Hanover Region
Hanover Region is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Heidekreis, Celle, Gifhorn, Peine, Hildesheim, Hameln-Pyrmont, Schaumburg and Nienburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Hanover and Hildesheim.
Hanover
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Hanover is the capital of Lower Saxony in Germany. 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.
Hildesheim
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Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Leine River.
Nienburg
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Nienburg is a town of 31,000 inhabitants in Lower Saxony. Nienburg is a charming town on the scenic river Weser, with some good places to stay and a rich variety of traditional German food.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Verden an der Aller and Alfeld.
Verden an der Aller
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Verden an der Aller, also called Verden or simply Verden, is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the river Aller. It is the district town of the district of Verden in Lower Saxony and an independent municipality.
Alfeld
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Alfeld is a town in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Located on the Leine river and situated approximately 20 km southwest of Hildesheim, it is the second biggest city in the district of Hildesheim in southern Lower Saxony and part of the Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg.
Bad Salzdetfurth
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Bad Salzdetfurth is a town on the banks of the River Lamme in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Hanover Region
- Type: County with 1,140,000 residents
- Description: district in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “DE929”, “Hannover Region”, “Hanover region”, “Landkreis Hannover”, and “Region Hannover”
- Categories: district of Lower Saxony, special municipality association of Germany, and locality
- Location: Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
52.3797° or 52° 22′ 47″ northLongitude of center
9.7273° or 9° 43′ 38″ eastPopulation
1,140,000Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)Abbreviation
“H”OpenStreetMap ID
node 240092615OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
3221033Wikidata ID
Q5963
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Frisian—“Hanover Region” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሃኖቨር ወረዳ”
- Arabic: “منطقة هانوفر”
- Aragonese: “Rechión de Hannover”
- Armenian: “Հանովեր”
- Basque: “Hannover eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Гановер (раён)”
- Belarusian: “Гановер”
- Belarusian: “раён Гановер”
- Catalan: “regió de Hannover”
- Cebuano: “Region Hannover”
- Chinese: “Region Hanover Kūn”
- Chinese: “汉诺威地区”
- Czech: “Region Hannover”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Hannover”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Region Hannover”
- Danish: “Region Hannover”
- Dutch: “Regio Hannover”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Regiono Hanovro”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Regiono Hanovro”
- Estonian: “Hannoveri piirkond”
- Estonian: “Hannoveri regioon”
- French: “Hanovre”
- French: “région de Hanovre”
- French: “Région de Hanovre”
- Georgian: “ჰანოვერის რაიონი”
- German: “Region Hannover”
- Hebrew: “הנובר”
- Hebrew: “רגיאון הנובר”
- Hungarian: “hannoveri régió”
- Hungarian: “Region Hannover”
- Indonesian: “Hannover”
- Interlingue: “Region Hannover”
- Italian: “Regione di Hannover”
- Japanese: “ハノーファー地区”
- Japanese: “ハノーファー広域連合”
- Kazakh: “Ганновер”
- Ladin: “Region Hannover”
- Latin: “Hannovera”
- Low German: “Region Hannover”
- Macedonian: “Хановер”
- Malay: “Wilayah Hanover”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Region Hanover Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Regiuun Hannover”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Region de Hannover”
- Persian: “هانوفر رگیون”
- Persian: “هانوفر”
- Polish: “Region Hanower”
- Portuguese: “Hanôver”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Hanovra”
- Russian: “Hannover”
- Russian: “Ганновер (район)”
- Russian: “Ганновер”
- Russian: “Регион Ганновера”
- Slovenian: “Regija Hannover”
- Slovenian: “Region Hannover”
- Spanish: “Region de Hannover”
- Spanish: “Región de Hannover”
- Swedish: “Region Hannover”
- Tatar: “Һановер”
- Turkish: “Hannover”
- Turkish: “Region Hannover”
- Ukrainian: “Ганновер”
- Ukrainian: “Район Ганновер”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hanover (rehiyon)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hanover”
- Welsh: “Ardal Hanover”
- Western Frisian: “Regio Hannover”
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