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Berlin is Germany's capital and largest city. Within the city limits, Berlin in 2022 had a population of 3.7 million. Berlin is coming into its own again as a cosmopolitan capital of one of Europe's wealthiest nations.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Mitte and East Central.

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, literally meaning "the middle" and being a contraction of Stadtmitte, contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real centre of the city.

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is a trendy, bohemian, artsy area that consists of Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Wedding and Gesundbrunnen. The western district Kreuzberg was merged with the eastern district Friedrichshain in 2001.

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is the heart of former West Berlin and even after reunification it represents the main retail centre of Berlin — all the best and most expensive shops are here.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as East Berlin and Treptow-Köpenick.

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The East is a district of Berlin. It consists of the boroughs Pankow, Lichtenberg, Hohenschönhausen, Marzahn and Hellersdorf. The most interesting places for tourists are in Lichtenberg: the Stasi relics and museums, the Tierpark and some remarkable architecture such as the Mies van der Rohe house.

is in the southeast of Berlin. Köpenick is known for its old town, its castle and the many lakes and forests. And for the story of The Captain of Köpenick.

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is the sixth borough of Berlin, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of and Zehlendorf.

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The northwest of Berlin consists of the boroughs of Spandau and Reinickendorf was urbanized in the 19th century. Before that, it largely consisted of small towns.

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are two districts in the central south of Berlin.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brandenburg Gate and Pergamon Museum.

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The is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former that marked the start of the road from Berlin to , the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

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The is a listed building on the in the of Berlin, Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style.

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The Fernsehturm in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of Communist power.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wedding and Tiergarten.

Suburb
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is a locality in the borough of , Berlin, Germany. It was a separate borough in the north-western inner city until it was fused with and Mitte in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.

Suburb
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is a locality within the borough of , in central Berlin. Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin.

Suburb
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The is the smallest Ortsteil of Berlin and is between Großer Tiergarten and the Spree River, within the central borough of Berlin. The district was almost completely destroyed during World War II but was rebuilt from 1957 to 1961 as a social housing project by international master architects such as Alvar Aalto, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, and Sep Ruf.

