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Hamburg

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is Germany's second-largest city and, at the same time, one of Germany's 16 federal states or Bundesländer. Prior to the formation of the modern German state, Hamburg for centuries enjoyed a status as de facto independent city state and regional power and trade hub in the North Sea.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Altona-St. Pauli and Neustadt-Altstadt.

Altona and St. Pauli are west of central Hamburg. Altona used to be an independent city and emerged as fisherman's village in the 16th century. It existed under Danish rule west of Hamburg, competing with it in trade and militarily.

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The city centre of Hamburg is formed by the districts of Altstadt and Neustadt, as well as the new district of Hafencity immediately south of Altstadt.

Eastern Hamburg includes the dense, LGBT-friendly district St. Georg filled with cozy narrow streets between the dense, 19th-century tenements, with its cafe-filled main street of Lange Reihe, as well as a part of lake Aussenalster's shoreline with the venerable Hotel Atlantic.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Hamburg and North Hamburg.

The southern bank of the river Elbe in Hamburg is dominated by the city's massive port. You will find the Finkenwerder airport, the site of the Airbus aircraft assembly plant there, which is a planespotter's favourite, and further south the district of Harburg, which used to be a separate city and has a long history.

Northern Hamburg includes the lake of Aussenalster, the city's airport and a lot of greenery in-between.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Elbe Philharmonic Hall and Speicherstadt.

Theater building
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The Elbphilharmonie, popularly nicknamed Elphi, is a concert hall in the quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the River.

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The in Hamburg, , is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations—oak logs, in this particular case.

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The Miniatur Wunderland is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. It is located at the historic in Hamburg and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eimsbüttel and Wandsbek.

Suburb
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is one of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, . In 2020, the borough had a population of 269,118.

Suburb
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is an urban quarter in the borough of Hamburg, Germany, and the former city in the Duchy of Holstein. In 2020 the population was 36,671. It was also the birthplace of Großadmiral Erich Raeder.

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is a quarter of Hamburg, in the borough.

