Stadskanaal (ˌstɑtskaːˈnaːl) is a town and municipality with a population of 32,715 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. It was named after the canal Stadskanaal.
From 1800 until 1900 this area was ideal for its peat mining, and so the canal came to ship all the peat to Groningen, the capital of the province.
In the Gronings dialect the town is called "Knoal" and the locals are called "Knoalsters".
The population centres in the municipality are:
Alteveer
Barlage
Blekslage
Braamberg
Ceresdorp
Höchte
Holte
Horsten
Kopstukken
Mussel
Musselkanaal
Onstwedde
Oomsberg
Smeerling
Stadskanaal
Sterenborg
Ter Maarsch
Ter Wupping
Veenhuizen
Vledderhuizen
Vledderveen
Vosseberg
Wessinghuizen
Stadskanaal is twinned with
Bielsko-Biała in Poland
File:Stadskanaal, Poststraatkerk foto4 2011-05-09 14.47.JPG|Stadskanaal, church: de Poststraatkerk
File:Stadskanaal, rooms katholieke kerk foto5 2011-05-09 14.44.JPG|Stadskanaal, catholic church
File:Musselkanaal, kerk3 foto2 2011-05-09 14.05.JPG|Musselkanaal, church
File:Musselkanaal, ophaalbrug foto1 2011-05-09 13.39.
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