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Groningen

Groningen is the northeasternmost province in the Netherlands. It is mainly agricultural with its capital, also called , as the only big city around.
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is a lively student city in the . 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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is a pleasant harbour city on the northern coast of the . It's in the north-eastern part of Groningen Province and is home to some 20,000 people.

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is a small city in Groningen, one of the northern provinces of The Netherlands. It has just over 12.000 inhabitants and is one of the main destinations for tourists in the region.

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is a municipality in the east of the province of Groningen, in the Netherlands, bordering the region of Germany. used to be the granary of the Netherlands, and is now known for its landscape with yellow fields of rapeseed, its canals and lakes, and in the north the Dollard bay coast.

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is a region and municipality in the west of the province of Groningen, in the Netherlands. The northern part, around the town of Zuidhorn, consists mainly of a marsh landscape with wierden.

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is a municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. The region consists of more than 20 towns and villages, of which the largest is Hoogezand.

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Established during the Eighty Years' War, the fortified town of is a charming destination in the region of the , right on the border with .

The or Peat District is a region in the southeast of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. The region used to be uncultivated land, but starting in the 16th and 17th centuries the city of Groningen started to colonise more and more of the area for the extraction of peat, to be used as fuel.

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or Hoogeland is a region in the north of the province of Groningen in the . The borders of the historical region are not well-defined, but generally it refers to the parts of the province north of the Reitdiep river and Damsterdiep canal, or simply north of .

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is a region in the southeast of in Groningen province in the Netherlands. The region consists of the municipalities of Vlagtwedde and Bellingwedde, that plan to merge and become the municipality of in 2018.

Groningen

Latitude of center
53.344° or 53° 20′ 38″ north
Longitude of center
6.7651° or 6° 45′ 55″ east
Population
586,000
Elevation
-4 metres (-13 feet)
Operator
Provincie Groningen
Abbreviation
“gr”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4289960494
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2755249
Wiki­data ID
Q752
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Groningen” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Groningen”
  • Afrikaans: “Groningen”
  • Albanian: “Groningen”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة خرننغن”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة خَرُنِنغِن”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة خرونينغن”
  • Aragonese: “Provincia de Groningen”
  • Armenian: “Խրոնինգեն”
  • Asturian: “Groningen (provincia)”
  • Asturian: “Groningen”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Groningen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qroninqen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xroninqen”
  • Balinese: “Groningen (propinsi)”
  • Balinese: “Groningen”
  • Basque: “Groningen”
  • Belarusian: “Гронінген (правінцыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Гронінген”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Гронінген”
  • Bengali: “গ্রোনিনজেন”
  • Breton: “Groningen”
  • Bulgarian: “Гронинген”
  • Catalan: “Província de Groningen”
  • Cebuano: “Provincie Groningen”
  • Chinese: “Groningen Séng”
  • Chinese: “古羅寧亨”
  • Chinese: “格罗宁根省”
  • Chuvash: “Гронинген”
  • Croatian: “Groningen (pokrajina)”
  • Croatian: “Groningen”
  • Czech: “Groningen”
  • Danish: “Groningen”
  • Dutch: “GR”
  • Dutch: “Groningen (provincie)”
  • Dutch: “Groningen”
  • Dutch: “provincie Groningen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرونينجين”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة خرونينجين”
  • Esperanto: “Groningo”
  • Estonian: “Groningeni provints”
  • Faroese: “Groningen”
  • Finnish: “Groningen”
  • French: “Groningue”
  • French: “La province de Groningue”
  • French: “Province de Groningue”
  • Galician: “Groninga”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Groninga”
  • Galician: “Provincie Groningen”
  • Georgian: “გრონინგენის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Groningen”
  • German: “Provinz Groningen”
  • Greek: “Χρόνινγκεν”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્રૉનિન્જેન”
  • Hebrew: “חרונינגן”
  • Hindi: “ग्रोनिंगन”
  • Hungarian: “Groningen”
  • Icelandic: “Groningen”
  • Ido: “Groningen”
  • Indonesian: “Groningen”
  • Interlingua: “Groninga”
  • Interlingua: “Groningen”
  • Irish: “Groningen”
  • Italian: “Groninga”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Groningen”
  • Japanese: “フローニンゲン州”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi Groningen”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರೊನಿನ್ಗೆನ್”
  • Kölsch: “Groningen”
  • Korean: “흐로닝언 주”
  • Korean: “흐로닝언”
  • Korean: “흐로닝언주”
  • Kurdish: “Groningen (parêzgeh)”
  • Kurdish: “Groningen”
  • Latin: “Groninga”
  • Latvian: “Groningena”
  • Limburgan: “Groninge”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Groningen”
  • Lithuanian: “Groningeno provincija”
  • Low German: “Grunnen”
  • Low German: “Provinz Grunneng”
  • Luxembourgish: “Provënz Groningen”
  • Macedonian: “Гронинген”
  • Malay: “Groningen”
  • Manx: “Groningen”
  • Marathi: “ग्रोनिंगन”
  • Mazanderani: “خرونینگن (استان)”
  • Mazanderani: “خرونینگن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Groningen Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Groningen”
  • Nepali: “ग्रोनिजेन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Groningen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Groningen (provins)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Groningen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Groningen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Groningen”
  • Norwegian: “Groningen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Groninga”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Groninga”
  • Ossetian: “Гронинген”
  • Persian: “خرونینگن”
  • Polish: “Groningen”
  • Portuguese: “Groninga”
  • Portuguese: “Groningen”
  • Quechua: “Groningen pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Groningen”
  • Russian: “Гронинген”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Groningerlound”
  • Scots: “Groningen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Groningen”
  • Serbian: “Гронинген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Groningen”
  • Sinhala: “ග්රෝනින්ජෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Groningen”
  • Slovenian: “Groningen”
  • Somali: “Groningen”
  • Spanish: “Groninga”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Groninga”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Groningen”
  • Swedish: “Groningen”
  • Tamil: “கிரோனிஞென்”
  • Tamil: “குரோணிங்கென்”
  • Tamil: “குரோனிங்கன்”
  • Telugu: “గ్రోనింగెన్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโกรนิงเงิน”
  • Turkish: “Groningen”
  • Ukrainian: “Гронінген”
  • Urdu: “خرونیگین”
  • Uzbek: “Groningen (provinsiya)”
  • Uzbek: “Groningen”
  • Venetian: “Groninga (provinsa)”
  • Venetian: “Groninga”
  • Vietnamese: “Groningen”
  • Vlaams: “Groniengn”
  • Vlaams: “Groningen”
  • Volapük: “Groningen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Groningen”
  • Welsh: “Groningen”
  • Western Frisian: “Grinslân”
  • Wu Chinese: “格罗宁根省”
  • Yue Chinese: “古羅寧亨”
  • Zeeuws: “Greunienge”
  • “Grunìnga”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Groningen”. Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.