Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost state of . Situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east, it shares a northern border with and is bounded to the south by the states of , , and .
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is the capital city of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and a major maritime hub on the Baltic Sea. Situated at the end of the "Kieler Förde", the city has a population of roughly 250,000 and remains one of Germany's main passenger ports.

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The Hanseatic City of is one of the major ports on the Baltic Sea and the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, situated at the mouth of the river Trave.

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is a city on the east coast of Schleswig-Holstein. The 90,000 inhabitants live around the Flensburger Förde. Its main claim to fame is that it sits on the border with Denmark, so there is lots of shopping. There are several museums too.

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The of Schleswig-Holstein includes some of Germany's most popular beach destinations.

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The northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein faces , the southwesternmost corner of the Baltic Sea.

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the eastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, stretching north and south of .

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comprises the southernmost part of Schleswig-Holstein forming a horseshoe right north of .

Schleswig-Holstein

Latitude of center
54.1854° or 54° 11′ 7″ north
Longitude of center
9.822° or 9° 49′ 19″ east
Population
2,830,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Abbreviation
“SH”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 473890961
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2838632
Wiki­data ID
Q1194
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Schleswig-Holstein” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Afrikaans: “Sleeswyk-Holstein”
  • Albanian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Albanian: “Shlesvig-Holshtajni”
  • Amharic: “ሽለስቭክ-ሖልሽታይን”
  • Arabic: “شلسفيغ هولشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شلسفيغ-هولشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليزفيغ-هولسشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليزفيغ-هولشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليسفغ هولسشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليسفغ-هولسشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليسفغ-هولشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليسفيش هولشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليسفيغ هولشتاين”
  • Arabic: “شليسفيغ-هولستاين”
  • Arabic: “شليسفيغ-هولشتاين”
  • Aragonese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Armenian: “Շլեզվիգ-Հոլշտայն”
  • Asturian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Aymara: “Schleswig-Holstein suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şlezviq-Holşteyn”
  • Balinese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Basque: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Bavarian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Belarusian: “Шлезвіг-Гальштэйн”
  • Belarusian: “Шлезвіг-Гольштэйн”
  • Belarusian: “Шлезьвіг-Гальштайн”
  • Bengali: “শ্লেসভিগ-হলষ্টাইন”
  • Bengali: “শ্লেসভিগ-হলস্টাইন”
  • Bosnian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Breton: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Bulgarian: “Шлезвиг-Холщайн”
  • Catalan: “Slesvig-Holstein”
  • Cebuano: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Central Kurdish: “شلێسڤیگ-ھۆلشتاین”
  • Chechen: “Шлезвиг-Гольштейн”
  • Chinese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Chinese: “什列斯威-好斯敦”
  • Chinese: “什列斯威-荷斯坦邦”
  • Chinese: “什列斯威-霍爾斯坦”
  • Chinese: “什列斯维希—霍尔施坦”
  • Chinese: “什霍邦”
  • Chinese: “士叻斯域－荷斯地因”
  • Chinese: “石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因”
  • Chinese: “石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因州”
  • Chinese: “石勒蘇益格-荷爾斯泰因”
  • Chinese: “石荷州”
  • Chuvash: “Шлезвиг-Хольштайн”
  • Cornish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şlezvig-Golşteyn”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şlezvig-Holştayn”
  • Croatian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Czech: “Šlesvicko-Holštýnsko”
  • Danish: “Slesvig-Holsten”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şleswig-Holştayn”
  • Dutch: “Sleeswijk-Holstein”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شليسڤيج هولشتاين”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝlesvigo-Holstinio”
  • Estonian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Faroese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Finnish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Finnish: “Slesvig-Holstein”
  • French: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Friulian: “Slesie-Holstein”
  • Galician: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Georgian: “შლეზვიგ-ჰოლშტაინი”
  • German: “DE-SH”
  • German: “Land Schleswig-Holstein”
  • German: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Gilaki: “اشلسویگ-هولشتاین”
  • Gilaki: “شلسويگ-هؤلشتاین”
  • Greek: “Σλέσβιχ-Χολστάιν”
  • Greek: “Σλέσβιχ-Χόλσταϊν”
  • Guarani: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Gujarati: “સ્કલેસ્વિગ-હોલસ્ટેઇન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Hausa: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Hebrew: “שלזוויג-הולשטיין”
  • Hindi: “श्लेसविग-होलश्टाइन”
  • Hindi: “श्लेसविग-होल्सटीन”
  • Hungarian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Icelandic: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Icelandic: “Slésvík-Holtsetaland”
