Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven is a coastal city with a population of about 120,000 in the state of Bremen, on the outer Weser in northwestern Germany. It is famous for its large harbour, one of the biggest in Germany for passenger traffic, apart from Hamburg.
- Type: City with 117,000 residents
- Description: German city in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- Also known as: “BHV”, “Stadtgemeinde Bremerhaven”, “Брэмерхафен”, and “بریمرهاوین”
- Historically known as: “Wesermunde”
Places of Interest
Highlights: German submarine Wilhelm Bauer and German Emigration Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lehe and Geestemünde.
Bremerhaven
Latitude
53.5505° or 53° 33′ 2″ north
Longitude
8.5852° or 8° 35′ 7″ east
Population
117,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
IATA airport code
BRV
UN/LOCODE
DE BRV
Open location code
9F5CHH2P+63
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bremerhaven” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bremerhaven”
- Albanian: “Bremahafeni”
- Albanian: “Bremerhaven”
- Arabic: “بريمرهافن”
- Aragonese: “Bremerhaven”
- Armenian: “Բրեմերհաֆեն”
- Arpitan: “Bremerhaven”
- Asturian: “Bremerhaven”
- Balinese: “Bremerhaven”
- Basque: “Bremerhaven”
- Bavarian: “Bremahavn”
- Belarusian: “Брэмергафен”
- Bengali: “ব্রেমারহ্যাভেন”
- Breton: “Bremerhaven”
- Bulgarian: “Бремерхафен”
- Catalan: “Bremerhaven”
- Cebuano: “Bremerhaven (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Bremerhaven”
- Central Kurdish: “برێمەرھاڤن”
- Chinese: “不来梅哈芬”
- Chinese: “布萊梅港”
- Chuvash: “Бремерхафен”
- Corsican: “Bremerhaven”
- Croatian: “Bremerhaven”
- Czech: “Bremerhaven”
- Czech: “Brémský Přístav”
- Danish: “Bremerhaven”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bremerhaven”
- Dutch: “Bremerhaven”
- Esperanto: “Bremerhaven”
- Estonian: “Bremerhaven”
- Finnish: “Bremerhaven”
- French: “Bremerhaven”
- Friulian: “Bremerhaven”
- Galician: “Bremerhaven”
- Georgian: “ბრემერჰავენი”
- German: “Bremerhaven”
- German: “Kreisfreie Stadt Bremerhaven”
- German: “Wesermünde” (historical)
- Greek: “Μπρεμερχάφεν”
- Greek: “Μπρέμερχαφεν”
- Gujarati: “બ્રેમરહેવન”
- Hausa: “Bremerhaven”
- Hebrew: “ברמרהאפן”
- Hindi: “ब्रेमरहाफ़न”
- Hungarian: “Bremerhaven”
- Icelandic: “Bremerhaven”
- Ido: “Bremerhaven”
- Indonesian: “Bremerhaven”
- Interlingua: “Bremerhaven”
- Interlingue: “Bremerhaven”
- Irish: “Bremerhaven”
- Italian: “Bremerhaven”
- Japanese: “ブレーマーハーフェン”
- Jèrriais: “Bremerhaven”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಮರ್ಹವೆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Бремерхафен”
- Kongo: “Bremerhaven”
- Korean: “브레머하펜”
- Kotava: “Bremerhaven”
- Kurdish: “Bremerhaven”
- Ladin: “Bremerhaven”
- Latin: “Bremae Portus”
- Latvian: “Brēmerhāfene”
- Ligurian: “Bremerhaven”
- Limburgan: “Bremerhaven”
- Lithuanian: “Brėmerhafenas”
- Low German: “Bremerhaven”
- Low German: “Bremerhoben”
- Luxembourgish: “Bremerhaven”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bremerhaven”
- Macedonian: “Бремерхафен”
- Malagasy: “Bremerhaven”
- Malay: “Bremerhaven”
- Marathi: “ब्रेमरहाफेन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bremerhaven”
- Minangkabau: “Bremerhaven”
- Moksha: “Брэмэргафэн”
- Neapolitan: “Bremerhaven”
- Northern Frisian: “Bremerhuuwen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bremerhaven”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bremerhaven”
- Norwegian: “Bremerhaven”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bremerhaven”
- Ossetian: “Бремерхафен”
- Persian: “برمرهافن”
- Picard: “Bremerhaven”
- Piemontese: “Bremerhaven”
- Polish: “Bremerhaven”
- Portuguese: “Bremerhaven”
- Romanian: “Bremerhaven”
- Romansh: “Bremerhaven”
- Russian: “Бремерхафен”
- Samogitian: “Brėmerhafens”
- Sardinian: “Bremerhaven”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bremerhoawen”
- Scots: “Bremerhaven”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bremerhaven”
- Serbian: “Bremerhaven”
- Serbian: “Бремерхафен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bremerhaven”
- Sicilian: “Bremerhaven”
- Silesian: “Bremerhaven”
- Sinhala: “බ්රේමර්හැවන්”
- Slovak: “Bremerhaven”
- Slovenian: “Bremerhaven”
- South Azerbaijani: “برمرهافن”
- Spanish: “Bremerhaven”
- Swahili: “Bremerhaven”
- Swedish: “Bremerhaven”
- Swiss German: “Bremerhaven”
- Tamil: “பிரென்னர்ஹேவன்”
- Tatar: “Бремерһафен”
- Telugu: “బ్రెమెర్హవెన్”
- Thai: “เบรเมอร์ฮาเฟิน”
- Tumbuka: “Bremerhaven”
- Turkish: “Bremerhaven”
- Ukrainian: “Бремергафен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bremerhaven”
- Urdu: “بریمیرحاوین”
- Venetian: “Bremerhaven”
- Vietnamese: “Bremerhaven”
- Vlaams: “Bremerhaven”
- Volapük: “Bremerhaven”
- Walloon: “Bremerhaven”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bremerhaven”
- Welsh: “Bremerhaven”
- Western Frisian: “Bremerhaven”
- Western Panjabi: “بریمرہیون”
- Wolof: “Bremerhaven”
- Wu Chinese: “不来梅哈芬”
- Yakut: “Брэмэрһаффен”
- Yue Chinese: “不萊梅港”
- Zulu: “Bremerhaven”
- “Bremerhaven”
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