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Hamburg
Hamborg (Low German) | |
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City and state | |
| Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg | |
View of the Binnenalster Elbphilharmonie St Catherine's Church Hafencity Speicherstadt Hamburg City Hall Port of Hamburg | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Hamburg  Hamburg | |
| Coordinates: 53°33′N 10°00′E / 53.550°N 10.000°ECoordinates: 53°33′N 10°00′E / 53.550°N 10.000°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| Government | |
| • Body | Bürgerschaft of Hamburg |
| • First Mayor | Peter Tschentscher (SPD) |
| • Second Mayor | Katharina Fegebank |
| • Governing parties | SPD / Greens |
| • Bundesrat votes | 3 (of 69) |
| • Bundestag seats | 16 (of 736) |
| Area | |
| • City | 755.22 km2 (291.59 sq mi) |
| Population (2021-12-31)[2] | |
| • City | 1,906,411 |
| • Density | 2,500/km2 (6,500/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,484,800[1] |
| • Metro | 5,425,628 |
| Demonym(s) | German: Hamburger (male), Hamburgerin (female) English: Hamburger(s),[3] [4] Hamburgian(s) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (Central (CET)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (Central (CEST)) |
| Postal code(s) | 20001–21149, 22001–22769 |
| Area code(s) | 040 |
| ISO 3166 code | DE-HH |
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| GRP (nominal) | €123 billion (2019)[5] |
| GRP per capita | €67,000[6] (2019) |
| NUTS Region | DE6 |
| HDI (2021) | 0.972[7] very high · 1st of 16 |
| Website | hamburg.com |
Hamburg (German: [ˈhambʊʁk] (
listen), locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] (listen); Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] (listen)), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; Low Saxon: Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),[8] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin, as well as the overall 7th largest city and largest non-capital city in the European Union with a population of over 1.85 million.[9] Hamburg is 941 km2 in area. Hamburg's urban area has a population of around 2.5 million[1] and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, which has a population of over 5.1 million people in total. The city lies on the River Elbe and two of its tributaries, the River Alster and the River Bille. One of Germany's 16 federated states, Hamburg is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south.
The official name reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Before the 1871 unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign city state, and before 1919 formed a civic republic headed constitutionally by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. Beset by disasters such as the Great Fire of Hamburg, North Sea flood of 1962 and military conflicts including World War II bombing raids, the city has managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe.
Hamburg is Europe's third largest port, after Rotterdam and Antwerp. Major regional broadcaster NDR, the printing and publishing firm Gruner + Jahr and the newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit are based in the city. Hamburg is the seat of Germany's oldest stock exchange and the world's oldest merchant bank, Berenberg Bank. Media, commercial, logistical, and industrial firms with significant locations in the city include multinationals Airbus, Blohm + Voss, Aurubis, Beiersdorf, and Unilever. