Lower Saxony
East Frisia
Emsland

Papenburg

Papenburg is a city in the region of Lower Saxony, some 10 km west of the border with the . Thanks to the navigable Ems River, the city is considered Germany's southernmost sea port without being on the seashore.
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  • Type: Town with 34,400 residents
  • Description: German city in Emsland District, Lower Saxony
  • Also known as: “03454041” and “Stadt Papenburg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Papenburg station and Meyers Mühle.

Railway station
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Papenburg is a railway station located in Papenburg, , . The station lies on the Emsland Railway and the train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn and WestfalenBahn.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Photo: Ies, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Völlen.

Village
Photo: Alchemist-hp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Papenburg

Latitude
53.0823° or 53° 4′ 56″ north
Longitude
7.3928° or 7° 23′ 34″ east
Population
34,400
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
9F5939JV+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 117522019
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557467
Wiki­data ID
Q14957
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Papenburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Papenburg”
  • Arabic: “بابنبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Papenburg”
  • Arpitan: “Papenbôrg”
  • Asturian: “Papenburg”
  • Basque: “Papenburg”
  • Bavarian: “Papenburg”
  • Belarusian: “Папенбург”
  • Breton: “Papenburg”
  • Catalan: “Papenburg”
  • Cebuano: “Papenburg”
  • Chechen: “Папенбург”
  • Chinese: “帕彭堡”
  • Corsican: “Papenburg”
  • Corsican: “Papenburgu”
  • Croatian: “Papenburg”
  • Czech: “Papenburg”
  • Danish: “Papenburg”
  • Dutch: “Papenburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بابنبورج”
  • Esperanto: “Papenburg”
  • Estonian: “Papenburg”
  • Finnish: “Papenburg”
  • French: “Papenbourg”
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  • German: “Papenburg”
  • Hungarian: “Papenburg”
  • Icelandic: “Papenburg”
  • Ido: “Papenburg”
  • Indonesian: “Papenburg”
  • Interlingua: “Papenburg”
  • Interlingue: “Papenburg”
  • Irish: “Papenburg”
  • Italian: “Papenburg”
  • Italian: “Papenburgo”
  • Japanese: “パーペンブルク”
  • Japanese: “パペンブルク”
  • Kazakh: “Папенбург”
  • Kirghiz: “Папенбург”
  • Kongo: “Papenburg”
  • Kurdish: “Papenburg”
  • Ladin: “Papenburg”
  • Ligurian: “Papenburg”
  • Limburgan: “Papenburg”
  • Lithuanian: “Papenburgas”
  • Low German: “Papenbörg”
  • Low German: “Papenburg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Papenburg”
  • Macedonian: “Папенбург”
  • Malagasy: “Papenburg”
  • Malay: “Papenburg”
  • Minangkabau: “Papenburg”
  • Narom: “Papenburg”
  • Neapolitan: “Papenburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Papenburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Papenburg”
  • Norwegian: “Papenburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Papènborg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Papenburg”
  • Persian: “پاپنبورگ”
  • Picard: “Papenburg”
  • Piemontese: “Papenburg”
  • Polish: “Papenburg”
  • Portuguese: “Papenburg”
  • Romanian: “Papenburg”
  • Romansh: “Papenburg”
  • Russian: “Папенбург”
  • Sardinian: “Papenburg”
  • Scots: “Papenburg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Papenburg”
  • Serbian: “Papenburg”
  • Serbian: “Папенбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Papenburg”
  • Sicilian: “Papenburg”
  • Slovak: “Papenburg”
  • Slovenian: “Papenburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاپنبورق”
  • Spanish: “Papenburg”
  • Spanish: “Papenburgo”
  • Swahili: “Papenburg”
  • Swedish: “Papenburg”
  • Swiss German: “Papenburg”
  • Tatar: “Папенбург”
  • Tumbuka: “Papenburg”
  • Turkish: “Papenburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Папенбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Папенбурґ”
  • Uzbek: “Papenburg”
  • Venetian: “Papenburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Papenburg”
  • Vlaams: “Papenburg”
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  • Walloon: “Papenburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Papenburg”
  • Welsh: “Papenburg”
  • Western Frisian: “Papenburch”
  • Western Frisian: “Papenburg”
  • Wolof: “Papenburg”
  • Zulu: “Papenburg”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Papenburg”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.