Dresden

Dresden is the capital of . It's often referred to locally as Elbflorenz, or "Florence on the Elbe", reflecting its location on the Elbe river and its historical role as a centre for the arts and beautiful architecture – much like in Italy.
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  • City with about 563,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 110 metres (370 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code DRS
  • Description: capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany
  • Email: presse@dresden.de
  • Also known as
    “Drezda”
    “Elbflorenz”
    “Kreisfreie Stadt Dresden”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Semperoper and Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.
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Theater building
The is the opera house of the Sächsische…
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Museum
The in Dresden, Germany…
Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Park
is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blasewitz and Löbtau.
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Suburb
is a larger borough of Dresden, in the city's eastern centre on the Elbe river.
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Suburb
is a quarter or Stadtteil in south-west Dresden, .
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Suburb
is a neighborhood in central Dresden, Germany.

Dresden

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Latitude
51.0493° or 51° 2′ 58″ north
Longitude
13.7381° or 13° 44′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
DE DRS
Open location code
9F3M2PXQ+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20833613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2935022
Wiki­data ID
Q1731

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dresden” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dresden”
  • Albanian: “Dresden”
  • Albanian: “Dresdeni”
  • Amharic: “ድረስደን”
  • Amharic: “ድሬስደን”
  • Arabic: “دِرِسْدِن”
  • Arabic: “دريزدن”
  • Arabic: “دِرَيسْدِن”
  • Aragonese: “Dresde”
  • Armenian: “Դրեզդեն”
  • Arpitan: “Dresden”
  • Asturian: “Dresde”
  • Aymara: “Dresden”
  • Azerbaijani: “Drezden”
  • Balinese: “Drésden”
  • Bashkir: “Дрезден”
  • Basque: “Dresden”
  • Bavarian: “Dresdn”
  • Belarusian: “Дрэздэн”
  • Bengali: “ড্রেসডেন”
  • Bosnian: “Dresden”
  • Breton: “Dresden”
  • Bulgarian: “Дрезден”
  • Burmese: “ဒရက်စဒန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Dresden”
  • Cebuano: “Dresden (kapital sa estado pederal)”
  • Cebuano: “Dresden”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Dresden”
  • Central Kurdish: “درێسدن”
  • Chechen: “Дрезден”
  • Chinese: “德列斯登”
  • Chinese: “德勒斯登”
  • Chinese: “德累斯頓市”
  • Chinese: “德累斯顿”
  • Chinese: “德累斯顿市”
  • Chuvash: “Дрезден”
  • Corsican: “Dresda”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Drezden”
  • Croatian: “Dresden”
  • Czech: “Drážďany”
  • Dagbani: “Dresden”
  • Danish: “Dresden”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dresden”
  • Dutch: “Dresden”
  • Eastern Mari: “Дрезден”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “درسدن”
  • Esperanto: “Dresdeno”
  • Estonian: “Dresden”
  • Extremaduran: “Dresde”
  • Fijian: “Dresden”
  • Finnish: “Dresden”
  • French: “Dresde”
  • Friulian: “Dresden”
  • Galician: “Dresde”
  • Galician: “Dresden”
  • Georgian: “დრეზდენი”
  • German: “Dresden”
  • German: “Drežďany”
  • German: “Elbflorenz”
  • German: “Landeshauptstadt Dresden”
  • Greek: “Δρέσδη”
  • Gujarati: “ડ્રેસ્ડેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dresden”
  • Hausa: “Dresden”
  • Hebrew: “דרזדן”
  • Hindi: “ड्रेसडेन”
  • Hungarian: “Drezda”
  • Icelandic: “Dresden”
  • Ido: “Dresden”
  • Indonesian: “Dresden”
  • Interlingua: “Dresden”
  • Interlingue: “Dresden”
  • Irish: “Dresden”
  • Italian: “Dresda”
  • Japanese: “ドレースデン”
  • Japanese: “ドレスデン”
