Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven is in . The city's population in 2018 was about 76,000. Wilhelmshaven's main claim to fame is its connection to the sea and its function as a harbour.
  • Town with about 75,300 residents
  • …has the IATA airport code WVN
  • Description: city in Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Bant and German destroyer Mölders.
, or Banter See in German, is an artificial…
Mölders was one of three Lütjens-class guided-missile…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rüstringer Stadtpark and Mariensiel.
is a village, which is situated 4 km southwest of Wilhelmshaven.
is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km north of Wilhelmshaven.
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Latitude
53.5279° or 53° 31′ 40″ north
Longitude
8.1063° or 8° 6′ 23″ east
UN/LOCODE
DE WVN
Open location code
9F5CG4H4+5G
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wilhelmshaven” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Arabic: “فيلهلمسهافن”
  • Aragonese: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Armenian: “Վիլհելմսհաֆեն”
  • Arpitan: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Asturian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vilhelmshafen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vilhelmshaven”
  • Basque: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Bavarian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Belarusian: “Вільгельмсгафен”
  • Belarusian: “Вільгельмсхафен”
  • Belarusian: “Вільгэльмсгафэн”
  • Breton: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Bulgarian: “Вилхелмсхафен”
  • Catalan: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Wilhelmshaven”
  • Cebuano: “Wilhelmshaven (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Chechen: “Вильгельмсхафен”
  • Chinese: “威廉斯港”
  • Chinese: “威廉港”
  • Corsican: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Croatian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Czech: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Danish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Dutch: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤيلهيلمسهاڤين”
  • Esperanto: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Estonian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Finnish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • French: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Friulian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Galician: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • German: “WHV”
  • German: “Wilhelmshafen”
  • German: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Greek: “Βιλχελμσχάφεν”
  • Hebrew: “וילהלמסהאפן”
  • Hindi: “विल्हेल्म्सहाफ़न”
  • Hungarian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Icelandic: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Ido: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Indonesian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Interlingua: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Interlingue: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Irish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Italian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Japanese: “ヴィルヘルムスハーフェン”
  • Jèrriais: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Kongo: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Korean: “빌헬름스하펜”
  • Kotava: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Kurdish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Ladin: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Latin: “Portus Gulielmi”
  • Latin: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Latvian: “Vilhelmshāfene”
  • Ligurian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Limburgan: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilhelmshafenas”
  • Low German: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Low German: “Willemshaven”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Macedonian: “Вилхелмсхафен”
  • Malagasy: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Malay: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Marathi: “विल्हेम्सहाफेन”
  • Minangkabau: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Moksha: “Вильгэльмсгафэн”
  • Neapolitan: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wilhelmshuuwen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Norwegian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Willelmeshæfen”
  • Ossetian: “Вильгельмсхафен”
  • Persian: “ویلهلمس‌هافن”
  • Persian: “ویلهمسهافن”
  • Picard: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Piemontese: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Polish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Portuguese: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Romanian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Romansh: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Russian: “Вильгельмсхафен”
  • Sardinian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wülmshoawen”
  • Scots: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Serbian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Serbian: “Вилхелмсхафен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Sicilian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Slovak: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Slovenian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویلهمسهافن”
  • Spanish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Swahili: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Swedish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Swiss German: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Tatar: “Вилһелмсһафен”
  • Thai: “วิลเฮ็ลมส์ฮาเฟิน”
  • Tumbuka: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Turkish: “Wilhelmshafen”
  • Turkish: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Ukrainian: “Вільгельмсгафен”
  • Urdu: “ولہلمز ہیون”
  • Uzbek: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Venetian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Vlaams: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Volapük: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Walloon: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Welsh: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Western Frisian: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Wolof: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Wu Chinese: “威廉港”
  • Zeeuws: “Wilhelmshaven”
  • Zulu: “Wilhelmshaven”

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