Harz
The Harz is a low mountain range in the Central Uplands of Germany, famous for its historic silver mines that brought prosperity to the region and to the Electorate of Hanover.
- Mountain rising to 838 metres (2,749 feet)
- Description: low mountain range in northern Germany
- Also known as“Der Harz”“Hartz Mountains”“Harz Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wurmberg and Rathaus Schierke.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schierke and Braunlage.
Harz
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Latitude
51.7562° or 51° 45′ 22″ north
Longitude
10.6346° or 10° 38′ 5″ east
Open location code
9F3GQJ4M+FR
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Harz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال هارز”
- Armenian: “Հարց”
- Basque: “Harz”
- Belarusian: “Гарц”
- Bengali: “হার্জ”
- Bosnian: “Harz”
- Breton: “Harz”
- Bulgarian: “Харц”
- Catalan: “Districte del Harz”
- Catalan: “Harz”
- Cebuano: “Harz”
- Chinese: “哈爾茨山脈”
- Chinese: “哈茨山”
- Czech: “Harz”
- Danish: “Harzen”
- Dutch: “Harz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال هارز”
- Esperanto: “Harco”
- Estonian: “Harz”
- Finnish: “Harz”
- French: “Hartz”
- French: “Harz”
- Georgian: “ჰარცი”
- German: “D37”
- German: “Hartz”
- German: “Harz”
- German: “Silva Hercynia”
- Greek: “Χαρτς (οροσειρά)”
- Hausa: “Harz”
- Hebrew: “הרי הארץ”
- Hebrew: “הרי ההארץ”
- Hindi: “हार्त्स”
- Hungarian: “Harz”
- Icelandic: “Harzfjöll”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Harz”
- Interlingue: “Harz”
- Italian: “Harz”
- Japanese: “ハルツ山地”
- Ladin: “Harz”
- Latin: “Harthici montes”
- Latin: “Silva Hercynia”
- Latvian: “Harcs”
- Lithuanian: “Harcas”
- Low German: “Harz”
- Macedonian: “Харц”
- Malagasy: “Harz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harz”
- Norwegian: “Harz”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Harz”
- Persian: “کوههای هارتس”
- Persian: “کوههای هارتس”
- Persian: “هارتس”
- Polish: “Góry Harz”
- Polish: “Harz”
- Portuguese: “Harz”
- Romanian: “Harz”
- Russian: “Гарц”
- Serbian: “Харц”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Harz”
- Slovak: “Harz”
- Slovenian: “D37”
- Slovenian: “Harz”
- Slovenian: “Silva Hercynia”
- Spanish: “Harz”
- Swedish: “Harz”
- Turkish: “Harz”
- Ukrainian: “Гарц”
- Upper Sorbian: “Smoliny”
- Venetian: “Harz”
- Welsh: “Harz”
- Western Frisian: “Harz”
- Western Panjabi: “ہارز”
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