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City state Bremen

Bremerhaven

Bremerhaven is a medium-sized town in the , on the outer Weser in northwestern . It is famous for its large harbour, one of the biggest in Germany for passenger traffic, apart from .
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  • Type: City with 117,000 residents
  • Description: German city in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
  • Also known as: “BHV” and “Stadtgemeinde Bremerhaven”
  • Historically known as: “Wesermunde”

Places of Interest

Highlights include German submarine Wilhelm Bauer and German Emigration Center.

Museum
Photo: Vulkan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy, completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol.

Museum
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The is a museum located in Bremerhaven, dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the .

Photo: Walter Rademacher, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lehe and Geestemünde.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Helmut Seger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

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
United Nations Location Code
DE BRV
Open location code
9F5CHH2P+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 660314734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2944368
Wiki­data ID
Q2706
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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”
  • Belarusian: “Брэмерхафен”
  • Bengali: “ব্রেমারহ্যাভেন”
  • Breton: “Bremerhaven”
  • Bulgarian: “Бремерхафен”
  • Catalan: “Bremerhaven”
  • Cebuano: “Bremerhaven (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Bremerhaven”
  • Central Kurdish: “برێمەرھاڤن”
  • Chinese: “Bremerhaven”
  • Chinese: “不来梅哈芬”
  • Chinese: “不萊梅港”
  • 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: “BHV”
  • French: “Bremerhaven”
  • Friulian: “Bremerhaven”
  • Galician: “Bremerhaven”
  • Georgian: “ბრემერჰავენი”
  • German: “BHV”
  • German: “Bremerhaven”
  • German: “Kreisfreie Stadt Bremerhaven”
  • German: “Wesermünde” (historical)
  • Greek: “Μπρεμερχάφεν”
  • Greek: “Μπρέμερχαφεν”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રેમરહેવન”
  • Hausa: “Bremerhaven”
  • Hebrew: “ברמרהאפן”
  • Hindi: “ब्रेमेरहेवन”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “Bremerhaven”
  • 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: “BHV”
  • 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: “BHV”
  • Turkish: “Bremerhaven”
  • Ukrainian: “Бремергафен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bremerhaven”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bremerhoben”
  • Urdu: “بریمرهاوین”
  • 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”
  • “Brėmerhafens”
  • “Bremerhaven”

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