Zoetermeer (nld)

Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer ranks 3,218th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Batna (city), Brody, and Gillingham, Kent. Memorable people born in Zoetermeer include Antonius van den Broek, Leroy Fer, and Romee Strijd. Memorable people who died in Zoetermeer include Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Jopie Selbach. Zoetermeer has been the birth place of many physicists, and soccer players and the death place of many athletes. Zoetermeer is located in Netherlands.

Zoetermeer is a city in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.05 km2 (14.31 sq mi) of which 2.60 km2 (1.00 sq mi) is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2023 this had grown to 126.998, making it the fourth largest population centre in the province of South Holland, after Rotterdam, The Hague and Leiden. While now a city in its own right, Zoetermeer started out as a suburb of The Hague and is still a part of the Greater The Hague urban area. Read more on Wikipedia