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 Ubbo Emmius. 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 place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of the country; as of December 2021, it had 235,287 inhabitants, making it the sixth largest city/municipality in the Netherlands and the second largest outside the Randstad. Read more on Wikipedia