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Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a city in the southernmost part of the state of , bordering and .
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  • Type: City with 135,000 residents
  • Description: large city in Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “Goettingen”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Göttingen State and University Library and Göttingen Railway Station.

Library
Photo: Longbow4u, Public domain.
The is the library for Göttingen University as well as for the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and is the state library for the German State of .

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
, known in German as Bahnhof Göttingen, is an InterCityExpress stop on Germany's domestic long-distance rail network and the only passenger station of the city of Göttingen.

Community center
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a community center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Weststadt and Innenstadt.

Suburb
Photo: Simon-Martin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a suburb.

Town
Photo: Dehio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the , in , . It is approximately 4 km southwest of Göttingen.

Göttingen

Latitude
51.5328° or 51° 31′ 58″ north
Longitude
9.9352° or 9° 56′ 7″ east
Population
135,000
Elevation
153 metres (502 feet)
IATA airport code
ZEU
United Nations Location Code
DE GOE
Open location code
9F3FGWMP+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1674619101
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2918632
Wiki­data ID
Q3033
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Göttingen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Göttingen”
  • Albanian: “Göttingen”
  • Arabic: “غوتينغن”
  • Arabic: “كوتنكة”
  • Arabic: “كوتنكن”
  • Aragonese: “Göttingen”
  • Armenian: “Գյոթինգեն”
  • Arpitan: “Göttingen”
  • Asturian: “Gotinga”
  • Asturian: “Göttingen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Göttingen”
  • Balinese: “Göttingen”
  • Basque: “Göttingen”
  • Bavarian: “Göttingen”
  • Belarusian: “Гётынген”
  • Bengali: “গ্যোটিঙেন”
  • Breton: “Göttingen”
  • Bulgarian: “Гьотинген”
  • Catalan: “Göttingen”
  • Cebuano: “Göttingen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Göttingen”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوتینگێن”
  • Chechen: “Гёттинген”
  • Chechen: “Гоьттинген”
  • Chinese: “Göttingen”
  • Chinese: “哥廷根”
  • Chinese: “格丁根”
  • Chinese: “格廷根”
  • Corsican: “Göttingen”
  • Croatian: “Göttingen”
  • Czech: “Gotinky”
  • Czech: “Göttingen”
  • Danish: “Göttingen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Göttingen”
  • Dutch: “Gottingen”
  • Dutch: “Göttingen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوتينجن”
  • Esperanto: “Göttingen”
  • Estonian: “Göttingen”
  • Faroese: “Göttingen”
  • Finnish: “Göttingen”
  • French: “Gœttingue”
  • French: “Göttingen”
  • Friulian: “Göttingen”
  • Galician: “Gotinga”
  • Georgian: “გეტინგენი”
  • German: “Göttingen”
  • Greek: “Γκέτινγκεν”
  • Greek: “Γοτίγγη”
  • Greek: “Γοττίγγη”
  • Gujarati: “ગોટીંગેન”
  • Hausa: “Göttingen”
  • Hebrew: “גטינגן”
  • Hindi: “गाटिंजेन”
  • Hungarian: “Göttingen”
  • Icelandic: “Göttingen”
  • Ido: “Göttingen”
  • Igbo: “Göttingen”
  • Indonesian: “Göttingen”
  • Interlingua: “Göttingen”
  • Interlingue: “Göttingen”
  • Irish: “Göttingen”
  • Italian: “Gottinga”
  • Italian: “Göttingen”
  • Japanese: “ゲッティンゲン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Göttingen”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಟಿಂಗೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Гёттинген”
  • Kirghiz: “Гөттинген”
  • Kölsch: “Göttingen”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Гёттинген”
  • Kongo: “Göttingen”
  • Korean: “괴팅겐”
  • Kurdish: “Göttingen”
  • Ladin: “Göttingen”
  • Latin: “Gottinga”
  • Latvian: “Getingene”
  • Ligurian: “Göttingen”
  • Limburgan: “Göttingen”
  • Lithuanian: “Getingenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gėtingenas”
  • Low German: “Chöttingen”
  • Low German: “Göttingen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Göttingen”
  • Macedonian: “Гетинген”
  • Malagasy: “Göttingen”
  • Malay: “Göttingen”
  • Maltese: “Göttingen”
  • Marathi: “ग्यॉटिंगन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Göttingen”
  • Minangkabau: “Göttingen”
  • Moksha: “Гёттингэн”
  • Moksha: “Гэттингэн”
  • Narom: “Göttingen”
  • Neapolitan: “Göttingen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Göttingen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Göttingen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Göttingen”
  • Norwegian: “Göttingen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Göttingen”
  • Ossetian: “Гёттинген”
  • Persian: “گوتینگن”
  • Picard: “Göttingen”
  • Piemontese: “Göttingen”
  • Polish: “Getynga”
  • Portuguese: “Gotinga”
  • Portuguese: “Göttingen”
  • Romanian: “Göttingen”
  • Romansh: “Göttingen”
  • Russian: “Гёттинген”
  • Sardinian: “Göttingen”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Göttingen”
  • Scots: “Göttingen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Göttingen”
  • Serbian: “Göttingen”
  • Serbian: “Гетинген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Göttingen”
  • Sicilian: “Gottinga”
  • Silesian: “Göttingen”
  • Sinhala: “ගොටින්ජෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Göttingen”
  • Slovenian: “Göttingen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوتینقن”
  • Spanish: “Gotinga”
  • Swahili: “Göttingen”
  • Swedish: “Göttingen”
  • Swiss German: “Göttinge”
  • Swiss German: “Göttingen”
  • Tamil: “கோட்டிங்கென்”
  • Tatar: “Гөттинген”
  • Telugu: “గొట్టింగ్ జెన్”
  • Thai: “เกิททิงเงิน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Göttingen”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Göttingen”
  • Tumbuka: “Göttingen”
  • Turkish: “Göttingen”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґетінґен”
  • Ukrainian: “Геттінген”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґеттінґен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Göttingen”
  • Urdu: “غهٹینگن”
  • Urdu: “گوتتینجین”
  • Uzbek: “Göttingen”
  • Venetian: “Göttingen”
  • Vietnamese: “Göttingen”
  • Vlaams: “Göttingen”
  • Volapük: “Göttingen”
  • Walloon: “Göttingen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Göttingen”
  • Welsh: “Göttingen”
  • Western Frisian: “Göttingen”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوٹنگن”
  • Wolof: “Göttingen”
  • Wu Chinese: “哥廷根”
  • Yiddish: “געטינגען”
  • Yoruba: “Göttingen”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥廷根”
  • Zeeuws: “Göttingen”
  • Zulu: “Göttingen”
  • “Göttingen”

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