Hamburg

Latitude
53.5503° or 53° 33′ 1″ north
Longitude
10.0007° or 10° 0′ 2″ east
Population
1,860,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Abbreviation
“HH”
IATA airport code
HAM
United Nations Location Code
DE HAM
Open location code
9F5GH222+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20833623
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2911298
Wiki­data ID
Q1055
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hamburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hamburg”
  • Albanian: “Hamburgu”
  • Amharic: “ሃምቡርግ”
  • Arabic: “هامبورغ”
  • Arabic: “همبرغ”
  • Arabic: “همبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Hamburgo”
  • Armenian: “Համբուրգ”
  • Arpitan: “Hamburg”
  • Asturian: “Hamburg”
  • Asturian: “Hamburgu”
  • Aymara: “Hamburg suyu”
  • Aymara: “Hamburg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hamburq”
  • Balinese: “Hamburg”
  • Bashkir: “Гамбург”
  • Basque: “Hamburg”
  • Basque: “Hanburgo”
  • Bavarian: “Hamburg”
  • Belarusian: “Гамбург”
  • Bengali: “হামবুর্গ”
  • Bhojpuri: “हैम्बर्ग”
  • Bosnian: “Hamburg”
  • Breton: “Hamburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамбург”
  • Burmese: “ဟမ်းဗတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat d’Hamburg”
  • Catalan: “Hamborg”
  • Catalan: “Hamburg”
  • Cebuano: “Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg”
  • Cebuano: “Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھامبورگ”
  • Chamorro: “Hamburg”
  • Chavacano: “Hamburg”
  • Chechen: “Гамбург”
  • Chinese: “Hamburg”
  • Chinese: “昂布而”
  • Chinese: “汉堡”
  • Chinese: “汉堡市”
  • Chinese: “漢堡”
  • Chuvash: “Гамбург”
  • Cornish: “Hamburg”
  • Corsican: “Amburgu”
  • Corsican: “Hamburg”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gamburg”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hamburg”
  • Croatian: “Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg”
  • Croatian: “Hamburg”
  • Croatian: “Hansestadt Hamburg”
  • Croatian: “Slobodni i hanzeatski grad Hamburg”
  • Czech: “Hamburg”
  • Czech: “Hamburk”
  • Dagbani: “Hamburg”
  • Danish: “Hamborg”
  • Danish: “Hamburg”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hamburg”
  • Drents: “Hambörg”
  • Dutch: “Hamburg”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гамбург”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هامبورج”
  • Erzya: “Гамбург ош”
  • Esperanto: “Hamburgo”
  • Estonian: “Hamburg”
  • Extremaduran: “Amburgu”
  • Faroese: “Hamburg”
  • Fijian: “Hamburg”
  • Finnish: “Hamburg”
  • Finnish: “Hampuri”
  • French: “Hambourg”
  • Friulian: “Amburc”
  • Fulah: “Hamburg”
  • Galician: “Hamborg”
  • Galician: “Hamburg”
  • Galician: “Hamburgo”
  • Georgian: “ჰამბურგი”
  • German: “DE-HH”
  • German: “FHH”
  • German: “Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg”
  • German: “Hamburg”
  • German: “Hansestadt Hamburg”
  • German: “HH”
  • German: “Land Hamburg”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐌰𐌼𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐌰𐌼𐌼𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃”
  • Greek: “Αμβούργο”
  • Guarani: “Hamburgo”
  • Gujarati: “હેમ્બર્ગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hamburg”
  • Hausa: “Hamburg”
  • Hawaiian: “Hamepuka”
  • Hebrew: “המבורג”
  • Hindi: “हैम्बर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Hamburg Szabad és Hanzaváros”
  • Hungarian: “Hamburg”
  • Icelandic: “Hamborg”
  • Ido: “Hamburg”
  • Iloko: “Hamburg”
  • Inari Sami: “Hambur”
  • Indonesian: “Hamburg”
  • Ingush: “Гамбург”
  • Ingush: “Ӏамбий”
  • Interlingua: “Hamburg”
  • Interlingue: “Hamburg”
  • Irish: “Hamburg”
  • Italian: “Amburgo”
  • Italian: “Hamburg”
  • Japanese: “ハンブルク”
  • Japanese: “ハンブルク州”
  • Japanese: “ハンブルク特別市”
  • Japanese: “自由・ハンザ都市ハンブルク”
  • Javanese: “Hamburg”
  • Kabyle: “Hamburg”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾಂಬುರ್ಕ”
  • Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಂಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gamburg”
  • Kashubian: “Hambùrg”
  • Kashubian: “Hambùrk”
  • Kazakh: “Гамбург”
  • Kazakh: “Хамбург”
  • Kirghiz: “Гамбург”
  • Kölsch: “Hamburg”
  • Komering: “Hamburg”
  • Kongo: “Hamburg”
  • Korean: “함부르크”
  • Kurdish: “Hamburg”
  • Kurdish: “Hambûrg”
  • Ladin: “Hamburg”
  • Ladino: “Amburgo”
  • Ladino: “Hamburgo”
  • Latin: “Augusta Gambriviorum”
  • Latin: “Gambrivium”
  • Latin: “Hamburgum”
  • Latvian: “Hamburga”
  • Lezghian: “Гьамбург”
  • Ligurian: “Ambûrgo”
  • Limburgan: “Hamburg”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Hamburg”
  • Literary Chinese: “漢堡”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamburgas”
  • Lithuanian: “Laisvasis ir Hanzos miestas Hamburgas”
  • Lombard: “Amburgh”
  • Low German: “Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg”
  • Low German: “Hamborg”
  • Low German: “Hambörg”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Hamburg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hamburg”
