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Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Schwerin

Schwerin is the state capital of . It is famous for its romantic palace, the seven lakes around the city and its well-preserved old town.
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  • Type: Town with 98,600 residents
  • Description: capital city of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
  • Also known as: “Landeshauptstadt Schwerin” and “Zuarin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Staatliches Museum Schwerin and Schwerin Hauptbahnhof.

Museum
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The is an art gallery and museum in Schwerin in Germany. It was established by Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1882 its historicist Haupthaus as the Staatsgalerie next to the Staatstheater.

Railway station
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is the main railway station of the capital of the German state of and is located in the northwest of the central city.

Town hall
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lankow and Klein Rogahn.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4 km northwest of Schwerin.

Village
is a municipality in the district, in , . is situated 5 km southwest of Schwerin.

Village
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is a municipality in the district, in , . The municipality has a seat in the Office of from where it is administered. is situated 6 km west of Schwerin.

Schwerin

Latitude
53.6288° or 53° 37′ 44″ north
Longitude
11.4148° or 11° 24′ 53″ east
Population
98,600
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
IATA airport code
SZW
United Nations Location Code
DE SWR
Open location code
9F5HJCH7+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21993086
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2834282
Wiki­data ID
Q1709
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Schwerin” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Schwerin”
  • Albanian: “Shverini”
  • Arabic: “شفيرين”
  • Arabic: “شورين”
  • Aragonese: “Schwerin”
  • Armenian: “Շվերին”
  • Arpitan: “Schwerin”
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  • Azerbaijani: “Şverin”
  • Basque: “Schwerin”
  • Bavarian: “Schwerin”
  • Belarusian: “Шверын”
  • Belarusian: “Швэрын”
  • Bengali: “শোয়ারিন”
  • Breton: “Schwerin”
  • Bulgarian: “Шверин”
  • Catalan: “Schwerin”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Schwerin”
  • Central Kurdish: “شڤێرین”
  • Chechen: “Шверин”
  • Chinese: “Schwerin”
  • Chinese: “什未林”
  • Chinese: “舒維蓮”
  • Chinese: “詩威林”
  • Chuvash: “Шверин”
  • Corsican: “Schwerin”
  • Croatian: “Schwerin”
  • Czech: “Schwerin”
  • Czech: “Zvěřín”
  • Danish: “Schwerin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şwerin”
  • Dutch: “Schwerin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شفيرين”
  • Esperanto: “Schwerin”
  • Estonian: “Schwerin”
  • Finnish: “Schwerin”
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  • Friulian: “Schwerin”
  • Galician: “Schwerin”
  • Georgian: “შვერინი”
  • German: “Schwerin”
  • German: “Swerin”
  • Greek: “Σβερίν”
  • Gujarati: “શ્વેરિન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Schwerin”
  • Hebrew: “שוורין”
  • Hindi: “श्वेरिन”
  • Hindi: “श्वेरीन”
  • Hungarian: “Schwerin”
  • Icelandic: “Schwerin”
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  • Irish: “Schwerin”
  • Italian: “Schwerin”
  • Japanese: “シュヴェーリン”
  • Japanese: “シュヴェリーン”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ವರೀನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Шверин”
  • Kirghiz: “Шверин”
  • Kongo: “Schwerin”
  • Korean: “슈베린”
  • Kurdish: “Schwerin”
  • Ladin: “Schwerin”
  • Latin: “Suerinum”
  • Latvian: “Šverīne”
  • Ligurian: “Schwerin”
  • Limburgan: “Schwerin”
  • Lithuanian: “Šverinas”
  • Lombard: “Schwerin”
  • Low German: “Schwerin”
  • Low German: “Swerin”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Zwěrin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schwerin”
  • Macedonian: “Шверин”
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  • Malay: “Schwerin”
  • Marathi: “श्वेरिन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Schwerin”
  • Minangkabau: “Schwerin”
  • Mingrelian: “შვერინი”
  • Moksha: “Швэрин”
  • Narom: “Schwerin”
  • Neapolitan: “Schwerin”
  • Nepali: “श्वेरीन”
  • Nepali: “स्भेरिन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Schweriin”
  • Northern Frisian: “Schwerin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schwerin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schwerin”
  • Norwegian: “Schwerin”
  • Novial: “Schwerin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Schwerin”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scwerȳn”
  • Ossetian: “Шверин”
  • Persian: “شورین”
  • Picard: “Schwerin”
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  • Polish: “Schwerin”
  • Polish: “Skwierzyn”
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  • Romansh: “Schwerin”
  • Russian: “Schwerin”
  • Russian: “Шверин (город)”
  • Russian: “Шверин”
  • Rusyn: “Шверін”
  • Sardinian: “Schwerin”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Schwerin”
  • Scots: “Schwerin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Schwerin”
  • Serbian: “Schwerin”
  • Serbian: “Шверин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Schwerin”
  • Sicilian: “Schwerin”
  • Silesian: “Schwerin”
  • Sinhala: “ස්වෙරින්”
  • Slovak: “Schwerin”
  • Slovenian: “Schwerin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شورین”
  • Spanish: “Schwerin”
  • Swahili: “Schwerin”
  • Swedish: “Schwerin”
  • Swiss German: “Schwerin”
  • Tamil: “ச்வரின்”
  • Tatar: “Шверин”
  • Telugu: “ష్వేరిన్”
  • Thai: “ชเวริน”
  • Thai: “ชเวรีน”
  • Turkish: “Schwerin”
  • Turkish: “Swerin”
  • Ukrainian: “Зверін”
  • Ukrainian: “Шверін”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Schwerin”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zwěrin”
  • Urdu: “شورین”
  • Urdu: “شیویرن”
  • Uzbek: “Schwerin”
  • Venetian: “Schwerin”
  • Veps: “Šverin”
  • Vietnamese: “Schwerin”
  • Vlaams: “Schwerin”
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  • Walloon: “Schwerin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Schwerin”
  • Welsh: “Schwerin”
  • Western Frisian: “Schwerin”
  • Wolof: “Schwerin”
  • Wu Chinese: “什未林”
  • Yiddish: “שווערין”
  • Yoruba: “Schwerin”
  • Yue Chinese: “舒維蓮”
  • Zeeuws: “Schwerin”
  • Zulu: “Schwerin”
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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 “Schwerin”. Photo: Kolossos, CC BY-SA 3.0.