Stuttgart (deu)

Stuttgart

Stuttgart ranks 92nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Baku, Chiba Prefecture, and Vancouver. Memorable people born in Stuttgart include Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and Gerda Taro. Memorable people who died in Stuttgart include Ferdinand Porsche, Robert Bosch, and Theodor Heuss. Stuttgart has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and writers. Stuttgart is located in Germany.

Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the Stuttgarter Kessel and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 635,911, making it the sixth largest city in Germany, while over 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and nearly 5.5 million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the top 4 European metropolitan areas by GDP; Mercer listed Stuttgart as 21st on its 2015 list of cities by quality of living; innovation agency 2thinknow ranked the city 24th globally out of 442 cities in its Innovation Cities Index; and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked the city as a Beta-status global city in their 2020 survey. Stuttgart was one of the host cities for the official tournaments of the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cups. Read more on Wikipedia