Wageningen is a municipality and a historical town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is famous for Wageningen University, which is specialised in life sciences. The city has 34,348 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2006), of which many thousands are students. The university and associated research institutes employ about 7400 people. Wageningen also is the central city in Food Valley. Food Valley is the Dutch food & nutrition cluster concentrated around Wageningen University and comprising of many institutes, companies and state-of-the-art facilities in the food & nutrition field. Food Valley is regarded as the largest food & nutrition R&D cluster in the world.