  • Macedonian: “Хамбург”
  • Malagasy: “Hamburg”
  • Malay: “Hamburg”
  • Malayalam: “ഹാംബർഗ്”
  • Maltese: “Amburgu”
  • Maltese: “Ħamburg”
  • Manx: “Hamburg”
  • Maori: “Hamapaka”
  • Maori: “Hamupēke”
  • Marathi: “हांबुर्ग”
  • Marathi: “हॅम्बुर्ग”
  • Mazanderani: “هامبورگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hamburg”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hamburg”
  • Minangkabau: “Hamburg”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰამბურგი”
  • Moksha: “Гамбург”
  • Mongolian: “Хамбург”
  • Narom: “Hamburg”
  • Nauru: “Hamburg”
  • Neapolitan: “Hamburg”
  • Nepali: “हामबुर्ग”
  • Nepali: “ह्याम्बर्ग”
  • Newari: “ह्याम्बर्ग”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hamborig”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hamborj”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hambörj”
  • Northern Sami: “Hamborg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamburg”
  • Norwegian: “Hamburg”
  • Novial: “Hamburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amborg”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܪܡܝܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܗܐܡܒܘܪܓ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܗܡܒܘܪܓ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hamburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hammaburg”
  • Old Saxon: “Hammaburg [a. 832]”
  • Ossetian: “Гамбург”
  • Pampanga: “Hamburg”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਮਬੁਰਕ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਮਬੁਰਗ”
  • Papiamento: “Hamburg”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Hamburg”
  • Persian: “هامبورگ”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Hamburch”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Hamburg”
  • Picard: “Hambourq”
  • Piemontese: “Amborgh”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hamburg”
  • Polish: “Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg”
  • Polish: “Hamburg”
  • Polish: “Wolne i Hanzeatyckie Miasto Hamburg”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Livre e Hanseática de Hamburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Hamburg”
  • Portuguese: “Hamburgo”
  • Pushto: “هامبورګ”
  • Pushto: “هامبورگ”
  • Quechua: “Hamburg”
  • Romanian: “Hamburg, Germania”
  • Romanian: “Hamburg”
  • Romanian: “Orașul Liber și Hanseatic Hamburg”
  • Romansh: “Hamburg”
  • Russia Buriat: “Һамбург”
  • Russian: “Hamburg”
  • Russian: “Вольный и ганзейский город Гамбург”
  • Russian: “Гамбург”
  • Russian: “Свободный и ганзейский город Гамбург”
  • Russian: “Хамбург”
  • Rusyn: “Гамбург”
  • Samogitian: “Hamburgs”
  • Sardinian: “Amburgo”
  • Sardinian: “Amburgu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hambuurich”
  • Scots: “Hamburgh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hamburg”
  • Serbian: “Hamburg”
  • Serbian: “Хамбург, Немачка”
  • Serbian: “Хамбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamburg”
  • Sicilian: “Amburgu”
  • Silesian: “Hamburg”
  • Sindhi: “ھئمبرگ(شھر)”
  • Sindhi: “ھئمبرگ”
  • Sinhala: “හැම්බර්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Hamburg”
  • Slovenian: “Hamburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هامبورق”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هامبورگ”
  • Spanish: “Hamburgo”
  • Sundanese: “Hamburg”
  • Swahili: “Hamburg”
  • Swedish: “Hamburg”
  • Swiss German: “Hamburg”
  • Syriac: “ܗܡܒܘܪܓ”
  • Tagalog: “Hamburg”
  • Tagalog: “Hamburgo”
  • Tajik: “Ҳамбург”
  • Talysh: “Hamburg”
  • Talysh: “Hamburq”
  • Tamil: “ஆம்பர்கு”
  • Tamil: “ஹாம்பெர்க்”
  • Tamil: “ஹெம்பெர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Һамбург”
  • Telugu: “హ్యాంబర్గ్”
  • Thai: “ฮัมบวร์ค”
  • Thai: “ฮัมบูร์ก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hamburg”
  • Tumbuka: “Hamburg”
  • Turkish: “Hamburg”
  • Turkmen: “Gamburg”
  • Twi: “Hambɔg”
  • Twi: “Hamburg”
  • Uighur: “Hamburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамбурґ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hamburg”
  • Urdu: “ہامبرگ”
  • Urdu: “ہمبورگ”
  • Urdu: “ہیمبرگ”
  • Uzbek: “Gamburg”
  • Uzbek: “Hamburg”
  • Venetian: “Anburgo”
  • Veps: “Gamburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Hamburg”
  • Vlaams: “Hamburg”
  • Vlax Romani: “Hamburg”
  • Volapük: “Hamburg”
  • Walloon: “Hamburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hamburg”
  • Welsh: “Hambro”
  • Welsh: “Hamburg”
  • Welsh: “Hambwrg”
  • Western Armenian: “Համպուրկ”
  • Western Frisian: “Hamboarch”
  • Western Frisian: “Hamburch”
  • Western Mari: “Гамбург”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہامبرگ”
  • Wolof: “Hamburg”
  • Wu Chinese: “汉堡”
  • Xhosa: “Hamburg”
  • Yiddish: “האמבורג”
  • Yiddish: “האַמבורג”
  • Yoruba: “Hamburg”
  • Yue Chinese: “漢堡”
  • Zeeuws: “Hamburg”
  • Zulu: “Hamburg”
  • “Ambûrg”
  • “Hamburg”
  • “Hamburgs”
  • “ma tomo Anpu”
  • “हैम्बर्ग”

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