Elbe-Weser Triangle

The region between the and rivers forms the Elbe–Weser triangle, also rendered Elbe-Weser Triangle, in northern Germany. It is also colloquially referred to as the Nasses Dreieck or "wet triangle".
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is a coastal city with a population of about 120,000 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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is a seaside resort city in , on the mouth of the river Elbe on the North Sea coast. With roughly 3 million booked nights a year, it is one of the largest seaside resorts in Germany.

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is in Elbe Weser Triangle. The Old Town of is home to a variety of notable historic buildings. Located near to are the gigantic pylons of Elbe Crossing 1 and Elbe Crossing 2; the Elbe Crossing 2 pylons are the tallest in Europe and the sixth-tallest in the world.

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, officially the Hanseatic City of , is a town on the , in the of in Northern Germany. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region and attached to the city's S-Bahn rapid transit network.

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is a 3-km² tidal island in the Wadden Sea off the coast of . You can walk around it in an hour. Salt marshes, lie outside the dikes and provide a hatchery for birds such as oystercatchers, common terns, sandwich terns, black-headed gull, and herring gulls.

Elbe-Weser Triangle

Latitude of center
53.4243° or 53° 25′ 27″ north
Longitude of center
8.9841° or 8° 59′ 3″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q314510
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Satellite Map

Discover Elbe-Weser Triangle from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From German to Venetian—“Elbe-Weser Triangle” goes by many names.
  • German: “Elbe-Weser-Dreieck”
  • German: “Elbe-Weser-Raum”
  • Italian: “Triangolo Elba-Weser”
  • Japanese: “エルベ＝ヴェーザー＝トライアングル”
  • Japanese: “エルベ＝ヴェーザー＝ドライエック”
  • Low German: “Dreeeck Elv-Werser”
  • Low German: “Elv-Werser-Dreeeck”
  • Macedonian: “Триаголник „Елба-Везер“”
  • Macedonian: “Триаголник Елба-Везер”
  • Spanish: “Triangulo Elba Weser”
  • Spanish: “Triángulo Elba Weser”
  • Spanish: “Triangulo Elba-Weser”
  • Spanish: “Triángulo Elba-Weser”
  • Venetian: “Triàngoło Elba-Wezer”

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