  • Javanese: “Dresden”
  • Jèrriais: “Dresden”
  • Kannada: “ಡ್ರೆಸ್ಡೇನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Drezden”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Elbflorenz”
  • Kashubian: “Drezdëno”
  • Kazakh: “Дрезден”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Dresden”
  • Kirghiz: “Дрезден шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Дрезден”
  • Kongo: “Dresden”
  • Korean: “드레스덴”
  • Korean: “드레즈덴”
  • Kurdish: “Dresden”
  • Ladin: “Dresden”
  • Latin: “Dresda”
  • Latvian: “Drēzdene”
  • Ligurian: “Dresda”
  • Limburgan: “Dreesdje”
  • Limburgan: “Dresden”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Dresden”
  • Lithuanian: “Dresdenas”
  • Lombard: “Dresda”
  • Low German: “Dresden”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Drježdźany”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dresden”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Dresden”
  • Macedonian: “Дрезден”
  • Malagasy: “Dresden”
  • Malay: “Dresden”
  • Malayalam: “ഡ്രെസ്ഡെൻ”
  • Maltese: “Dresden”
  • Maltese: “Drezda”
  • Maltese: “Elbflorenz”
  • Marathi: “ड्रेस्डेन”
  • Mazanderani: “درسدن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dresden”
  • Minangkabau: “Dresden”
  • Mingrelian: “დრეზდენი”
  • Moksha: “Дрэздэн”
  • Mongolian: “Дрезден”
  • Mongolian: “Дресден”
  • Neapolitan: “Dresden”
  • Nepali: “ड्रेसडेन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dresden”
  • Northern Sami: “Dresden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dresden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dresden”
  • Norwegian: “Dresden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Drèsda”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dresdūn”
  • Oromo: “Dresden”
  • Ossetian: “Дрезден”
  • Pampanga: “Dresden”
  • Panjabi: “ਡ੍ਰੇਸਡਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Dresden”
  • Persian: “درسدن”
  • Persian: “دریسدن”
  • Picard: “Dresden”
  • Piemontese: “Dresda”
  • Polish: “Drážďany”
  • Polish: “Drezdno”
  • Polish: “Drezno”
  • Polish: “Drježdźany”
  • Portuguese: “Dresden”
  • Pushto: “درسدن”
  • Pushto: “ډریسډن”
  • Quechua: “Dresden”
  • Romanian: “Dresda”
  • Romansh: “Dresden”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дрезден”
  • Russian: “Дрезден”
  • Rusyn: “Дреждяны”
  • Sardinian: “Dresda”
  • Sardinian: “Dresden”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Dresden”
  • Scots: “Dresden”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dresden”
  • Serbian: “Dresden”
  • Serbian: “Дрезден”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dresden”
  • Sicilian: “Dresda”
  • Silesian: “Dresden”
  • Sindhi: “ڊريسڊن”
  • Sinhala: “ඩ්රෙස්ඩන්”
  • Slovak: “Drážďany”
  • Slovenian: “Draždani*”
  • Slovenian: “Dresden”
  • Somali: “Dresden”
  • South Azerbaijani: “درسدن”
  • Spanish: “Dresde”
  • Swahili: “Dresden”
  • Swedish: “Dresden”
  • Swiss German: “Dresden”
  • Tagalog: “Dresde”
  • Tajik: “Дрезден”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரெஸ்டென்”
  • Tamil: “திரெசுடன்”
  • Tatar: “Дрезден”
  • Telugu: “డ్రెస్డెన్”
  • Tetum: “Dresden”
  • Thai: “เดรสเดิน”
  • Tumbuka: “Dresden”
  • Turkish: “Dresden”
  • Turkish: “Elbflorenz”
  • Turkmen: “Drezden”
  • Twi: “Dresden”
  • Udmurt: “Дрезден”
  • Uighur: “Drézdén”
  • Ukrainian: “Дрезден”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Drježdźany”
  • Urdu: “ڈریسڈن”
  • Uzbek: “Drezden”
  • Venetian: “Dresda”
  • Veps: “Drezden”
  • Vietnamese: “Dresden”
  • Vlaams: “Dresden”
  • Volapük: “Dresden”
  • Walloon: “Dresden”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dresden”
  • Welsh: “Dresden”
  • Western Frisian: “Dresden”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈریسڈن”
  • Wolof: “Dresden”
  • Wu Chinese: “德累斯顿”
  • Yiddish: “דרעזדן”
  • Yoruba: “Dresden”
  • Yue Chinese: “德累斯頓”
  • Zeeuws: “Dresden”
  • Zulu: “Dresden”

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