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Lower Saxony
Hanover Region

Hanover

Hanover is the capital of in . Hanover built a huge exhibition complex for the World Expo in 2000 and has been host to several of the biggest exhibitions in the world.
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  • Type: City with 555,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the German federated state of Lower Saxony
  • Also known as: “Hannober”, “Hannover”, “Hannover, Germany”, “Hanover, Germany”, and “Honovere”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lower Saxony Stadium and Museum August Kestner.

Stadium
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Niedersachsenstadion is a football in Hanover, , , which is home to 2. Bundesliga football club Hannover 96. The original 86,000-capacity stadium was completed in 1954 and has since been rebuilt several times for various major football events.

Museum
Photo: Joyofmuseums, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The August Kestner Museum, previously Kestner-Museum, is a in Hanover, Germany. Founded in 1889, the museum was renamed in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the Kestnergesellschaft, a local art gallery.

University
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Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of , Germany. Dating to 1897, it has reorganised and changed names as it developed over the years, most recently in 2010 when it changed from State College of Music and Drama Hanover.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oststadt and Hemmingen.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Town
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is a town in the district of Hanover, in , . It is situated approximately 6 km south of Hanover. Until December 2004, belonged to the Regierungsbezirk Hannover, which was dissolved in January 2005.

Neighborhood
Photo: Bernd Schwabe in Hannover, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood.

