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Thuringia is one of the least known states amongst foreign travellers but enjoys a good reputation with local holidaymakers. A predominantly mountainous and forested region, Thuringia is also known for a quartet of beautiful ancient cities and the…
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is the capital of the German state of Thuringia. The city is the largest one in that province and likewise a major transportation hub.

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is the town of Goethe and Schiller and is found in Thuringia state, . It is one of the all-time favourites with German school classes because of the high density of cultural and historic sights. In 2020, it was home to 65,000 people.

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is a city in the central state of Thuringia. It is a centre of science and technology with a reputable university, several research institutes and high-tech plants, especially focusing on precision mechanics and optical industries.

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is a city in Thuringia in . The city is one of the most important tourist destinations in Thuringia. Sights include some retained buildings of the royal residence epoque and many public and private buildings from the economic heyday between 1870 and 1930.

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is a city in Thuringia, . It is famous both as the birthplace of the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as the city where Martin Luther lived as a child.

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is a city of 37,000 people in Thuringia. offers over 300 km of cycling and hiking trails and over 100 km of ski trails in its territory. and its northern neighbour Zella-Mehlis form the largest urban area in the Thuringian Forest.

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is a city of 45,000 people in Thuringia. The main sights of are the early-modern Friedenstein Castle, one of the largest Renaissance Baroque castles in Germany, the medieval city centre and the Gründerzeit buildings of 19th-century commercial boom.

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is a town of 41,000 people in Thuringia. It is part of the greater area. It is the urban centre of northern Thuringia and the southern Harz region.

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is a town in the northwest of Thuringia, Germany, 5 km north of , the country's geographical centre, 50 km north-west of , 65 km east of and 50 km south-east of .

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is a town in Germany, capital of the district of Thuringia. It is best known internationally as the ancestral seat of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha branch of the Saxon House of Wettin.

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is a town in the German federal state Thuringia, within the , to the southwest, and to and to the north. The former capital of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the town is built along the River inside a wide valley surrounded by woods.

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is a town of 24,000 people in Southern Thuringia. It has long been a centre of toy-making. It is the home of PIKO, a model railway manufacturer which became one of the few such enterprises in the Warsaw Pact countries and supplied model trains depicting railway stock of all the Soviet bloc countries.

