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Kiel

Kiel ranks 407th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Oviedo, İzmir, and Palace of Versailles. Memorable people born in Kiel include Max Planck, Peter III of Russia, and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp. Memorable people who died in Kiel include Erich Raeder, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Otto Diels. Kiel has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and philosophers. Kiel is located in Germany.

Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Bay of Kiel and lies in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula, on the mouth of the Schwentine River, approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) northeast of Hamburg. The world's busiest artificial waterway, the Kiel Canal, has a terminus in Kiel's Holtenau district. This canal connects the Baltic to the North Sea, with its other end in Brunsbüttel. Most of Kiel is part of Holstein. The boroughs north of the Schwentine also belong to Wagria, while those north of the Kiel Canal are historically part of Southern Schleswig. Read more on Wikipedia