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Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is Germany's second-largest city and, at the same time, one of Germany's 16 federal states or Bundesländer. Prior to the formation of the modern German state, Hamburg for centuries enjoyed a status as de facto independent city state and regional power and trade hub in the North Sea.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Elbe Philharmonic Hall and Speicherstadt.

Theater building
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Elbphilharmonie, popularly nicknamed Elphi, is a concert hall in the quarter of , Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the River.

Photo: Wmeinhart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The in , , is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations—oak logs, in this particular case.

Photo: Gulp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Miniatur Wunderland is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. It is located at the historic in and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Altona-St. Pauli and Neustadt-Altstadt.

Altona and St. Pauli are west of central . Altona used to be an independent city and emerged as fisherman's village in the 16th century. It existed under Danish rule west of Hamburg, competing with it in trade and militarily.

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The city centre of is formed by the districts of Altstadt and Neustadt, as well as the new district of Hafencity immediately south of Altstadt.

Eastern includes the dense, LGBT-friendly district St. Georg filled with cozy narrow streets between the dense, 19th-century tenements, with its cafe-filled main street of Lange Reihe, as well as a part of lake Aussenalster's shoreline with the venerable Hotel Atlantic.

Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt

Latitude
53.55° or 53° 33′ north
Longitude
10° east
Population
1,860,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
Open location code
9F5GH222+22
Geo­Names ID
6547395
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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mönckebergstraße and Meßberg station.

Hamburg: Must-Visit Destinations

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt”. Photo: Joerg Moellenkamp, CC BY 2.0.