Megen or Meghem is a small city in the southern part of the Netherlands, in the province North Brabant, close to the river Maas.

Megen used to be the capital of the feudal County of Megen (including Haren, Macharen and Teeffelen) that was founded around 1145.

In 1810, the County of Megen became a municipality, to which Haren and Macharen were added in 1821.

[3] In 1803 became one of the eponymous components of the Apostolic Vicariate of Ravenstein-Megen, a Roman Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction which was suppressed in 1853, its territory merged into the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch.

The other is occupied by the Franciscans, followers of St. Francis of Assisi.