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Fun fact 4 about Nijmegen

Skyline Nijmegen. Gelderland. Netherlands
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The city is home to Radboud University, founded in 1923 as the first Catholic university in the Netherlands.

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Nijmegen

Netherlands

Country
Netherlands
Population
179.1K
Coordinates
51.81, 5.84
855th most populous city in the world

Nijmegen is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands and the first to be recognized as such in Roman times.

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