Hanover

Latitude
52.3745° or 52° 22′ 28″ north
Longitude
9.7386° or 9° 44′ 19″ east
Population
555,000
Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)
IATA airport code
HAJ
United Nations Location Code
DE HAJ
Open location code
9F4F9PFQ+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1651888734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2910831
Wiki­data ID
Q1715
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hanover” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hannover”
  • Albanian: “Hanoveri”
  • Amharic: “ሃኖቨር”
  • Arabic: “هانوفر”
  • Aragonese: “Hannover”
  • Armenian: “Հաննովեր”
  • Asturian: “Hannover”
  • Aymara: “Hannover”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hannover”
  • Balinese: “Hannover”
  • Bashkir: “Ганновер”
  • Bashkir: “Һанновер”
  • Basque: “Hannover”
  • Bavarian: “Hannova”
  • Bavarian: “Hannover”
  • Belarusian: “Гановер”
  • Belarusian: “Гановэр”
  • Bengali: “হানোফার”
  • Bengali: “হ্যানোভার”
  • Bosnian: “Hannover”
  • Breton: “Hannover”
  • Bulgarian: “Хановер”
  • Burmese: “ဟန်နိုဗာနယ်”
  • Catalan: “Hannover”
  • Catalan: “Landeshauptstadt Hannover”
  • Cebuano: “Hannover (kapital sa estado pederal)”
  • Cebuano: “Hannover”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھانۆفەر”
  • Chavacano: “Hannover”
  • Chechen: “Хановер”
  • Chinese: “Hannover”
  • Chinese: “汉诺威”
  • Chinese: “漢諾威”
  • Chuvash: “Ганновер”
  • Croatian: “Hannover”
  • Czech: “Hannover”
  • Danish: “Hannover”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hanover”
  • Dutch: “Hannover”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هانوفر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هانوڤر”
  • Esperanto: “Hanovro”
  • Estonian: “Hannover”
  • Faroese: “Hannover”
  • Finnish: “Hannover”
  • Finnish: “Hanover”
  • French: “Hannover”
  • French: “Hanovre”
  • Galician: “Hannover”
  • Galician: “Hannóver”
  • Georgian: “ჰანოვერი”
  • German: “Hannover”
  • German: “Landeshauptstadt Hannover”
  • German: “LHH”
  • Greek: “Αννόβερο”
  • Gujarati: “હેનોવર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hanover”
  • Hausa: “Hanover”
  • Hebrew: “האנובר”
  • Hebrew: “הנובר”
  • Hindi: “हनोवर”
  • Hindi: “हन्नोवॆर्”
  • Hindi: “हेनोवर”
  • Hungarian: “Hannover”
  • Icelandic: “Hannover”
  • Ido: “Hannover”
  • Indonesian: “Hannover”
  • Interlingua: “Hannover”
  • Interlingue: “Hannover”
  • Irish: “Hannover”
  • Italian: “Hannover”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Anuova”
  • Japanese: “ハノーヴァー”
  • Japanese: “ハノーバー”
  • Japanese: “ハノーファー”
  • Javanese: “Hanover”
  • Kannada: “ಹನ್ನೋವೆರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾನೋವರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gannover”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ganover”
  • Kazakh: “Ганновер”
  • Kirghiz: “Ганновер”
  • Korean: “하노버”
  • Kurdish: “Hannover”
  • Kurdish: “Hanover”
  • Ladin: “Hannover”
  • Ladin: “Hanover”
  • Latin: “Hannovera”
  • Latvian: “Hannovere”
  • Ligurian: “Hannover”
  • Limburgan: “Hannover”
  • Lithuanian: “Hanoveris”
  • Lombard: “Hannover”
  • Low German: “Hannauver”
  • Low German: “Hannober”
  • Low German: “Hannover”
  • Low German: “Hannower”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Hannover”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hannover”
  • Macedonian: “Хановер”
  • Malagasy: “Hannover”
  • Malay: “Hanover”
  • Malayalam: “ഹാനോവർ”
  • Maltese: “Hannover”
  • Maltese: “Hanover”
  • Marathi: “हानोफर”
  • Mazanderani: “هانوفر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hannover”
  • Minangkabau: “Hannover”
  • Mirandese: “Ḥanóber”
  • Moksha: “Ганновэр”
  • Mongolian: “Ханновер”
  • Nepali: “हनोभर”
  • Nepali: “हेनोवर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hannover”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hannover”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hannover”
  • Norwegian: “Hannover”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hannover”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hānōfer”
  • Ossetian: “Ганновер”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਨੋਫ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “هانوفر”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Hannover”
  • Piemontese: “Hannover”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hannover”
  • Polish: “Hanower”
  • Portuguese: “Hannover”
  • Portuguese: “Hanover, Alemanha”
  • Portuguese: “Hanover”
  • Portuguese: “Hanôver”
  • Pushto: “هانوفر”
  • Pushto: “هانوور”
  • Quechua: “Hannover”
  • Romanian: “Hanovra”
  • Russian: “Hannover”
  • Russian: “Ганновер (город)”
  • Russian: “Ганновер”
  • Rusyn: “Ганновер”
  • Samogitian: “Hanuoveris”
  • Sardinian: “Hannover”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hannover”
  • Scots: “Hanover”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hànobhar”
  • Serbian: “Хановер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hannover”
  • Sicilian: “Hannover”
  • Silesian: “Hanowery”
  • Sindhi: “ھنور”
  • Sinhala: “හැනොවර්”
  • Slovak: “Hannover”
  • Slovenian: “Hannover”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هانوفر”
  • Spanish: “Hannover”
  • Spanish: “Hanóver”
  • Swahili: “Hannover”
  • Swedish: “Hannover”
  • Swiss German: “Hannover”
  • Tagalog: “Hannover”
  • Tajik: “Ганновер”
  • Tajik: “Ҳанновер”
  • Tajik: “Ҳаннофер”
  • Talysh: “Hannover”
  • Tamil: “ஹனோவர்”
  • Tatar: “Hannover”
  • Tatar: “Һанновер”
  • Telugu: “హానోవర్”
  • Thai: “ฮันโนเฟอร์”
  • Thai: “ฮันโนเวอร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hannover”
  • Tumbuka: “Hanover”
  • Turkish: “Hannover, Almanya”
  • Turkish: “Hannover”
  • Turkish: “Hanover, Almanya”
  • Turkish: “Hanover”
  • Twi: “Hannover”
  • Uighur: “Hanofér”
  • Ukrainian: “Hannover”
  • Ukrainian: “Ганновер”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hannover”
  • Urdu: “ہانوور”
  • Urdu: “ہینور”
  • Uzbek: “Hannover”
  • Venetian: “Hannover”
  • Veps: “Gannover”
  • Vietnamese: “Hannover”
  • Volapük: “Hannover”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hanover”
  • Welsh: “Hannover”
  • Western Armenian: “Հանովըր”
  • Western Frisian: “Hannover”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہینوور”
  • Wu Chinese: “汉诺威”
  • Xhosa: “IHanoveri”
  • Yakut: “Ганновэр”
  • Yiddish: “האנאווער”
  • Yoruba: “Hanover”
  • Yue Chinese: “漢諾威”
  • Zeeuws: “Hannover”
  • “Hannover”
  • “Hanuoveris”

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