Leeuwarden

Leeuwarden, the city in Friesland, the Netherlands

Location

▶ Europe, the Netherlands, the EU, the Eurozone, Western Europe,  …

Benelux, the Northern Hemisphere, Friesland, the Central European Time region, US postal Group 5, the UK European postal area, Eurasia, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Location of

Friesland Bank, Leeuwarder Courant, Slauerhoffbrug, Hanze University Groningen, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof

Population

96,578; 92,203

Area

84.10 square kilometres, 84.1 square kilometres

Births

▶ M. C. Escher, Mata Hari, William IV, Hans Monderman, Saskia van Uylenburg,  …

Theo de Jong, Foeke Booy, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Hans Vredeman de Vries, Richard Hageman, J. Slauerhoff, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dirk Philips, Havank, George Arnold Escher, Tjitske Reidinga, Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn, Piet Wildschut, Cisca Dresselhuys, Bert Sas, Femme Gaastra, Obbe Philips, Hendrik Niehoff, Jan D. Achenbach, Rienk Jelgerhuis, Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, Sijtse Jansma, Tiberius Cornelis Winkler, Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel, Wybrand de Geest, Max Blokzijl, Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen, Dominicus Arumaeus, Campeius Vitringa

Capital of

Friesland

Origin of

Lugubre

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeuwarden

Contents

Friesland Bank

Closest Airport, Nearest Settlement of

Leeuwarden Air Base

Deaths

▶ Albertine Agnes of Nassau; William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg; Henry Casimir II of Nassau-Diez; Klaas de Vries; Wybrand de Geest;  …

Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel

Coordinates

53°11'50"N, 53°12'00"N, 5°47'33"E, 5°47'60"E, 5°47'24"E

Residents

▶ M. C. Escher, Mata Hari, William IV, Hans Monderman, Saskia van Uylenburg,  …

Menno van Coehoorn, Jeronimus Cornelisz, Querelle Jansen, Theo de Jong, Foeke Booy, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Hans Vredeman de Vries, Richard Hageman, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, George Arnold Escher, Tjitske Reidinga, Diederik Samsom, Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn, Wilhelmus à Brakel, Richard Schuil, Piet Wildschut, Cisca Dresselhuys, Bert Sas, Harm Wiersma, Piter Wilkens, Femme Gaastra, Jacob Baart de la Faille, Obbe Philips, Hendrik Niehoff, Sijtse Jansma, Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen, Campeius Vitringa, Willem van Haren, Dominicus Arumaeus

Land area

79.74 square kilometres

Class

▶ settlement, city, Dutch gemeente, populated place, administrative area within a nation above city-level,  …

university city, geographical area

Water area

4.36 square kilometres

Websites

http://www.stichtingbonifatiustoren.nl, http://www.leeuwarden.nl

Gns Unique Feature Identifier

"-2148497"

Open Calais URI

http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/34281eb4-7f71-da0a-3f9b-41cde7f1bc7a

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000005b718"

GeoNames URL

http://sws.geonames.org/2751792/

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Leeuwarden

Met Office ID

"4544"

Time Zone Area

the Central European Time region

Rare Terms

"leeuwarden werpsterhoek", "achter de hoven"

Related Websites

http://livingleeuwarden.nl

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/0cfss"