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.
- Type: Town with 43,000 residents
- 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
Theme park
Gifhorn Castle
Castle
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sassenburg-Triangel and Gamsen.
Sassenburg-Triangel
Village
Triangel is a village in the municipality of Sassenburg in the Lower Saxon district of Gifhorn. The word means “triangle” in German. The name is derived from the original shape of the village estate. Sassenburg-Triangel is situated 3½ km northeast of Gifhorn.
Gifhorn
Latitude
52.4882° or 52° 29′ 18″ north
Longitude
10.5453° or 10° 32′ 43″ east
Population
43,000
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE GIF
Open location code
9F4GFGQW+74
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Friulian: “Gifhorn”
- Galician: “Gifhorn”
- German: “Gifhorn”
- Greek: “Γκίφορν”
- Hindi: “गिफ़हॉर्न”
- Hungarian: “Gifhorn”
- Icelandic: “Gifhorn”
- Ido: “Gifhorn”
- Indonesian: “Gifhorn”
- Interlingua: “Gifhorn”
- Interlingue: “Gifhorn”
- Irish: “Gifhorn”
- Italian: “Gifhorn”
- Japanese: “ギフォルン”
- Japanese: “ギフホルン”
- 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”
- Narom: “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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