Germany
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Nordwestmecklenburg

Wismar

Wismar is a city in which lies on the Baltic Sea coast. The historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Town with 42,600 residents
  • Description: city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
  • Also known as: “Hansestadt Wismar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wismar Theatre and Saint Nicolai.

Theater building
The is located on the site of the University of Wismar on Phillip-Müller-Straße in the Hanseatic Town of Wismar.

Church
Photo: Rabanus Flavus, Public domain.
St. Nicholas of Wismar was built from 1381 until 1487 as a church for sailors and fishermen. St. Nicholas is one of the finest testaments to medieval brick architecture in northern .

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Wismar

Latitude
53.891° or 53° 53′ 28″ north
Longitude
11.4648° or 11° 27′ 53″ east
Population
42,600
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE WIS
Open location code
9F5HVFR7+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240060956
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2807465
Wiki­data ID
Q7030
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wismar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wismar”
  • Arabic: “فيسمار”
  • Arabic: “ويسمار”
  • Aragonese: “Wismar”
  • Armenian: “Վիսմար”
  • Arpitan: “Wismar”
  • Asturian: “Wismar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vismar”
  • Balinese: “Wismar”
  • Bashkir: “Висмар”
  • Basque: “Wismar”
  • Bavarian: “Wismar”
  • Belarusian: “Вісмар”
  • Breton: “Wismar”
  • Bulgarian: “Визмар”
  • Bulgarian: “Висмар”
  • Catalan: “Wismar”
  • Cebuano: “Wismar (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Wismar”
  • Chechen: “Висмар”
  • Chinese: “維斯馬”
  • Chinese: “维斯马”
  • Corsican: “Wismar”
  • Croatian: “Wismar”
  • Czech: “Wismar”
  • Danish: “Wismar”
  • Dutch: “Wismar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيسمار”
  • Esperanto: “Wismar”
  • Estonian: “Wismar”
  • Finnish: “Wismar”
  • French: “Wismar”
  • Friulian: “Wismar”
  • Galician: “Wismar”
  • Georgian: “ვისმარი”
  • German: “Hansestadt Wismar”
  • German: “Wismar”
  • Greek: “Βίσμαρ”
  • Hebrew: “ויסמר”
  • Hindi: “विस्मर”
  • Hungarian: “Wismar”
  • Icelandic: “Wismar”
  • Ido: “Wismar”
  • Indonesian: “Wismar”
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  • Irish: “Wismar”
  • Italian: “Wismar”
  • Japanese: “ヴィスマール”
  • Kazakh: “Висмар”
  • Kirghiz: “Висмар”
  • Kongo: “Wismar”
  • Korean: “비스마르”
  • Kurdish: “Wismar”
  • Ladin: “Wismar”
  • Latin: “Vismaria”
  • Latvian: “Vismāra”
  • Ligurian: “Wismar”
  • Limburgan: “Wismar”
  • Lithuanian: “Vismaras”
  • Low German: “Wismar”
  • Low German: “Wismer”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wismar”
  • Macedonian: “Висмар”
  • Malagasy: “Wismar”
  • Malay: “Wismar”
  • Maltese: “Wismar”
  • Minangkabau: “Wismar”
  • Narom: “Wismar”
  • Neapolitan: “Wismar”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wismar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wismar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wismar”
  • Norwegian: “Wismar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wismar”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਸਮਰ”
  • Persian: “ویسمار”
  • Picard: “Wismar”
  • Piemontese: “Wismar”
  • Polish: “Wismar”
  • Polish: “Wyszomierz”
  • Portuguese: “Wismar”
  • Romanian: “Wismar”
  • Romansh: “Wismar”
  • Russian: “Висмар”
  • Sardinian: “Wismar”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wismar”
  • Scots: “Wismar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wismar”
  • Serbian: “Wismar”
  • Serbian: “Визмар”
  • Serbian: “Висмар”
  • Serbian: “Ханзештат Висмар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wismar”
  • Sicilian: “Wismar”
  • Silesian: “Wismar”
  • Slovak: “Wismar”
  • Slovenian: “Wismar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویسمار”
  • Spanish: “Wismar”
  • Swahili: “Wismar”
  • Swedish: “Wismar”
  • Swiss German: “Wismar”
  • Tatar: “Висмар”
  • Thai: “วิสมาร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Wismar”
  • Tumbuka: “Wismar”
  • Turkish: “Hansestadt Wismar”
  • Turkish: “Wismar”
  • Ukrainian: “Вісмар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wismar”
  • Uzbek: “Wismar”
  • Venetian: “Wismar”
  • Vietnamese: “Wismar”
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  • Walloon: “Wismar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wismar”
  • Welsh: “Wismar”
  • Western Frisian: “Wysmar”
  • Wolof: “Wismar”
  • Wu Chinese: “维斯马”
  • Yue Chinese: “維斯馬”
  • Zulu: “Wismar”

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