+{{Expand Dutch|Tessenderlo|date=September 2022|topic=geo}}
+{{Infobox Belgium municipality
+|name = Tessenderlo
+|picture = Tessenderlo train factory.JPG
+|picture-legend = Chemical plant and rail yard in Tessenderlo
+|map = Tessenderlo Limburg Belgium Map.svg
+|map-legend = Location of Tessenderlo in Limburg
+|arms = Blason Tessenderlo.svg
+|flag = Tessenderlo vlag.svg
+|region = {{BE-REG-FLE}}
+|community = {{BE-NL}}
+|province = {{BE-PROV-LI}}
+|arrondissement = [[Arrondissement of Hasselt|Hasselt]]
+|nis = 71057
+|pyramid-date=
+|0-19=
+|20-64=
+|65=
+|foreigners=
+|foreigners-date=
+|mayor = Karolien Eens ([[Vooruit (political party)|Vooruit]]-SPiL)
+|majority = [[Vooruit (political party)|Vooruit]]-SPiL, [[Christian Democratic and Flemish|CD&V]]
+|postal-codes = 3980
+|telephone-area = 013
+|web = [http://www.tessenderlo.be/ www.tessenderlo.be]
+|coordinates = {{coord|51|04|N|05|05|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
+}}
+'''Tessenderlo''' ({{IPA-nl|təˈsɛndərˌloː}}; {{lang-li|Loei}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] in the [[Belgium|Belgian]] province of [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]]. It is where the three Belgian provinces of Limburg, [[Flemish Brabant]] and [[Antwerp (province)|Antwerp]] meet at the front gate of the [[Averbode Abbey]]. The municipality Tessenderlo encompasses the villages of Tessenderlo proper, [[Schoot (Tessenderlo)|Schoot]], [[Engsbergen]], [[Hulst, Belgium|Hulst]] and [[Berg (Tessenderlo)|Berg]]. On January 1, 2006, Tessenderlo had a total population of 16,811. The total area is 51.35 km<sup>2</sup> which gives a [[population density]] of 327 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>. The name ''Tessenderlo'' means "''(the open place in) the forest of the [[Toxandri|Taxandrians]]''".
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+It is along the [[Albert Canal]] and the [[European route E313]], the highway between [[Antwerp]] and [[Liège]], one of the reasons it was the place for the first Belgian "Industrial Zone of National Importance" in the 1960s.
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+Tessenderlo was the scene of an infamous industrial disaster during World War II, when a stock of 150 tonnes of [[ammonium nitrate]] at the chemical plant of ''Produits Chimiques de Tessenderloo'' (now [[Tessenderlo Group]]) - located near the centre of town - exploded on April 29, 1942, killing 189 people at the plant and in the town.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goeman |first=Thierry |url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20170428_02856646 |title=Vergeten ramp van Tessenderlo kostte 75 jaar geleden aan 190 mensen het leven |language=Dutch |trans-title=Forgotten Tessenderlo disaster 75 years ago killed 190 people |work=[[Het Nieuwsblad]] |publisher=[[Mediahuis]] |date=2017-04-29 |accessdate=2019-02-04 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170429160738/http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20170428_02856646 |archive-date=2017-04-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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+Tessenderlo is part of a small western zone of Limburg where the local dialect is not the [[Limburgian dialect]], but [[Brabantic]].
+
+==Notable people==
+
+* [[Kate Ryan]], Belgian singer
+* [[Chantal Calin]], Belgian singer
+* [[Tia Hellebaut]], Olympic Champion 2008 Highjump
+* [[Minus van Looi]], writer
+
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
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+==External links==
+* {{Commons category-inline}}
+*[http://www.tessenderlo.be Official website] {{in lang|nl}}
+
+{{Geographic location
+|Centre = Tessenderlo
+|NE = [[Ham, Belgium|Ham]]
+|E = [[Beringen, Belgium|Beringen]]
+|S = [[Diest]] ([[Flemish Brabant|VBR]])
+|SW = [[Scherpenheuvel-Zichem]] ([[Flemish Brabant|VBR]])
+|NW = [[Laakdal]] ([[Antwerp (province)|VAN]])
+}}
+{{Municipalities in Limburg}}
+{{Authority control}}
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+[[Category:Municipalities of Limburg (Belgium)]]
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+{{LimburgBE-geo-stub}}