Germany
Schleswig-Holstein
Kiel Bay

Kiel

Kiel is a maritime city and has been for a long time, it remains one of Germany main passenger ports. It is on the Baltic Sea at the end of the "Kieler Förde".
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  • Type: City with 246,000 residents
  • Description: German city, capital of Schleswig-Holstein
  • Also known as: “Kyle”
  • Postal code: 24110

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wunderino Arena and Kunsthalle Kiel.

Stadium
Photo: KarleHorn, CC BY 3.0.
The is an indoor arena, in Kiel, Germany. It is primarily used by THW Kiel and as a venue for rock/pop concerts. It holds up to 13,500 people.

Museum
Photo: VollwertBIT, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Kunsthalle zu Kiel is an art museum in the German city of Kiel. With 2,000 square metres of display space, it is the largest museum in the city. It is north of the city centre on Düsternbrooker Weg.

Library
Photo: Gerd Fahrenhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Library of Economics is the world's largest research infrastructure for economic literature, online as well as offline. The ZBW is a member of the Leibniz Association and has been a foundation under public law since 2007.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kronshagen and Elmschenhagen.

Village
Photo: Rüdiger Stehn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipality in the district of , in , . It is situated approximately 23 km southeast of , and 3 km west of Kiel.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Kiel

Latitude
54.3227° or 54° 19′ 22″ north
Longitude
10.1356° or 10° 8′ 8″ east
Population
246,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
KEL
United Nations Location Code
DE KEL
Open location code
9F6G84FP+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 24487450
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2891122
Wiki­data ID
Q1707
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kiel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kiel, Duitsland”
  • Albanian: “Kiel”
  • Albanian: “Kieli”
  • Amharic: “ኪል”
  • Arabic: “كيل”
  • Aragonese: “Kiel”
  • Armenian: “Քիլ”
  • Arpitan: “Kiel”
  • Asturian: “Kiel”
  • Aymara: “Kiel”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kil”
  • Balinese: “Kiel”
  • Bashkir: “Киль (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Киль”
  • Basque: “Kiel”
  • Bavarian: “Kiel”
  • Belarusian: “Кіль”
  • Bengali: “কিল”
  • Bosnian: “Kiel”
  • Breton: “Kiel”
  • Bulgarian: “Кил”
  • Catalan: “Kiel”
  • Cebuano: “Kiel”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیل”
  • Chechen: “Киль (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Киль”
  • Chinese: “Kiel”
  • Chinese: “基尔”
  • Chinese: “基爾”
  • Chuvash: “Киль”
  • Corsican: “Kiel”
  • Croatian: “Kiel”
  • Czech: “Kiel”
  • Danish: “Kiel”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kiel”
  • Dutch: “Kiel”
  • Esperanto: “Kiel”
  • Esperanto: “Kijlo”
  • Esperanto: “Kilo”
  • Estonian: “Kiel”
  • Extremaduran: “Kiel”
  • Faroese: “Kiel”
  • Finnish: “Kiel”
  • French: “Kiel”
  • Friulian: “Kiel”
  • Galician: “Kiel”
  • Georgian: “კილი”
  • German: “Chilomium”
  • German: “Kiel”
  • German: “Landeshauptstadt Kiel”
  • Greek: “Κίελο”
  • Gujarati: “કિએલ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kiel”
  • Hausa: “Kiel”
  • Hebrew: “קיל”
  • Hindi: “काइल”
  • Hungarian: “Kiel”
  • Icelandic: “Kíl”
  • Ido: “Kiel”
  • Indonesian: “Kiel”
  • Interlingua: “Kiel”
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  • Irish: “Kiel”
  • Italian: “Kiel”
  • Japanese: “キール”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಯೆಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕೀಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Киль”
  • Kirghiz: “Киль”
  • Kongo: “Kiel”
  • Korean: “킬”
  • Kurdish: “Kiel”
  • Ladin: “Kiel”
  • Ladino: “Kiel”
  • Latin: “Kielia”
  • Latvian: “Ķīle”
  • Ligurian: “Kiel”
  • Limburgan: “Kiel”
  • Lithuanian: “Kylis”
  • Lombard: “Kiel”
  • Low German: “Kiel”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kiel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kiel”
  • Macedonian: “Кил”
  • Malagasy: “Kiel”
  • Malay: “Kiel”
  • Malayalam: “കീൽ”
  • Manx: “Kiel”
  • Marathi: “कील”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kiel”
  • Minangkabau: “Kiel”
  • Mingrelian: “კილი (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “კილი”
  • Mongolian: “Киль”
  • Narom: “Kiel”
  • Neapolitan: “Kiel”
  • Nepali: “काइल”
  • Nepali: “किल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kil”
  • Northern Sami: “Kiel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiel”
  • Norwegian: “Kiel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kiel”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܝܠ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kīl”
  • Ossetian: “Киль”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੀਲ”
  • Persian: “کیل”
  • Picard: “Kiel”
  • Piemontese: “Kiel”
  • Polish: “Kiel”
  • Polish: “Kilonia”
  • Portuguese: “Kiel”
  • Portuguese: “Quiel”
  • Quechua: “Kiel”
  • Romanian: “Kiel”
  • Romansh: “Kiel”
  • Russian: “Kiel”
  • Russian: “Киль (город)”
  • Russian: “Киль”
  • Sardinian: “Kiel”
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  • Scots: “Kiel”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kiel”
  • Serbian: “Kiel”
  • Serbian: “Kil”
  • Serbian: “Кил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kiel”
  • Sicilian: “Kiel”
  • Silesian: “Kiel”
  • Sinhala: “කීල්”
  • Slovak: “Kiel”
  • Slovenian: “Kiel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیل”
  • Spanish: “Kiel”
  • Swahili: “Kiel”
  • Swedish: “Kiel”
  • Swiss German: “Kiel”
  • Tajik: “Кил”
  • Tamil: “கீல்”
  • Tatar: “Кил”
  • Telugu: “కీల్”
  • Thai: “คีล”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kiel”
  • Tumbuka: “Kiel”
  • Turkish: “Chilomium”
  • Turkish: “Kiel”
  • Turkish: “Landeshauptstadt Kiel”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kiel”
  • Urdu: “کائل”
  • Urdu: “کیل”
  • Uzbek: “Kiel”
  • Venetian: “Kiel”
  • Veps: “Kil‘ (lidn)”
  • Veps: “Kil’”
  • Vietnamese: “Kiel”
  • Vlaams: “Kiel”
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  • Walloon: “Kiel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kiel”
  • Welsh: “Kiel”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiel”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیل”
  • Wolof: “Kiel”
  • Wu Chinese: “基尔”
  • Yiddish: “קיל”
  • Yoruba: “Kiel”
  • Yue Chinese: “基爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Kiel”
  • Zulu: “Kiel”
  • “Kiel”

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