Bonn
The federal city of Bonn is one of the largest cities in the Cologne Lowland, second only to Cologne in population, with 330,000 residents in 2020. Despite the size, it maintains a cosy, relaxed atmosphere of a small town, featuring mostly low-rise buildings, a charming old town and a lot of greenery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 336,000 residents
- Description: city in Germany and capital of former West Germany
- Also known as: “Bonn, Germany”, “Bonn, West Germany”, and “Federal City of Bonn”
- Neighbors: Bad Honnef, Königswinter, Remagen, Sankt Augustin, and Troisdorf
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beethoven House and Museum Koenig Bonn.
Beethoven House
Museum
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany, is a memorial site, museum, and cultural institution serving various purposes. Founded in 1889 by the Beethoven-Haus association, it studies the life and work of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Museum Koenig Bonn
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum Koenig Bonn, formerly Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, is a natural history museum and zoological research institution in Bonn, Germany.
Bonn Minster
Church
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Bonn Minster is a Catholic church in Bonn. It is one of Germany's oldest churches, having been built between the 11th and 13th centuries. At one point the church served as the de facto cathedral for the Archbishopric of Cologne, because it is the major church of what was then the Archbishop-Elector's residence.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beuel and Endenich.
Beuel
Suburb
Photo: AKirch-Bonn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beuel is a city borough of Bonn, Germany. It has a population of 67,827.
Endenich
Quarter
Photo: Mrhubble, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Endenich is a neighborhood in the western part of Bonn, Germany. Before 1904 it was an independent municipality. The village of Endenich was founded in the 8th century, and was first mentioned in 804 as Antiniche. Today, about 12,000 people live in Endenich.
Kessenich
Quarter
Kessenich is a district of the former German capital city Bonn. It is best known for the German confectionery company Haribo.
Bonn
- Categories: big city, major regional center, seat of government, residenz, college town, federal city, urban district of North Rhine-Westphalia, urban municipality in Germany, former national capital, national capital, and locality
- Location: Cologne District, Cologne Lowland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.7353° or 50° 44′ 7″ northLongitude
7.1025° or 7° 6′ 9″ eastPopulation
336,000Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)IATA airport code
BNJUnited Nations Location Code
DE BONOpen location code
9F29P4P2+4XOpenStreetMap ID
node 26373169OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2946447Wikidata ID
Q586
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bonn” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bonn”
- Albanian: “Boni”
- Amharic: “ቦን”
- Arabic: “بون”
- Aragonese: “Bonn”
- Armenian: “Բոնն”
- Arpitan: “Bonn”
- Asturian: “Bonn”
- Aymara: “Bonn”
- Azerbaijani: “Bonn”
- Azerbaijani: “بن”
- Balinese: “Bonn”
- Bashkir: “Бонн”
- Basque: “Bonn”
- Bavarian: “Bonn”
- Belarusian: “Бон (Нямеччына)”
- Belarusian: “Бон”
- Bengali: “বন, জার্মানি”
- Bengali: “বন”
- Bosnian: “Bonn”
- Breton: “Bonn”
- Bulgarian: “Бон”
- Catalan: “Bonn”
- Cebuano: “Bonn”
- Central Kurdish: “بۆن، ئەڵمانیا”
- Chechen: “Бонн”
- Chinese: “Bonn”
- Chinese: “波恩”
- Chinese: “波恩聯邦市”
- Chinese: “波昂”
- Chinese: “波昂聯邦市”
- Chuvash: “Бонн”
- Cornish: “Bonn”
- Corsican: “Bonn”
- Croatian: “Bonn”
- Czech: “Bonn”
- Danish: “Bonn”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bonn”
- Dutch: “Bonn”
- Eastern Mari: “Бонн”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بون (المانيا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بون”
- Esperanto: “Bonn”
- Esperanto: “Bonno”
- Esperanto: “Bono”
- Estonian: “Bonn”
- Extremaduran: “Bonn”
- Faroese: “Bonn”
- Fijian: “Bonn”
- Finnish: “Bonn”
- French: “Bonn”
- French: “Ville fédérale de Bonn”
- Friulian: “Bonn”
- Galician: “Bon”
- Galician: “Bonn”
- Georgian: “ბონი”
- German: “Bonn”
- German: “Bundesstadt Bonn”
- Gilaki: “بؤن”
- Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌽”
- Greek: “Βόννη”
- Gujarati: “બોન”
- Hebrew: “בון”
- Hindi: “बॉन”
- Hungarian: “Bonn”
- Icelandic: “Bonn”
- Ido: “Bonn”
- Inari Sami: “Bonn”
- Indonesian: “Bonn”
- Interlingua: “Bonn”
- Interlingue: “Bonn”
- Irish: “Bonn”
- Italian: “Bonn”
- Japanese: “ボン”
- Japanese: “ボン連邦市”
- Japanese: “連邦都市ボン”
- Javanese: “Bonn”
- Kalo Finnish Romani: “Bonn”
- Kannada: “ಬಾನ್ನ್”
- Kannada: “ಬೋನ್”
- Kazakh: “Бонн”
- Kildin Sami: “Бонн”
- Kirghiz: “Бонн”
- Kölsch: “Bonn”
- Kongo: “Bonn”
- Korean: “본”
- Kotava: “Bonn”
- Kurdish: “Bonn”
- Ladin: “Bonn”
- Latin: “Bonna”
- Latvian: “Bonna”
- Ligurian: “Bonn”
- Limburgan: “Bonn”
- Lithuanian: “Bona”
- Lombard: “Bonn”
- Low German: “Bonn”
- Lule Sami: “Bonn”
- Luxembourgish: “Bonn”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bonn”
- Macedonian: “Бон”
- Malagasy: “Bonn”
- Malay: “Bonn”
- Malayalam: “ബോൺ”
- Maltese: “Bonn”
- Manx: “Bonn”
- Marathi: “बॉन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bonn”
- Minangkabau: “Bonn”
- Mongolian: “Бонн”
- Narom: “Bonn”
- Neapolitan: “Bonn”
- Nepali: “बोन”
- Northern Frisian: “Bonn”
- Northern Sami: “Bonn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bonn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bonn”
- Norwegian: “Bonn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bonn”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bonceaster”
- Ossetian: “Бонн”
- Panjabi: “ਬੌਨ”
- Persian: “بن”
- Picard: “Bonn”
- Piemontese: “Bonn”
- Pite Sami: “Bonn”
- Polish: “Bonn”
- Portuguese: “Bona”
- Portuguese: “Bonn”
- Pushto: “بون”
- Quechua: “Bonn”
- Romanian: “Bonn”
- Romansh: “Bonn”
- Russian: “Бонн”
- Sardinian: “Bonn”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bonn”
- Scots: “Bonn, Wast Germany”
- Scots: “Bonn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bonn”
- Serbian: “Bonn”
- Serbian: “Бон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bonn”
- Sicilian: “Bonn”
- Silesian: “Bonn”
- Sindhi: “بون”
- Sinhala: “බොන”
- Skolt Sami: “Bonn”
- Slovak: “Bonn”
- Slovenian: “Bonn”
- Slovenian: “Bundesstadt Bonn”
- Slovenian: “Zvezno mesto Bonn”
- South Azerbaijani: “بون”
- Southern Sami: “Bonn”
- Spanish: “Bon (Alemania occidental)”
- Spanish: “Bona (Alemania)”
- Spanish: “Bona”
- Spanish: “Bonn”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Federal de Bona”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Federal de Bonn”
- Swahili: “Bonn”
- Swedish: “Bonn”
- Swiss German: “Bonn”
- Tagalog: “Bonn”
- Tajik: “Бонн”
- Talysh: “Bonn”
- Tamil: “பான்”
- Tatar: “Бонн”
- Telugu: “బాన్”
- Telugu: “బొన్”
- Tetum: “Bonn”
- Thai: “บ็อน”
- Thai: “บอนน์”
- Tibetan: “བྷོ་ཨིན།”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Bonn”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bonn”
- Tumbuka: “Bonn”
- Turkish: “Bonn”
- Turkish: “Bundesstadt Bonn”
- Twi: “Bonn”
- Udmurt: “Бонн”
- Uighur: “Bonn”
- Ukrainian: “Бонн”
- Ume Sami: “Bonn”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bonn”
- Urdu: “بون”
- Urdu: “بونن”
- Uzbek: “Bonn”
- Venetian: “Bonn”
- Veps: “Bonn”
- Vietnamese: “Bonn”
- Vlaams: “Bonn”
- Volapük: “Bonn”
- Walloon: “Bonn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bonn”
- Welsh: “Bonn”
- Western Frisian: “Bonn”
- Western Panjabi: “بون”
- Wolof: “Bonn”
- Wu Chinese: “波恩”
- Yiddish: “באן, דייטשלאנד”
- Yiddish: “באן”
- Yue Chinese: “波恩”
- Zulu: “Bonn”
- “Bonn”
- “ma tomo Pon”
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