Hoorn (nld)

Hoorn

Hoorn ranks 922nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hildesheim, Montbéliard, and Ray, Iran. Memorable people born in Hoorn include Willem Schouten, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, and Frank de Boer. Memorable people who died in Hoorn include Miep Gies, Andreas Cellarius, and Wim Ruska. Hoorn has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many writers, and astronomers. Hoorn is located in Netherlands.

Hoorn is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the largest town and the traditional capital of the region of West Friesland. Hoorn is located on the Markermeer, 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of Alkmaar and 35 kilometers (22 mi) north of Amsterdam. The municipality has just over 73,000 inhabitants and a land area of 20.38 km2 (7.87 sq mi), making it the third most densely populated municipality in North Holland after Haarlem and Amsterdam. Apart from the city of Hoorn, the municipality includes the villages of Blokker and Zwaag, as well as parts of the hamlets De Bangert, De Hulk and Munnickaij. Read more on Wikipedia