Groningen
Groningen is a lively student city in the Northern Netherlands. It is the capital of a province with the same name and home to about 217,000 inhabitants, making it the largest city in the north.
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- City with about 238,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code GRQ
- Description: capital city of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Postal codes9711-97189721-97289731-97389741-9747
Places of Interest
Highlights include Euroborg and Martinitoren.
Martinitoren
Scenic viewpoint
The Martinitoren is the tallest church steeple in the…
Groningen railway station
Railway station
Groningen railway station, locally called…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oosterparkwijk and Hoogkerk.
Groningen
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Latitude
53.2191° or 53° 13′ 9″ north
Longitude
6.568° or 6° 34′ 5″ east
UN/LOCODE
NL GRQ
Open location code
9F586H99+J6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Groningen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Groningen”
- Albanian: “Groningen”
- Amharic: “ግሮኒንገን”
- Arabic: “خَرُنِنغِن”
- Arabic: “خرونينغن”
- Arabic: “غرونينغن”
- Aragonese: “Groningen”
- Armenian: “Գրոնինգեն”
- Asturian: “Groningen”
- Azerbaijani: “Qroningen”
- Basque: “Groningen”
- Belarusian: “Гронінген (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Гронінген (места)”
- Belarusian: “Гронінген”
- Bengali: “খ্রোনিঙেন”
- Bengali: “গ্রোনিংগেন”
- Breton: “Groningen”
- Bulgarian: “Гронинген”
- Catalan: “Groningen”
- Cebuano: “Groningen”
- Chinese: “格罗宁根”
- Chinese: “格羅寧根”
- Chuvash: “Гронинген”
- Croatian: “Groningen”
- Czech: “Groningen”
- Danish: “Groningen”
- Dutch: “Groningen Stad”
- Dutch: “Groningen”
- Dutch: “Groot Loug”
- Dutch: “Grunn”
- Dutch: “Martinistad”
- Dutch: “Stad Groningen”
- Dutch: “Stad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خرونينجين”
- Esperanto: “Groningen”
- Esperanto: “Groningeno”
- Esperanto: “Groningo”
- Estonian: “Groningen”
- Fijian: “Groningen”
- Finnish: “Groningen”
- French: “Groningue”
- Galician: “Groninga”
- Georgian: “გრონინგენი”
- German: “Groningen”
- Greek: “Χρόνινγκεν”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રૉનિન્જેન”
- Hausa: “Groningen”
- Hebrew: “חרונינגן”
- Hebrew: “כרונינגן”
- Hindi: “ग्रोनिंगेन”
- Hungarian: “Groningen”
- Icelandic: “Groningen”
- Ido: “Groningen”
- Indonesian: “Groningen, Groningen”
- Indonesian: “Groningen”
- Interlingua: “Groninga”
- Interlingua: “Groningen”
- Interlingue: “Groningen”
- Irish: “Groningen”
- Italian: “Groninga”
- Japanese: “フローニンゲン”
- Japanese: “フローニンゲン市”
- Javanese: “Groningen”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೊನಿಂಗೆನ್”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೊನಿನ್ಗೆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Гронинген”
- Kirghiz: “Гронинген”
- Korean: “흐로닝언”
- Kurdish: “Groningen”
- Ladin: “Groningen”
- Latin: “Groninga”
- Latvian: “Groningena”
- Limburgan: “Groninge”
- Lithuanian: “Groningenas”
- Lombard: “Groninga”
- Low German: “Grunnen”
- Low German: “Grunneng”
- Luxembourgish: “Groningen”
- Macedonian: “Гронинген”
- Malay: “Groningen”
- Maltese: “Groningen”
- Manx: “Groningen”
- Marathi: “ग्रोनिंगन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Groningen (siâⁿ)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Groningen”
- Minangkabau: “Groningen”
- Moksha: “Гронингэн”
- Mongolian: “Гронинген хот”
- Mongolian: “Гронинген”
- Moroccan Arabic: “خرونينڭن”
- Northern Frisian: “Groningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Groningen (by)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Groningen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Groningen”
- Norwegian: “Groningen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Groninga”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Groningburg”
- Oromo: “Groningen”
- Ossetian: “Гронинген”
- Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੋਨਿਂਗਨ”
- Papiamento: “Groningen”
- Persian: “خرونینگن”
- Polish: “Groningen”
- Portuguese: “Groninga”
- Portuguese: “Groningen”
- Pushto: “خرونینګن”
- Pushto: “گرونينګن”
- Quechua: “Groningen”
- Romanian: “Groningen”
- Russian: “Гронинген”
- Saterfriesisch: “Groningen”
- Scots: “Groningen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Groningen”
- Serbian: “Гронинген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Groningen”
- Sicilian: “Gròninga”
- Silesian: “Groningen”
- Sinhala: “ග්රෝනින්ජෙන්”
- Slovak: “Groningen”
- Slovenian: “Groningen”
- Somali: “Groningen”
- Spanish: “Groninga”
- Swahili: “Groningen”
- Swedish: “Groningen”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Гронинген”
- Tamil: “கிரோனின்ஜென்”
- Tatar: “Гронинген”
- Tatar: “Грониңен”
- Telugu: “గ్రానిన్జేన్”
- Thai: “โกรนิงเกน”
- Thai: “โกรนิงเงิน”
- Turkish: “Groningen”
- Twi: “Groningen”
- Ukrainian: “Гронінген”
- Ukrainian: “Ґронінґен”
- Urdu: “خرونیگین”
- Urdu: “گرونِنگن”
- Uzbek: “Groningen (Niderlandiya)”
- Uzbek: “Groningen”
- Venetian: “Groninga”
- Vietnamese: “Groningen”
- Vlaams: “Groningen”
- Volapük: “Groningen (zif)”
- Volapük: “Groningen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Groningen”
- Welsh: “Groningen”
- Western Frisian: “Grins”
- Western Frisian: “Grinsstêd”
- Western Panjabi: “گروننگن شہر”
- Wu Chinese: “格罗宁根”
- Yiddish: “גראנינגען”
- Yue Chinese: “格羅寧根”
- Zeeuws: “Greunienge”
- “ma Koninen”
- “ma Koninken”
- “ma tomo Koninen”
- “ma tomo Koninken”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Groningen: Highlights
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