Papenburg
Papenburg is a city in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony, some 10 km west of the border with the Netherlands. Thanks to the navigable Ems River, the city is considered Germany's southernmost sea port without being on the seashore.
- Type: Town with 34,400 residents
- Description: German city in Emsland District, Lower Saxony
- Also known as: “03454041”, “Papenburgu”, “Stadt Papenburg”, and “パペンブルク”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Meyers Mühle and St. Antonius.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Völlen.
Papenburg
- Categories: city, independent community, urban municipality in Germany, Einheitsgemeinde of Lower Saxony, and locality
- Location: Emsland, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.0773° or 53° 4′ 38″ north
Longitude
7.411° or 7° 24′ 40″ east
Population
34,400
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
9F593CG6+WC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Balinese: “Papenburg”
- Basque: “Papenburg”
- Bavarian: “Papenburg”
- Belarusian: “Папенбург”
- Breton: “Papenburg”
- Catalan: “Papenburg”
- Cebuano: “Papenburg”
- Chechen: “Папенбург”
- Chinese: “帕彭堡”
- Corsican: “Papenburg”
- Croatian: “Papenburg”
- Czech: “Papenburg”
- Danish: “Papenburg”
- Dutch: “Papenburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بابنبورج”
- Esperanto: “Papenburg”
- Estonian: “Papenburg”
- Finnish: “Papenburg”
- French: “Papenbourg”
- Friulian: “Papenburg”
- Galician: “Papenburg”
- German: “Papenburg”
- Hungarian: “Papenburg”
- Icelandic: “Papenburg”
- Ido: “Papenburg”
- Indonesian: “Papenburg”
- Interlingua: “Papenburg”
- Interlingue: “Papenburg”
- Irish: “Papenburg”
- Italian: “Papenburg”
- Japanese: “パーペンブルク”
- Jèrriais: “Papenburg”
- 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”
- Neapolitan: “Papenburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Papenburg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Papenburg”
- Norwegian: “Papenburg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Papènborg”
- 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: “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”
- Volapük: “Papenburg”
- Walloon: “Papenburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Papenburg”
- Welsh: “Papenburg”
- Western Frisian: “Papenburch”
- Wolof: “Papenburg”
- Zulu: “Papenburg”
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Places to explore: Untenende and Kapitänsviertel.
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