  • Ido: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Indonesian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Interlingua: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Interlingua: “Silesia-Holsteinia”
  • Interlingue: “Schleswig-Holsteinia”
  • Irish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Italian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Japanese: “シュレースヴィヒ＝ホルシュタインの歴史”
  • Japanese: “シュレースヴィヒ＝ホルシュタイン州”
  • Javanese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ಲೆಸ್ವಿಗ್-ಹೋಲ್ಸ್ಟೈನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shlezvig-Golshteyn”
  • Kashmiri: “شیٚلوِگ-ہولسٹیٖن”
  • Kazakh: “Шлезвиг-Гольштейн”
  • Kirghiz: “Шлесвик-Гөлштейн”
  • Kölsch: “Schleswij-Holsteijn”
  • Kongo: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Korean: “슐레스비히홀슈타인 주”
  • Korean: “슐레스비히홀슈타인”
  • Korean: “슐레스비히홀슈타인주”
  • Kurdish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Ladin: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Ladino: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Ladino: “שלישביג-עולשטײן”
  • Latin: “Slesvicum et Holsatia”
  • Latvian: “Šlēsviga-Holšteina”
  • Ligurian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Limburgan: “Sjleeswiek-Holstein”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Lithuanian: “Šlėzvigas-Holšteinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Šlėzvigas‑Holšteinas”
  • Lombard: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Low German: “Sleeswiek-Holstain”
  • Low German: “Sleeswig-Holsteen”
  • Low German: “Sleswig-Holsteen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Šleswig-Holštejnska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Macedonian: “Шлезвиг-Холштајн”
  • Malagasy: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Malay: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Malayalam: “ഷ്ലെസ്വിഗ്-ഹോൾസ്റ്റൈൻ”
  • Maltese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Manx: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Marathi: “श्लेस्विग-होल्श्टाइन”
  • Mazanderani: “شلسویگ-هولشتاین”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Mingrelian: “შლეზვიგ-ჰოლშტაინი”
  • Mongolian: “Шлесвиг-Хольштайн”
  • Nepali: “श्लेसविग-होल्सटीन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Schleswig-Holstian”
  • Northern Frisian: “Slaswik-Holstiinj”
  • Northern Sami: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Northern Sami: “Slesvig-Holsten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Norwegian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Novial: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sillende and Holtsæte”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sillende-Holtsæte”
  • Oromo: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Ossetian: “Шлезвиг-Гольштейн”
  • Pampanga: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਲੇਸਵਿਗ-ਹੋਲਸਟਾਈਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Persian: “اشلسویگ-هولشتاین”
  • Persian: “شلسویگ-هولشتاین”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Schläswisch-Holschdä”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Piemontese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Polish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Polish: “Szlezwik-Holsztyn”
  • Portuguese: “Eslésvico-Holsácia”
  • Portuguese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Pushto: “شلسویګ-هولشتاین”
  • Quechua: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Romanian: “DE-SH”
  • Romanian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Romansh: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Russian: “Земля Шлезвиг-Гольштейн”
  • Russian: “Шлезвиг-Гольштейн”
  • Sardinian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Släswiek-Holstein”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Släswiek-Holsten”
  • Scots: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Serbian: “Шлезвиг-Холштајн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Sindhi: “شليس وگ ھوليسٽن”
  • Sinhala: “ශ්ලෙස්විග්-හොල්ස්ටයින්”
  • Slovak: “Šlezvicko-Holštajnsko”
  • Slovenian: “DE-SH”
  • Slovenian: “Schleswig - Holstein”
  • Slovenian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Somali: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شلسویق-هولشتاین”
  • Spanish: “DE-SH”
  • Spanish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Swahili: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Swedish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Swedish: “Slesvig-Holstein”
  • Swiss German: “Schleswig-Holstei”
  • Swiss German: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Tagalog: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Tajik: “Шлезвиг-Ҳолштайн”
  • Tamil: “சிலெஸ்விக்-ஹொல்ஸ்டெயின்”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்சல்ஸ்விக் -ஹோல்ச்டயின்”
  • Tatar: “Шлезвиг-Һольштейн”
  • Telugu: “ష్లెస్విగ్-హోల్‌స్టీన్”
  • Thai: “รัฐชเลสวิช-ฮ็อลชไตน์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Turkish: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Ukrainian: “Шлезвіґ-Гольштайн”
  • Ukrainian: “Шлезвіг-Гольштейн”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Schleswigsko-Holsteinska”
  • Urdu: “شلسویگ-ہولشتائن”
  • Uzbek: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Venetian: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Vietnamese: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Vlaams: “Sleeswyk-Holstein”
  • Volapük: “Jlesvigän-Holstän”
  • Volapük: “Jlesvigän⸗Holstän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Welsh: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Western Armenian: “Շլեզուիք- Հոլսթայն”
  • Western Frisian: “Sleeswyk-Holstein”
  • Western Panjabi: “شلیسوگ ہولسٹاین”
  • Wu Chinese: “石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因”
  • Yiddish: “שלעזוויג-האלשטיין”
  • Yoruba: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Yue Chinese: “舒勒斯維－荷斯泰因”
  • Zeeuws: “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • “SH”

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