Rostock (deu)

Rostock

Rostock ranks 594th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Takatsuki, Conakry, and Mobile, Alabama. Memorable people born in Rostock include Joachim Gauck, Albrecht Kossel, and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Memorable people who died in Rostock include Noël Liétaer, Margaret Sambiria, and Hugo Grotius. Rostock has been the birth place of many athletes, and cyclists and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Rostock is located in Germany.

Rostock, officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock, is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 210,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany. Read more on Wikipedia