Nieuwpoort ( NEW-port, Dutch: [ˈniupoːrt] (listen); West Flemish: Nieuwpôort; French: Nieuport [njøpɔʁ]) is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Nieuwpoort proper and the towns of Ramskapelle and Sint-Joris. On 1 January 2008 Nieuwpoort had a total population of 11,062. The total area is 31.00 km² which gives a population density of 350 inhabitants per km². The current mayor of Nieuwpoort is Geert Vanden Broucke (CD&V)
In Nieuwpoort, the Yser flows into the North Sea. It is also the home of a statue created by Jan Fabre called Searching for Utopia. The Stadshalle Grain Hall (market hall) with its belfry was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France site, owing to its historical civic (not religious) importance and its architecture.

 The belfry of Nieuwpoort is the second tallest in Belgium, after that of Brussels.
Nieuwpoort has a railway station which opened on 26 June 1841 and was closed during World War I but reopened in 1923. The train services are operated by National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS).

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