] ⓘ; from Brugge aan zee [1] [ˌbrʏɣə ʔaːn ˈzeː], meaning "Bruges-on-Sea"; [2] French: Zeebruges, pronounced) is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port.
The Port of Zeebrugge (also referred to as the Port of Bruges or Bruges Seaport) is a large container, bulk cargo, new vehicles and passenger ferry terminal port on the North Sea. The port is located in the municipality of Bruges , West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium , handling over 50 million tonnes of cargo annually.
A rip tide, or riptide, is a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides become the strongest where ...
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Tide range is the vertical distance between the highest high tide and lowest low tide. The size of the lunar tide compared to the solar tide (which comes once every 12 hours) is generally about 2 to 1, but the actual proportion along any particular shore depends on the location, orientation, and shape of the local bay or estuary.
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The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008), [4] of whom around 20,000 live in the city centre. The metropolitan area , including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 616 km 2 (238 sq mi) and had a total of 255,844 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
The Zeeland Bridge was built between 1963 and 1965. It was inaugurated on 15 December 1965 by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and was originally called Eastern Scheldt Bridge (Dutch: Oosterscheldebrug) before being renamed the Zealand Bridge on 13 April 1967. [3] At the time of its completion, it was the longest bridge in Europe.