Berlin

Latitude
52.5186° or 52° 31′ 7″ north
Longitude
13.376° or 13° 22′ 34″ east
Population
3,770,000
Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)
IATA airport code
BER
United Nations Location Code
DE BER
Open location code
9F4MG99G+FC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240109189
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2950159
Wiki­data ID
Q64
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Berlin” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Берлин”
  • Achinese: “Berlin”
  • Adyghe: “Берлин”
  • Afrikaans: “Berlyn”
  • Albanian: “Berlin”
  • Albanian: “Berlini”
  • Amharic: “በርሊን”
  • Angika: “बर्लिन”
  • Arabic: “برلين ألمانيا”
  • Arabic: “برلين”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة ألمانيا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة برلين”
  • Arabic: “ولاية برلين”
  • Aragonese: “Berlín”
  • Armenian: “Բեռլին”
  • Arpitan: “Bèrlin”
  • Assamese: “বাৰ্লিন”
  • Asturian: “Berlín”
  • Avaric: “Берлин”
  • Awadhi: “बर्लिन”
  • Aymara: “Berlin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Berlin”
  • Balinese: “Berlin”
  • Balinese: “Bérlin”
  • Bambara: “Berlin”
  • Bashkir: “Берлин”
  • Basque: “Berlin”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Berlin”
  • Bavarian: “Berlin”
  • Belarusian: “Берлін”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрлін”
  • Bengali: “বার্লিন (জার্মানি)”
  • Bengali: “বার্লিন, জার্মানি”
  • Bengali: “বার্লিন”
  • Bengali: “বের্লিন”
  • Betawi: “Berlèn”
  • Bhojpuri: “बरलिन”
  • Bhojpuri: “बर्लिन”
  • Bislama: “Berlin”
  • Bosnian: “Berlin”
  • Brahui: “Barlin”
  • Breton: “Berlin”
  • Bulgarian: “Берлин”
  • Burmese: “ဘာလင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Berlín”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Berlín”
  • Cebuano: “Berlin”
  • Central Bikol: “Berlin”
  • Central Kanuri: “Berlin”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەرلین”
  • Chamorro: “Berlin”
  • Chavacano: “Berlín”
  • Chechen: “Берлин”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎵᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Pek-lîm”
  • Chinese: “柏林”
  • Chinese: “柏林州”
  • Chinese: “柏林市”
  • Church Slavic: “Бєрлинъ”
  • Chuvash: “Берлин”
  • Cornish: “Berlin”
  • Corsican: “Berlinu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Berlin”
  • Croatian: “Berlin”
  • Czech: “Berlín”
  • Dagbani: “Berlin”
  • Danish: “Berlin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Berlin”
  • Dotyali: “बर्लिन”
  • Dutch: “Berlijn”
  • Eastern Mari: “Берлин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيرلين”
  • Erzya: “Берлин ош”
  • Esperanto: “Berlino”
  • Estonian: “Berliin”
  • Ewe: “Berlin”
  • Extremaduran: “Berlín”
  • Faroese: “Berlin”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Berlin”
  • Fijian: “Belini”
  • Fijian: “Berlin”
  • Finnish: “Berliini”
  • French: “Berlin”
  • Friulian: “Berlin”
  • Fulah: “Berlin”
  • Gagauz: “Berlin”
  • Galician: “Berlín”
  • Gan Chinese: “柏林”
  • Ganda: “Berlin, Budaaki”
  • Ganda: “Berlin, Girimane”
  • Ganda: “Berlin”
  • Georgian: “ბერლინი”
  • German: “BE”
  • German: “Berlin (Deutschland)”
  • German: “Berlin, Deutschland”
  • German: “Berlin”
  • German: “Bln.”
  • German: “Bln”
  • German: “Bundeshauptstadt Berlin”
  • German: “DE-BE”
  • German: “Land Berlin”
  • German: “Stadt Berlin”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Berlin”
  • Gilaki: “برلين”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌻𐌹𐌽”
  • Greek: “Βερολίνο”
  • Guarani: “Berlin”
  • Gujarati: “બર્લિન”
  • Haitian: “Bèlen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Berlin”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pak-lìm”
  • Hausa: “Berlin”
  • Hawaiian: “Pelelina”
  • Hebrew: “ברלין”
  • Hindi: “बर्लिन, जर्मनी”
  • Hindi: “बर्लिन”
  • Hungarian: “Berlin”
  • Iban: “Berlin”
  • Icelandic: “Berlín”
  • Ido: “Berlin”
  • Iloko: “Berlin”
  • Inari Sami: “Berlin”
  • Indonesian: “Berlin (Jerman)”
  • Indonesian: “Berlin, Jerman”
  • Indonesian: “Berlin”
  • Ingush: “Берлин”
  • Interlingua: “Berlin”
  • Interlingue: “Berlin”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐱᕐᓖᓐ”
  • Irish: “Beirlín”
  • Italian: “Berlin”
  • Italian: “Berlino”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Boerlin”
  • Japanese: “ベルリン”
  • Japanese: “ベルリン州”
  • Japanese: “伯林”
  • Javanese: “Berlin”
  • Kabardian: “Берлин”
  • Kabiyè: “Pɛrɩlɛɛ”
  • Kabyle: “Berlin”
  • Kalaallisut: “Berlin”
  • Kalmyk: “Берлин балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಲಿನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆರ್ಲಿನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Berlin”
  • Kashmiri: “بٔرلِن”
  • Kashubian: “Berlëno”
  • Kashubian: “Berlin”
  • Kazakh: “Берлин, Біріккен Германия”
  • Kazakh: “Берлин, ГДР”
  • Kazakh: “Берлин”
  • Khmer: “ប៊ែរឡាំង”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Berlin”
  • Kirghiz: “Берлин”
  • Kölsch: “Bälihn”
  • Kölsch: “Berlin”
  • Komering: “Berlin”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Берлин”
  • Komi: “Берлин”
  • Kongo: “Berlin (kizunga)”
  • Kongo: “Berlin”
  • Korean: “베를린”
  • Kotava: “Berlin”
  • Kurdish: “Berlîn”
  • Ladin: “Berlin”
  • Ladino: “Berlin”
  • Lao: “ເບີລິນ”
  • Latgalian: “Berlins”
  • Latin: “Berolinum”
  • Latvian: “Berlīne”
  • Lezghian: “Берлин”
  • Ligurian: “Berlin”
  • Limburgan: “Berlien”
  • Lingala: “Berlin”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Berlin”
  • Literary Chinese: “柏林”
