Fenland vs Groningen

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enland may mean: Fenland, or the Fens, an area of low-lying land in eastern England Fenland District, a local authority district in Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, forming part of the Fens Fenland Airfield, an airfield near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, in the Fens Fenland or fen, a wetland habitat, composed tall grasses and sedges growing in shallow water Fenlands (film), a 1945 British film directed by Ken Annakin The Fenland Trail, a trail near the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada

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Groningen (, also UK: , US: , Dutch: [ˈɣroːnɪŋə(n)] (listen); Gronings: Grun'n) is the main municipality as well as the capital city of the eponymous province in the Netherlands. It is the largest city in the north of the Netherlands and has 231,037 inhabitants (31 January 2019) on a total area of 180.21 km2 (69.58 sq mi), and land area of 168.93 km2 (65.22 sq mi) with a population density of 1,367 per km2 (3,540 per square mile).

It merged with Ten Boer and Haren municipalities on 1 January 2019. The Groningen-Assen metropolitan area has about half a million inhabitants. Groningen is an old city (more than 950 years) and was the regional power of the north of the Netherlands, a semi-independent city-state and member of the German Hanseatic League. Groningen is a university city, with students forming an estimated 25% of its total population.

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