Cottbus

Cottbus is the second-largest city in the state of , . It is considered one of the cultural centres of the Sorbs, a Slavic ethnic minority in eastern Germany.
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  • Type: City with 98,700 residents
  • Description: city in Brandenburg, Germany
  • Also known as: “Chóśebuz” and “Cottbus - Chóśebuz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wendish Museum and Cottbus Hauptbahnhof.

Museum
Photo: Alexandru.giurca, Public domain.
The , Lower Sorbian: Serbski muzej, German: Wendisches Museum, is a museum of the culture and history of the Wends and Sorbs in .

Railway station
Photo: Karatecoop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Chóśebuz głowne dwórnišćo is one of the main railway stations of the German state of . It was called Cottbus station until 9 December 2018.

Theater building
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is the only state theatre of the German federal state of in Cottbus. It has its own ensemble presenting plays, operas, operettas, musicals, orchestral concerts and ballet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sandow and Ströbitz.

Suburb
Photo: Tourist Cottbus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: O.Maro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of , in , , .

Cottbus

Latitude
51.7567° or 51° 45′ 24″ north
Longitude
14.3357° or 14° 20′ 9″ east
Population
98,700
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
IATA airport code
CBU
United Nations Location Code
DE COT
Open location code
9F3PQ84P+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1628927045
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2939811
Wiki­data ID
Q3214
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cottbus” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cottbus”
  • Arabic: “كتبوس”
  • Arabic: “كوتبوس”
  • Aragonese: “Cottbus”
  • Armenian: “Կոտբուս”
  • Arpitan: “Cottbus”
  • Asturian: “Cottbus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kotbus”
  • Balinese: “Cottbus”
  • Bashkir: “Котбус”
  • Basque: “Cottbus”
  • Bavarian: “Cottbus”
  • Belarusian: “Котбус”
  • Breton: “Cottbus”
  • Bulgarian: “Котбус”
  • Catalan: “Cottbus”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Cottbus”
  • Chechen: “Котбус”
  • Chinese: “Cottbus”
  • Chinese: “科特布斯”
  • Corsican: “Cottbus”
  • Croatian: “Cottbus”
  • Czech: “Choćebuz”
  • Czech: “Chóśebuz”
  • Czech: “Chotěbuz”
  • Czech: “Cottbus”
  • Danish: “Cottbus”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cottbus”
  • Dutch: “Cottbus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوتبوس”
  • Esperanto: “Cottbus”
  • Estonian: “Cottbus”
  • Finnish: “Cottbus”
  • French: “Cottbus”
  • Friulian: “Cottbus”
  • Galician: “Cottbus”
  • Georgian: “კოტბუსი”
  • German: “Chóśebuz”
  • German: “Cottbus”
  • German: “Cottbus/Chóśebuz”
  • German: “Kottbus”
  • Greek: “Κότμπους”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cottbus”
  • Hebrew: “קוטבוס”
  • Hungarian: “Cottbus”
  • Icelandic: “Cottbus”
  • Ido: “Cottbus”
  • Indonesian: “Cottbus”
  • Interlingua: “Cottbus”
  • Interlingue: “Cottbus”
  • Irish: “Cottbus”
  • Italian: “Cottbus”
  • Japanese: “ガリンヒェン”
  • Japanese: “キーケブッシュ (コトブス)”
  • Japanese: “コトブス”
  • Javanese: “Cottbus”
  • Kazakh: “Коттбус”
  • Kongo: “Cottbus”
  • Korean: “콧부스”
  • Kotava: “Cottbus”
  • Kurdish: “Cottbus”
  • Ladin: “Cottbus”
  • Latin: “Cotbusium”
  • Latvian: “Kotbusa”
  • Ligurian: “Cottbus”
  • Limburgan: “Cottbus”
  • Lithuanian: “Kotbusas”
  • Lombard: “Cottbus”
  • Low German: “Cottbus/Chóśebuz”
  • Low German: “Cottbus”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Chóśebuz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cottbus”
  • Macedonian: “Котбус”
  • Malagasy: “Cottbus”
  • Malay: “Cottbus”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cottbus”
  • Minangkabau: “Cottbus”
  • Mingrelian: “კოტბუსი”
  • Narom: “Cottbus”
  • Neapolitan: “Cottbus”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cottbus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chóśebuz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cottbus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cottbus”
  • Norwegian: “Cottbus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chóśebuz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cottbus”
  • Ossetian: “Котбус”
  • Persian: “کتبوس”
  • Persian: “کوتبوس”
  • Picard: “Cottbus”
  • Piemontese: “Cottbus”
  • Polish: “Chociebuż”
  • Portuguese: “Cottbus”
  • Romanian: “Cottbus”
  • Romansh: “Cottbus”
  • Russian: “Котбус”
  • Sardinian: “Cottbus”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Cottbus”
  • Scots: “Cottbus”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cottbus”
  • Serbian: “Cottbus”
  • Serbian: “Котбус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cottbus/Chośebuz”
  • Sicilian: “Cottbus”
  • Slovak: “Chotebuz”
  • Slovak: “Cottbus”
  • Slovenian: “Cottbus”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوتبوس”
  • Spanish: “Cottbus”
  • Swahili: “Cottbus”
  • Swedish: “Cottbus”
  • Swiss German: “Cottbus”
  • Tatar: “Котбус”
  • Thai: “คอทท์บุส”
  • Thai: “ค็อทบุส”
  • Tumbuka: “Cottbus”
  • Turkish: “Chóśebuz”
  • Turkish: “Cottbus/Chóśebuz”
  • Turkish: “Cottbus”
  • Turkish: “Kottbus”
  • Ukrainian: “Котбус/Хосебуз”
  • Ukrainian: “Котбус”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Choćebuz”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Chóśebuz”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cottbus”
  • Urdu: “کوٹبس”
  • Uzbek: “Cottbus”
  • Venetian: “Cottbus”
  • Vietnamese: “Cottbus”
  • Vlaams: “Cottbus”
  • Volapük: “Cottbus”
  • Walloon: “Cottbus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cottbus”
  • Welsh: “Cottbus”
  • Western Frisian: “Cottbus”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوٹبس”
  • Wolof: “Cottbus”
  • Wu Chinese: “科特布斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “科特布斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Cottbus”
  • Zulu: “Cottbus”
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