  • Lithuanian: “Berlynas”
  • Livvi: “Berlin”
  • Lojban: “berlin”
  • Lombard: “Berlin”
  • Low German: “Berlien”
  • Low German: “Berlin”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Barliń”
  • Luxembourgish: “Berlin”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Berlin”
  • Macedonian: “Берлин”
  • Maithili: “बर्लिन”
  • Malagasy: “Berlin”
  • Malay: “Berlin”
  • Malay: “برلين”
  • Malayalam: “ബെർലിൻ”
  • Maltese: “Berlin”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯔꯂꯤꯟ, ꯖꯔꯃꯅꯤ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯔꯂꯤꯟ”
  • Manx: “Berleen”
  • Maori: “Pearīni”
  • Marathi: “बर्लिन”
  • Mazanderani: “برلین”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Báik-lìng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Berlin”
  • Minangkabau: “Berlin”
  • Mingrelian: “ბერლინი”
  • Mirandese: “Berlin”
  • Moksha: “Бэрлин”
  • Mongolian: “Берлин”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “برلين”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيرلين”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߍߙߑߟߍ߲߫”
  • Narom: “Bèrlîn”
  • Nauru: “Berlin”
  • Navajo: “Tséítłʼiní Anííkaadii”
  • Neapolitan: “Berlino”
  • Nepali: “बर्लिन”
  • Newari: “बर्लिन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Berlin/sö”
  • Northern Frisian: “Berlin”
  • Northern Luri: “بئرلین”
  • Northern Sami: “Berlin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berlin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berlin”
  • Norwegian: “Berlin”
  • Novial: “Berlin”
  • Nyanja: “Berlin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Berlin”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܠܝܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Berlin”
  • Oriya: “ବର୍ଲିନ”
  • Oromo: “Barliin”
  • Ossetian: “Берлин”
  • Pampanga: “Berlin”
  • Pangasinan: “Berlin”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰਲਿਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Berlin”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Berlin”
  • Persian: “برلین، آلمان”
  • Persian: “برلین”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Balin”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Berlin”
  • Picard: “Berlin”
  • Piemontese: “Berlin”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Berlin”
  • Polish: “Berlin”
  • Pontic: “Βερολίνον”
  • Portuguese: “Berlim”
  • Pushto: “برلين”
  • Quechua: “Berlin”
  • Quechua: “Berlín”
  • Romanian: “Berlin”
  • Romansh: “Berlin”
  • Rundi: “Berlin”
  • Russia Buriat: “Берлин”
  • Russian: “Берлин”
  • Rusyn: “Берлін”
  • Samoan: “Perelini”
  • Samogitian: “Berlīns”
  • Sanskrit: “बर्लिन”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱚᱨᱞᱤᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Berlino”
  • Sardinian: “Berlinu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Berlin”
  • Scots: “Berlin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Berlin”
  • Serbian: “Berlin”
  • Serbian: “Берлин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Berlin”
  • Sicilian: “Birlinu”
  • Silesian: “Berlin”
  • Sindhi: “برلن، جرمني”
  • Sindhi: “برلن”
  • Sinhala: “බර්ලිනය”
  • Sinhala: “බර්ලින් (Berlin)”
  • Sinhala: “බර්ලින්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Berliin”
  • Slovak: “Berlín”
  • Slovenian: “Berlin”
  • Somali: “Baarliin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برلین”
  • Southern Sotho: “Berlin”
  • Spanish: “Berlín, Alemania”
  • Spanish: “Berlin, Deutschland”
  • Spanish: “Berlin”
  • Spanish: “Berlín”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Berlín”
  • Spanish: “DE-BE”
  • Spanish: “Stadt Berlin”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Berlin”
  • Sundanese: “Bérlin, Jérman”
  • Sundanese: “Bérlin”
  • Swahili: “Berlin”
  • Swedish: “Berlin”
  • Swiss German: “Berlin”
  • Tachelhit: “Birlin”
  • Tachelhit: “Brlin”
  • Tagalog: “Berlin”
  • Tahitian: “Berlin”
  • Tajik: “Берлин”
  • Talysh: “Berlin”
  • Tamil: “பெர்லின்”
  • Tamil: “பேர்லின்”
  • Tatar: “Берлин”
  • Telugu: “బెర్లిన్”
  • Tetum: “Berlín”
  • Thai: “เบอร์ลิน (ประเทศเยอรมนี)”
  • Thai: “เบอร์ลิน”
  • Thai: “แบร์ลีน”
  • Tibetan: “པེར་ལིན །”
  • Tibetan: “པེར་ལིན།”
  • Tigrinya: “በርሊን ጀርመን”
  • Tigrinya: “በርሊን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Belin”
  • Tok Pisin: “Berlin”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pēlini”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Berlin”
  • Tumbuka: “Berlin”
  • Turkish: “Berlin”
  • Turkmen: “Berlin”
  • Twi: “Berlin”
  • Twi: “Bɛɛlin”
  • Udmurt: “Берлин”
  • Uighur: “Bérlin”
  • Uighur: “بېرلىن”
  • Ukrainian: “Берлін”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Barlin”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Berlin”
  • Urdu: “برلن”
  • Uzbek: “Berlin”
  • Venetian: “Berlin”
  • Veps: “Berlin”
  • Vietnamese: “Béc-lin”
  • Vietnamese: “Berlin”
  • Vlaams: “Berlyn”
  • Vlax Romani: “Berlin”
  • Volapük: “Berlin”
  • Võro: “Berliin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Berlin”
  • Welsh: “Berlin”
  • Western Armenian: “Պերլին”
  • Western Frisian: “Berlyn”
  • Western Mari: “Берлин”
  • Western Panjabi: “برلن”
  • Wolof: “Berlin”
  • Wu Chinese: “柏林”
  • Xhosa: “I-Berlin”
  • Yakut: “Берлин”
  • Yiddish: “בערלין”
  • Yoruba: “Berlin”
  • Yue Chinese: “柏林”
  • Yue Chinese: “柏林市”
  • Zeeuws: “Berlijn”
  • Zulu: “IBerlini”
  • “Berliin”
  • “Berlin”
  • “Berlîṅ”
  • “Berline”
  • “Berlīns”
  • “ma tomo Pelin”
  • “बर्लिन”

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