The Netherlands
Groningen population
244,807people · latest figure
Groningen has a population of 244,807, making it the 5th largest place we list in The Netherlands.
Groningen holds 1.3% of The Netherlands's 18,448,775 people. Rotterdam, the largest place we list there, is 3.5 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 181,194, a rise of 35%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | North Holland | 741,636 |
| The Hague | South Holland | 474,292 |
| Utrecht | Utrecht | 376,435 |
| Eindhoven | North Brabant | 235,691 |
| Tilburg | North Brabant | 221,947 |
| Breda | North Brabant | 184,126 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.