Hanover (deu)

Hanover

Hanover ranks 121st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Miami, Rosario, and Milwaukee. The most famous people from Hanover are William Herschel, George I of Great Britain, and Friedrich Schlegel. The most famous people who died in Hanover are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, and Gerd von Rundstedt. Hanover has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many military personnels, and politicians. Hanover is located in Germany.

Hanover is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest in northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has approximately 1.16 million inhabitants (2019) and is the largest in the Hanover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region, the 17th biggest metropolitan area by GDP in the European Union. Read more on Wikipedia