Beuningen is a municipality

Municipality

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 and a town in the eastern Netherlands

Netherlands

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 close to the city of Nijmegen. The municipality consists of the towns Beuningen, Ewijk

Ewijk

Ewijk is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Beuningen, and lies about 7 km north of Wijchen.Ewijk was a separate municipality until 1984, when it was merged with Beuningen....

, Winssen

Winssen

Winssen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is the smallest village of the municipality of Beuningen, and lies about 8 km north of Wijchen. It lies south of the river Waal...

 and Weurt

Weurt

Weurt is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Beuningen, and lies about 0.1 km West of Nijmegen.Weurt was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Beuningen....

. 1 Mile to the north lays the river the Waal

Waal

River Waal is the main distributary branch of river Rhine flowing to the central Netherlands for about before joining the Meuse near Woudrichem to form the Boven Merwede. It is a major river which serves as the main waterway connecting the Rotterdam harbor and Germany. Nijmegen, Tiel, Zaltbommel...

Beuningen lies in the armpit of the A73 (Nijmegen-Venlo, on the south side) and A50 (Zwolle-Eindhoven, in the west) motorway interchange. In the north it borders the river Waal and Nijmegen in the east. Beuningen has a population of 25,074 (May 1 2006).

Beuningen in Overijssel

In the province Overijssel

Overijssel

Overijssel is a province of the Netherlands in the central eastern part of the country. The region has a NUTS classification of NL21. The province's name means "Lands across river IJssel". The capital city of Overijssel is Zwolle and the largest city is Enschede...

 there is also a small (200-300 people) town called Beuningen that is part of the municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 Losser

Losser

-Population centres:*Beuningen*De Lutte*Glane*Losser*Overdinkel-Losser:The oldest known reference to Losser dates from the tenth century. Originally, the village consisted of two separate parts. Both were almost completely destroyed when on 21 September 1665, troops from Münster set fire to...

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