Groningen (nld)

Groningen

Groningen ranks 444th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chelyabinsk, Jersey City, New Jersey, and Haifa. Memorable people born in Groningen include Daniel Bernoulli, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Johan Huizinga. Memorable people who died in Groningen include Adriaan Blaauw, Franciscus Gomarus, and Albert Eckhout. Groningen has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many astronomers, and philosophers. Groningen is located in Netherlands.

Groningen is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest city as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of the country; as of January 2025, it had 244,807 inhabitants, making it the sixth largest city/municipality in the Netherlands and the second largest outside the Randstad. The Groningen metropolitan area has a population of about half a million inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia