Groningen

Groningen is a lively student city in the . It is the capital of a 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
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Euroborg and Martinitoren.

Stadium
is the in Groningen, Netherlands. It is the home ground of football club FC Groningen, with a capacity of 22,525. The stadium site houses a casino, movie theater, school, supermarket, and a fitness centre.

Scenic viewpoint
The is the tallest church steeple in the city of Groningen, , and the bell tower of the . The tower is located at the north-eastern corner of the Grote Markt.

Railway station
, locally called Hoofdstation, is the main railway station in Groningen in the Province of Groningen, . It is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between and , on the Meppel–Groningen railway as terminus after Groningen Europapark, and on the Groningen–Delfzijl railway as terminus after .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oosterparkwijk and Selwerd.

Quarter
is a quarter.

Hamlet
is a hamlet.

Town
Photo: Iijjccoo, Public domain.
is a town.

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
node 3125538288
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2755251
Wiki­data ID
Q749
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Groningen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Groningen
  • Albanian: Groningen
  • Arabic: خرننغن
  • Arabic: خَرُنِنغِن
  • Arabic: خرونينغن
  • Aragonese: Groningen
  • Armenian: Գրոնինգեն
  • Asturian: Groningen
  • Azerbaijani: Qroningen
  • Basque: Groningen
  • Belarusian: Гронінген (горад)
  • Belarusian: Гронінген (места)
  • Belarusian: Гронінген
  • Bengali: খ্রোনিঙেন
  • 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 - Groningen
  • Galician: Groninga
  • Georgian: გრონინგენი
  • German: Groningen
  • Greek: Χρόνινγκεν
  • Gujarati: ગ્રૉનિન્જેન
  • 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: ಗ್ರೊನಿನ್ಗೆನ್
  • Kazakh: Гронинген
  • Korean: 흐로닝언
  • Kurdish: 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
  • Ossetian: Гронинген
  • Papiamento: Groningen
  • Persian: خرونینگن
  • Polish: Groningen
  • Portuguese: Groninga
  • Portuguese: Groningen
  • Pushto: خرونینګن
  • 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
  • Spanish: Groninga
  • Spanish: Groningen
  • Swahili: Groningen
  • Swedish: Groningen
  • Tajik: Вилояти Гронинген
  • Tamil: கிரோனின்ஜென்
  • Tatar: Грониңен
  • Telugu: గ్రానిన్జేన్
  • Thai: โกรนิงเกน
  • Thai: โกรนิงเงิน
  • Turkish: Groningen
  • Twi: Groningen
  • Ukrainian: Гронінген
  • Urdu: خرونیگین
  • 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
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