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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Wutsje, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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.
Euroborg
Stadium
Photo: Kevster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Euroborg is the stadium 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.
Martinitoren
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Ra-smit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Martinitoren is the tallest church steeple in the city of Groningen, Netherlands, and the bell tower of the Martinikerk. The tower is located at the north-eastern corner of the Grote Markt.
Groningen railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wutsje, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Groningen railway station, locally called Hoofdstation, is the main railway station in Groningen in the Province of Groningen, Netherlands. It is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between Zuidhorn and Groningen Europapark, on the Meppel–Groningen railway as terminus after Groningen Europapark, and on the Groningen–Delfzijl railway as terminus after Groningen Noord.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oosterparkwijk and Selwerd.
Groningen
Latitude
53.2191° or 53° 13′ 9″ northLongitude
6.568° or 6° 34′ 5″ eastPopulation
201,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)IATA airport code
GRQUnited Nations Location Code
NL GRQOpen location code
9F586H99+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3125538288OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2755251Wikidata 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”
- “ma Koninen”
- “ma Koninken”
- “ma tomo Koninen”
- “ma tomo Koninken”
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