Thuringia

Latitude of center
50.9015° or 50° 54′ 5″ north
Longitude of center
11.0378° or 11° 2′ 16″ east
Population
2,270,000
Elevation
266 metres (873 feet)
Abbreviation
“TH”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 473883922
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2822542
Wiki­data ID
Q1205
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Thuringia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Thüringen”
  • Albanian: “Turingia”
  • Albanian: “Tyringia”
  • Amharic: “ቲውሪንገን”
  • Arabic: “تورنغن”
  • Arabic: “تورينغن”
  • Aragonese: “Turinchia”
  • Armenian: “Թյուրինգիա”
  • Armenian: “Թուրինգիա”
  • Asturian: “Turinxa”
  • Aymara: “Thüringen suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Türingiya”
  • Balinese: “Thuringia”
  • Bashkir: “Тюрингия”
  • Basque: “Turingia”
  • Bavarian: “Thüringen”
  • Belarusian: “Турынгія”
  • Belarusian: “Цюрынгія”
  • Bengali: “টুরিঙেন”
  • Bosnian: “Tiringija”
  • Breton: “Thüringen”
  • Bulgarian: “Тюрингия”
  • Catalan: “Turíngia”
  • Cebuano: “Thuringia”
  • Central Kurdish: “تویرینگن”
  • Chechen: “Туьринген”
  • Chinese: “Thüringen”
  • Chinese: “图林根”
  • Chinese: “图林根州”
  • Chinese: “图林根自由州”
  • Chinese: “圖林根州”
  • Chinese: “圖林根邦”
  • Chinese: “圖靈根”
  • Chinese: “圖靈根州”
  • Cornish: “Thüringen”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Türingiya”
  • Croatian: “Thüringen”
  • Croatian: “Tiringija”
  • Croatian: “Tirinška”
  • Czech: “Durynsko”
  • Czech: “Freistaat Thüringen”
  • Czech: “Svobodný stát Durynsko”
  • Czech: “Thüringen”
  • Danish: “Freistaat Thüringen”
  • Danish: “Thüringen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Thuringiya”
  • Dutch: “Thüringen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تورينجن”
  • Esperanto: “Turingio”
  • Estonian: “Tüüringi”
  • Finnish: “Thüringen”
  • French: “DE-TH”
  • French: “État libre de Thuringe”
  • French: “TH”
  • French: “Thuringe”
  • Friulian: “Turingje”
  • Galician: “Thüringen”
  • Galician: “Turinxia”
  • Georgian: “თიურინგია”
  • German: “DE-TH”
  • German: “Freistaat Thüringen”
  • German: “TH”
  • German: “Thüringen”
  • Greek: “Θουριγγία”
  • Guarani: “Turingia”
  • Gujarati: “થુરિન્જિયા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thuringia”
  • Hawaiian: “Tulinia”
  • Hebrew: “תורינגיה”
  • Hindi: “ठुरुंगिया”
  • Hindi: “थुरिंगिया”
  • Hungarian: “Türingia”
  • Icelandic: “Þýringaland”
  • Ido: “Turingia”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Merdeka Thuringia”
  • Indonesian: “Thüringen”
  • Indonesian: “Thuringia”
  • Interlingua: “Thuringia”
  • Interlingue: “Thuringia”
  • Irish: “Thüringen”
  • Italian: “Turingia”
  • Japanese: “テューリンゲン州”
  • Javanese: “Thüringen”
  • Kannada: “ತುರಿಂಗಿಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Тюрингия”
  • Kirghiz: “Тюрингия”
  • Kölsch: “Thüringe”
  • Kongo: “Thüringen”
  • Korean: “튀링겐 자유주”
  • Korean: “튀링겐”
  • Korean: “튀링겐주”
  • Kurdish: “Thüringen”
  • Kurdish: “Turîngiya”
  • Ladin: “Thüringen”
  • Ladino: “Turinjia”
  • Latin: “Thuringia”
  • Latvian: “Tīringene”
  • Ligurian: “Turingia”
  • Limburgan: “Turinge”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiuringija”
  • Lithuanian: “Turingia”
  • Lombard: “Türingia”
  • Low German: “Döringen”
  • Low German: “Tureng”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Durinska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Thüringen”
  • Macedonian: “Тирингија”
  • Malagasy: “Thüringen”
  • Malay: “Thüringen”
  • Malayalam: “തുറിഞ്ചിയ”
  • Manx: “Thüringen”
  • Marathi: “थ्युरिंगेन”
  • Mazanderani: “تورینگن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Thüringen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thüringen”
  • Minangkabau: “Thüringen”
  • Mingrelian: “თიურინგია”
  • Moksha: “Тюрингия”
  • Mongolian: “Тюринг”
  • Nepali: “टुरिङेन”
  • Nepali: “ठुरुंगिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tüüringen”
  • Northern Sami: “Thüringen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Freistaat Thüringen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fristaten Thüringen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thüringen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thüringen”
  • Norwegian: “Thüringen”
  • Novial: “Turingia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Turíngia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þyringaland”
  • Ossetian: “Тюринги”
  • Pampanga: “Thuringia”
  • Papiamento: “Freistaat Thüringen”
  • Persian: “تورینگن”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Thüringen”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Tiiringä”
  • Piemontese: “Turingia”
  • Polish: “Freistaat Thüringen”
  • Polish: “Thuringia”
  • Polish: “Turyngia”
  • Polish: “Wolny Kraj Turyngia”
  • Portuguese: “Turíngia”
  • Pushto: “تورینګن”
  • Quechua: “Thüringen”
  • Romanian: “Statul Liber Turingia”
  • Romanian: “Turingia”
  • Romansh: “Turinga”
  • Russian: “Тюрингия”
  • Sardinian: “Turìngia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Thüringen”
  • Scots: “Thuringie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Thüringen”
  • Serbian: “Тирингија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tiringija”
  • Sicilian: “Turingia”
  • Sindhi: “ٿرينجيا”
  • Sinhala: “තුරින්ජියා”
  • Slovak: “Durínsko”
  • Slovenian: “Turingija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تورینقن”
  • Spanish: “Thüringen”
  • Spanish: “Turingia”
  • Swahili: “Thuringia”
  • Swedish: “Thüringen”
  • Swiss German: “Thüringe”
  • Swiss German: “Thüringen”
  • Tagalog: “Turingia”
  • Tajik: “Тӯринген”
  • Tamil: “துரின்ஜியா”
  • Tamil: “துறிஞ்சியா”
  • Tatar: “Түрингия”
  • Telugu: “తురింగియా”
  • Thai: “รัฐทือริงเงิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Thüringen”
  • Turkish: “Thüringen”
  • Turkish: “Türingiya”
  • Ukrainian: “Тюрингія”
  • Ukrainian: “Тюринґія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Durinska”
  • Urdu: “تورینگن”
  • Uzbek: “Turingiya”
  • Venetian: “Turinxa”
  • Venetian: “Turinza”
  • Vietnamese: “Thüringen”
  • Vlaams: “Thüringen”
  • Volapük: “Türinän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thüringen”
  • Welsh: “Thüringen”
  • Western Armenian: “Թուրինկիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Tueringen”
  • Western Frisian: “Türingen”
  • Western Panjabi: “تھورنگیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “图林根”
  • Yiddish: “טורינגיע”
  • Yoruba: “Thuringia”
  • Yue Chinese: “圖靈根”
  • Zeeuws: “Thüringen”
  • “Thüringen”
  • “Turìngia”

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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 “Thuringia”. Photo: Eremeev, CC BY-SA 4.0.