Amersfoort (nld)

Amersfoort

Amersfoort ranks 932nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Los Angeles County, California, Newport Beach, California, and Homs. Memorable people born in Amersfoort include Piet Mondrian, Johannes Heesters, and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Memorable people who died in Amersfoort include Frits Zernike, Jacob van Campen, and Paulus Bor. Amersfoort has been the birth place of many painters, and soccer players and the death place of many physicists, and architects. Amersfoort is located in Netherlands.

Amersfoort is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands. As of 31 January 2023, the municipality had a population of 160,902, making it the second-largest of the province and fifteenth-largest of the country. Amersfoort is also one of the largest Dutch railway junctions with its three stations—Amersfoort Centraal, Schothorst and Vathorst—due to its location on two of the Netherlands' main east to west and north to south railway lines. The city was used during the 1928 Summer Olympics as a venue for the modern pentathlon events. Amersfoort marked its 750th anniversary as a city in 2009. Read more on Wikipedia