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City state Bremen

Bremen

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is a city in northern with a major port on the River Weser. The population is 567,000. It is also the name of one of the states of Germany which consists of two separated enclaves on the River Weser; the other enclave, , is covered by its own article.
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  • Type: City with 551,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Bremen federated state, Germany
  • Also known as: “City Municipality of Bremen”, “Freie Hansestadt Bremen”, and “Hansestadt Bremen”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roland and Kunsthalle Bremen.

Photo: Godewind, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
The Bremen is a statue of , erected in 1404. It stands in the market square of Bremen, Germany, facing the cathedral, and shows , paladin of the first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and hero of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.

Museum
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The is an art museum in Bremen, . It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile". The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded several more times, most notably in 2011.

Church
Photo: Ulamm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bremen Cathedral, named after St. Peter, is a church situated in the market square in the center of Bremen. The cathedral belongs to the Bremian Evangelical Church, a member of the umbrella organization Evangelical Church in Germany.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neustadt and Schwachhausen.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Bremen

Latitude
53.0758° or 53° 4′ 33″ north
Longitude
8.8072° or 8° 48′ 26″ east
Population
551,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
BRE
United Nations Location Code
DE BRE
Open location code
9F5C3RG4+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20982927
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2944388
Wiki­data ID
Q24879
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bremen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bremen”
  • Albanian: “Bremeni”
  • Amharic: “ብሬመን”
  • Arabic: “بريمن”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بريمن”
  • Aragonese: “Bremen”
  • Armenian: “Բրեմեն”
  • Arpitan: “Bremen”
  • Asturian: “Bremen”
  • Aymara: “Bremen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bremen”
  • Balinese: “Brémen”
  • Basque: “Bremen hiria”
  • Basque: “Bremen”
  • Bavarian: “Bremen”
  • Belarusian: “Брэмен”
  • Belarusian: “Брэмэн”
  • Bengali: “ব্রেমেন”
  • Bosnian: “Bremen”
  • Breton: “Bremen”
  • Bulgarian: “Бремен”
  • Burmese: “ဘရီမန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bremen”
  • Cebuano: “Bremen (kapital sa estado pederal)”
  • Cebuano: “Bremen”
  • Central Kurdish: “برێمن”
  • Chechen: “Бремен”
  • Chinese: “Bremen”
  • Chinese: “不來梅”
  • Chinese: “不来梅”
  • Chinese: “不来梅市”
  • Chinese: “不萊梅”
  • Chinese: “伯磊門”
  • Chinese: “勒讷贝克”
  • Chinese: “布萊梅”
  • Chuvash: “Бремен”
  • Cornish: “Bremen”
  • Corsican: “Brema”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bremen”
  • Croatian: “Bremen”
  • Czech: “Bremen”
  • Czech: “Brémy”
  • Danish: “Bremen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bremen”
  • Dutch: “Bremen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريمن”
  • Esperanto: “Bremen”
  • Esperanto: “Bremeno”
  • Estonian: “Bremen”
  • Extremaduran: “Bremen”
  • Finnish: “Bremen”
  • French: “Brême”
  • French: “Bremen”
  • French: “Hansestadt Bremen”
  • Friulian: “Bremen”
  • Galician: “Bremen”
  • Georgian: “ბრემენი”
  • German: “Bremen”
  • German: “Hansestadt Bremen”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐌴𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐌴𐌼𐌴𐌽”
  • Greek: “Βρέμη”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રેમેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bremen”
  • Hausa: “Bremen”
  • Hebrew: “ברמן”
  • Hindi: “ब्रेमेन”
  • Hungarian: “Bréma Hanza-város”
  • Hungarian: “Bréma”
  • Icelandic: “Bremen”
  • Ido: “Bremen”
  • Iloko: “Bremen”
  • Indonesian: “Bremen”
  • Interlingua: “Bremen”
  • Interlingue: “Bremen”
  • Irish: “Bremen”
  • Italian: “Brema”
  • Japanese: “ブレーメン”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಮೆನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೇಮೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bremen”
  • Kazakh: “Бремен”
  • Kirghiz: “Бремен”
  • Kölsch: “Breme”
  • Kölsch: “Bremen”
  • Kongo: “Bremen”
  • Korean: “브레멘”
  • Kotava: “Bremen”
  • Kurdish: “Bremen”
  • Ladin: “Bremen”
  • Latin: “Brema”
  • Latvian: “Brēmene”
  • Ligurian: “Brema”
  • Ligurian: “Bremen”
  • Limburgan: “Breme”
  • Lithuanian: “Brėmenas”
  • Lombard: “Brema”
  • Low German: “Breemn”
  • Low German: “Bremen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Brema”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bremen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bremen”
  • Macedonian: “Бремен”
  • Malagasy: “Bremen”
  • Malay: “Bremen”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രമൻ”
  • Maltese: “Bremen”
  • Manx: “Bremen”
  • Marathi: “ब्रेमन”
  • Marathi: “ब्रेमेन”
  • Mazanderani: “برمن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bremen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bremen”
  • Minangkabau: “Bremen”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრემენი”
  • Moksha: “Брэмэн”
  • Mongolian: “Бремен”
  • Narom: “Bremen”
  • Neapolitan: “Bremen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bremen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bremen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bremen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Bremen”
  • Norwegian: “Bremen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brèma”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bremen”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bremeneburg”
  • Ossetian: “Бремен”
  • Pampanga: “Bremen”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰੇਮਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Bremen”
  • Persian: “برمن”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Bremä”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Bremen”
  • Picard: “Bremen”
  • Piemontese: “Brema”
  • Piemontese: “Bremen”
  • Polish: “Brema”
  • Polish: “Bremen”
  • Portuguese: “Bremen”
  • Portuguese: “Hansestadt Bremen”
  • Quechua: “Bremen”
  • Romanian: “Bremen”
  • Romanian: “Municipalitatea orașului Bremen”
  • Romanian: “orașul hanseatic Bremen”
  • Romansh: “Bremen”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бремен”
  • Russian: “Бремен”
  • Sardinian: “Brema”
  • Scots: “Bremen”
  • Scots: “Ceety Municipality o Bremen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bremen”
  • Serbian: “Bremen”
  • Serbian: “Бремен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bremen”
  • Sicilian: “Bremen”
  • Silesian: “Bremen”
  • Sindhi: “بريمن”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රේමන්”
  • Slovak: “Brémy”
  • Slovenian: “Bremen”
  • Slovenian: “Hansestadt Bremen”
  • Slovenian: “Hanzeatsko mesto Bremen”
  • Somali: “Bremen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برمن”
  • Spanish: “Brema”
  • Spanish: “Bremen”
  • Swahili: “Bremen”
  • Swedish: “Bremen”
  • Swiss German: “Bremen”
  • Tagalog: “Bremen”
  • Talysh: “Bremen”
  • Tamil: “பிரேமன்”
  • Tatar: “Bremen”
  • Tatar: “Бремен”
  • Telugu: “బ్రెమన్”
  • Thai: “เบรเมิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bremen”
  • Tumbuka: “Bremen”
  • Turkish: “Bremen”
  • Turkish: “Hansestadt Bremen”
  • Twi: “Bremen”
  • Uighur: “Brémén”
  • Ukrainian: “Бремен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bremen”
  • Urdu: “بریمین”
  • Uzbek: “Bremen”
  • Venetian: “Bremen”
  • Veps: “Bremen”
  • Vietnamese: “Bremen”
  • Vlaams: “Bremen”
  • Volapük: “Bremen”
  • Walloon: “Bremen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bremen”
  • Welsh: “Bremen”
  • Western Frisian: “Bremen”
  • Wolof: “Bremen”
  • Wu Chinese: “不来梅”
  • Yakut: “Брэмэн”
  • Yiddish: “ברעמען”
  • Yoruba: “Bremen”
  • Yue Chinese: “不來梅”
  • Zulu: “Bremen”
  • “Bréma”
  • “Bremen”

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