Province of the SW Netherlands area 1,790 sq
km/691 sq mi capital Middelburg towns
Vlissingen, Terneuzen, Goes population (1988)
356,000 products cereals, potatoes features
mostly below sea level, Zeeland is protected
by a system of dykes history disputed by the
counts of Flanders and Holland during the
Middle Ages, Zeeland was annexed to Holland
in 1323 by Count Willam III.