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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- Type: City with 201,000 residents
- Description: capital city of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Postal codes: 9711-9718, 9721-9728, 9731-9738, and 9741-9747
Places of Interest
Highlights include Euroborg and Martinitoren.
Euroborg
Stadium
Martinitoren
Scenic viewpoint
Groningen railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oosterparkwijk and Hoogkerk.
Hoogkerk
Village
Groningen
Latitude
53.2191° or 53° 13′ 9″ north
Longitude
6.568° or 6° 34′ 5″ east
Population
201,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
GRQ
United Nations Location Code
NL GRQ
Open location code
9F586H99+J6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “خرننغن”
- 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: “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: “ग्रोनिंगन”
- 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)”
- 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”
- “Groningen”
- “ma Koninen”
- “ma Koninken”
- “ma tomo Koninen”
- “ma tomo Koninken”
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