Bamberg
Bamberg is a Landkreis in Bavaria, Germany. It surrounds but does not include the town of Bamberg. The district is bounded by the districts of Lichtenfels, Bayreuth, Forchheim, Erlangen-Höchstadt, Neustadt -Bad Windsheim, Kitzingen, Schweinfurt and Haßberge.- Type: County with 147,000 residents
- Description: Administrative district in Bavaria, Germany, established in 1939 as successor to Bezirksamt Bamberg
- Also known as: “Bamberg (Kreis)”, “Bamberg County”, “Bamberg County District”, “Bamberg County Office”, “Bamberg District (historic)”, “Bamberg Rural District”, “Deželno okrožje Bamberg”, “Kreis de Bamberg (historique)”, and “Zemský okres Bamberg”
- Neighbors: Bamberg and Haßberge
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bamberg Cathedral and Bamberg State Library.
Bamberg Cathedral
Church
Altenburg
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bamberg and Stegaurach.
Bamberg
- Categories: District of Bavaria, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Upper Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.8632° or 49° 51′ 47″ north
Longitude
10.8786° or 10° 52′ 43″ east
Population
147,000
Elevation
237 metres (778 feet)
Open location code
8FXGVV7H+7C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bamberg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة بامبيرغ”
- Aragonese: “Districto de Bamberg”
- Armenian: “Բամբերգ”
- Basque: “Bamberg”
- Bavarian: “Landkroas Bamberg”
- Belarusian: “Бамберг”
- Belarusian: “Бамбэрг”
- Belarusian: “Раён Бамберг”
- Catalan: “districte de Bamberg”
- Cebuano: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Chinese: “班贝格县”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Bamberk”
- Danish: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Dutch: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Bamberg”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Bamberg”
- Finnish: “Bambergin piirikunta”
- French: “arrondissement de Bamberg”
- French: “Arrondissement de Bamberg”
- Georgian: “ბამბერგის რაიონი”
- German: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Hebrew: “מחוז במברג”
- Hungarian: “Bamberg járás”
- Indonesian: “Bamberg”
- Interlingue: “Subdistrict Bamberg”
- Italian: “circondario di Bamberga”
- Italian: “Circondario di Bamberga”
- Japanese: “バンベルク郡”
- Kazakh: “Бамберг”
- Korean: “밤베르크군”
- Kurdish: “Bamberg (navçe)”
- Kurdish: “Bamberg”
- Ladin: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Lombard: “Bamberga”
- Macedonian: “Бамберг”
- Malay: “Bamberg”
- Maltese: “Distrett ta‘ Bamberg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bamberg Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Bamberg (Lönjkris)”
- Northern Frisian: “Bamberg”
- Persian: “بامبرگ”
- Polish: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Portuguese: “Bamberg”
- Portuguese: “Bamberga”
- Romanian: “Bamberg”
- Romanian: “Districtul Bamberg”
- Russian: “Бамберг”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bamberg”
- Slovenian: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Spanish: “Bamberg”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Bamberg”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Turkish: “Bamberg”
- Turkish: “Landkreis Bamberg”
- Ukrainian: “Бамберг”
- Urdu: “بامبرگ (ضلع)”
- Urdu: “بامبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Bamberg”
- Vietnamese: “Bamberg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bamberg”
- Western Frisian: “Bamberg”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع بامبرگ”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Waizendorf and Babenberger Viertel.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Kapelle Klinikum Bruderwald and Klinikum Bamberg.
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Worth a closer look: Bamberg and Bayreuth.
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