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Wageningen - Definition and Overview

Wageningen

Location municipality Wageningen

Country Netherlands
Province Gelderland
Area
- Land
- Water
32.35 km²
30.53 km²
1.82 km²
Population (2004)
- Density
35,137
1151/km²

Wageningen is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands. It lies on the north bank of the Rhine.

It received city rights in 1263.

Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen was in 1945 the site of the capitulation of the German troups in the Netherlands, and the end of German occupation during World War II. This fact is remembered annually.

Wageningen hosts the Wageningen University and Research Center, or Wageningen UR, which is often referred to as the Wageningen University.

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Province Gelderland

Aalten | Apeldoorn | Arnhem | Barneveld | Berkelland | Beuningen | Bronckhorst | Brummen | Buren | Culemborg | Doesburg | Doetinchem | Druten | Duiven | Ede | Elburg | Epe | Ermelo | Geldermalsen | Groenlo | Groesbeek | Harderwijk | Hattem | Heerde | Heumen | Lingewaal | Lingewaard | Lochem | Maasdriel | Millingen aan de Rijn | Montferland | Neder-Betuwe | Neerijnen | Nijkerk | Nijmegen | Nunspeet | Oldebroek | Oude IJsselstreek | Overbetuwe | Putten | Renkum | Rheden | Rijnwaarden | Rozendaal | Scherpenzeel | Tiel | Ubbergen | Voorst | Wageningen | West Maas en Waal | Westervoort | Wijchen | Winterswijk | Zaltbommel | Zevenaar | Zutphen


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