Greifswald
Greifswald is a town of 59,000 people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Germany. The town sits at the south end of the Bay of Greifswald, and the historic centre on the river Ryck that crosses the city.
- Type: Town with 56,400 residents
- Description: town in Vorpommern-Greifswald District, Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, Germany
- Also known as: “13075039”, “cidade universitaria e hanseática de Greifswald”, “Ciutat hanseàtica i universitària de Greifswald”, “Hansestadt Greifswald”, and “University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Greifswald station and Greifswald City Library.
Greifswald station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neuenkirchen and Wackerow.
Greifswald
Latitude
54.0958° or 54° 5′ 45″ north
Longitude
13.3815° or 13° 22′ 54″ east
Population
56,400
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
9F6M39WJ+8J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Greifswald” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Greifswald”
- Arabic: “غرايفسفالت”
- Arabic: “غرايفسفالد”
- Aragonese: “Greifswald”
- Armenian: “Գրայֆսվալդ”
- Arpitan: “Greifswald”
- Asturian: “Greifswald”
- Basque: “Greifswald”
- Bavarian: “Greifswald”
- Belarusian: “Грайфсвальд”
- Breton: “Greifswald”
- Bulgarian: “Грайфсвалд”
- Catalan: “Greifswald”
- Cebuano: “Greifswald (kapital sa distrito)”
- Chinese: “格賴夫斯瓦爾德”
- Chinese: “格赖夫斯瓦尔德”
- Corsican: “Greifswald”
- Croatian: “Greifswald”
- Czech: “Greifswald”
- Danish: “Greifswald”
- Dutch: “Greifswald”
- Erzya: “Грайфсвальд”
- Esperanto: “Greifswald”
- Estonian: “Greifswald”
- Finnish: “Greifswald”
- French: “Greifswald”
- Friulian: “Greifswald”
- Galician: “Greifswald”
- Georgian: “გრაიფსვალდი”
- German: “Greifswald”
- German: “Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald”
- Greek: “Γκράιφσβαλντ”
- Hebrew: “גרייפסוואלד”
- Hindi: “ग्राइफ़्सवाल्ड”
- Hungarian: “Greifswald”
- Icelandic: “Greifswald”
- Ido: “Greifswald”
- Indonesian: “Greifswald”
- Interlingua: “Greifswald”
- Interlingue: “Greifswald”
- Irish: “Greifswald”
- Italian: “Greifswald”
- Japanese: “グライフスヴァルト”
- Jèrriais: “Greifswald”
- Kashubian: “Greifswald”
- Kashubian: “Grifiô”
- Kazakh: “Грайфсвальд”
- Kirghiz: “Грайфсвальд”
- Kongo: “Greifswald”
- Korean: “그라이프스발트”
- Kurdish: “Greifswald”
- Ladin: “Greifswald”
- Latin: “Gryphiswalda”
- Latin: “Gryphiswaldia”
- Latvian: “Greifsvalde”
- Ligurian: “Greifswald”
- Limburgan: “Greifswald”
- Lithuanian: “Greifsvaldas”
- Low German: “Greifswald”
- Low German: “Griepswohld”
- Low German: “Griepswold”
- Luxembourgish: “Greifswald”
- Macedonian: “Грајфсвалд”
- Malagasy: “Greifswald”
- Malay: “Greifswald”
- Minangkabau: “Greifswald”
- Neapolitan: “Greifswald”
- Northern Frisian: “Greifswald”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Greifswald”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greifswald”
- Norwegian: “Greifswald”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Greifswald”
- Persian: “گرایفسوالت”
- Persian: “گرایفسوالد”
- Pfaelzisch: “Greifswald”
- Picard: “Greifswald”
- Piemontese: “Greifswald”
- Polish: “Greifswald”
- Polish: “Gryfia”
- Portuguese: “Greifswald”
- Romanian: “Greifswald”
- Romansh: “Greifswald”
- Russian: “Грайфсвальд”
- Sardinian: “Greifswald”
- Saterfriesisch: “Greifswald”
- Scots: “Greifswald”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Greifswald”
- Serbian: “Greifswald”
- Serbian: “Грајфсвалд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Greifswald”
- Sicilian: “Greifswald”
- Silesian: “Greifswald”
- Slovak: “Greifswald”
- Slovenian: “Greifswald”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرایفسوالد”
- Spanish: “Greifswald”
- Swahili: “Greifswald”
- Swedish: “Greifswald”
- Swiss German: “Greifswald”
- Tatar: “Грайфсвальд”
- Thai: “ไกรฟส์วัลท์”
- Tumbuka: “Greifswald”
- Turkish: “Greifswald”
- Ukrainian: “Грайфсвальд”
- Ukrainian: “Ґрайфсвальд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Greifswald”
- Urdu: “گرایفسوالت”
- Venetian: “Greifswald”
- Vietnamese: “Greifswald”
- Vlaams: “Greifswald”
- Volapük: “Greifswald”
- Walloon: “Greifswald”
- Waray (Philippines): “Greifswald”
- Welsh: “Greifswald”
- Western Panjabi: “گریفزوالڈ”
- Wolof: “Greifswald”
- Wu Chinese: “格赖夫斯瓦尔德”
- Yue Chinese: “格賴夫斯華特”
- Zulu: “Greifswald”
- “Greifswald”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Fleischer-Vorstadt and Steinbecker Vorstadt.
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