Gifhorn
Gifhorn is a town and capital of the district of Gifhorn in the east of Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 42,000 and is mainly influenced by the small distance to the more industrial and commercially important cities nearby, Brunswick and Wolfsburg.
- Town with about 42,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (170 feet)
- Description: town in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Neighbors: Brunswick Land
Places of Interest
Highlights include International Wind- and Watermill Museum and Gifhorn Castle.
International Wind- and Watermill Museum
The International Wind- and Watermill Museum…
Gifhorn Castle
Gifhorn Castle is a castle in Gifhorn, Germany, built…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sassenburg-Triangel and Gamsen.
Sassenburg-Triangel
Triangel is a village in the municipality of Sassenburg in the Lower Saxon district of Gifhorn. Sassenburg-Triangel is situated 3½ km northeast of Gifhorn.
Gifhorn
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Latitude
52.4882° or 52° 29′ 18″ north
Longitude
10.5453° or 10° 32′ 43″ east
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Open location code
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OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gifhorn” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gifhorn”
- Arabic: “غيفهورن”
- Aragonese: “Gifhorn”
- Arpitan: “Gifhorn”
- Asturian: “Gifhorn”
- Basque: “Gifhorn”
- Bavarian: “Gifhorn”
- Breton: “Gifhorn”
- Bulgarian: “Гифхорн”
- Catalan: “Gifhorn”
- Cebuano: “Gifhorn (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Gifhorn”
- Chechen: “Гифхорн”
- Chinese: “吉夫霍恩”
- Corsican: “Gifhorn”
- Croatian: “Gifhorn”
- Czech: “Gifhorn”
- Danish: “Gifhorn”
- Dutch: “Gifhorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيفهورن”
- Esperanto: “Gifhorn”
- Estonian: “Gifhorn”
- Finnish: “Gifhorn”
- French: “Gifhorn”
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- Galician: “Gifhorn”
- German: “Gifhorn”
- Greek: “Γκίφορν”
- Hindi: “गिफ़हॉर्न”
- Hungarian: “Gifhorn”
- Icelandic: “Gifhorn”
- Ido: “Gifhorn”
- Indonesian: “Gifhorn”
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- Irish: “Gifhorn”
- Italian: “Gifhorn”
- Japanese: “ギフォルン”
- Japanese: “ギフホルン”
- Jèrriais: “Gifhorn”
- Kazakh: “Гифхорн”
- Kirghiz: “Гифхорн”
- Kongo: “Gifhorn”
- Korean: “기프호른”
- Kurdish: “Gifhorn”
- Ladin: “Gifhorn”
- Latin: “Gifhorna”
- Ligurian: “Gifhorn”
- Limburgan: “Gifhorn”
- Low German: “Gefhörn”
- Low German: “Gifhorn”
- Luxembourgish: “Gifhorn”
- Macedonian: “Гифхорн”
- Malagasy: “Gifhorn”
- Malay: “Gifhorn”
- Minangkabau: “Gifhorn”
- Neapolitan: “Gifhorn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gifhorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gifhorn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gifhorn”
- Persian: “گيفهرن”
- Persian: “گیفهرن”
- Persian: “گیفهورن”
- Picard: “Gifhorn”
- Piemontese: “Gifhorn”
- Polish: “Gifhorn”
- Portuguese: “Gifhorn”
- Romanian: “Gifhorn”
- Romansh: “Gifhorn”
- Russian: “Гифхорн”
- Sardinian: “Gifhorn”
- Scots: “Gifhorn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gifhorn”
- Serbian: “Gifhorn”
- Serbian: “Гифхорн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gifhorn”
- Sicilian: “Gifhorn”
- Slovak: “Gifhorn”
- Slovenian: “Gifhorn”
- Spanish: “Gifhorn”
- Swahili: “Gifhorn”
- Swedish: “Gifhorn”
- Swiss German: “Gifhorn”
- Tatar: “Гифһорн”
- Tumbuka: “Gifhorn”
- Turkish: “Gifhorn”
- Ukrainian: “Гіфгорн”
- Ukrainian: “Ґіфгорн”
- Urdu: “گف ہورن”
- Uzbek: “Gifhorn”
- Venetian: “Gifhorn”
- Vietnamese: “Gifhorn”
- Vlaams: “Gifhorn”
- Volapük: “Gifhorn”
- Walloon: “Gifhorn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gifhorn”
- Welsh: “Gifhorn”
- Wolof: “Gifhorn”
- Zulu: “Gifhorn”
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