Hulst (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦʏlst] ⓘ) is a municipality and city in southwestern Netherlands in the east of Zeelandic Flanders.

In 1702 Vauban attacked the town, but failled to capture it, which makes it the only fortress to successfully resist that great engineer.

It is situated in the east of the region Zeelandic Flanders, which is connected by land only to Belgium, on the Dutch-Belgian border.

Hulst is neighbouring the municipalities of Terneuzen in the west, Stekene (Belgium) and Sint-Gillis-Waas (B) in the south, Beveren (B) in the east, and Reimerswaal in the north.

The underlying idea is that the h at the beginning of a word is not pronounced in the Zeelandic / East Flemish dialect.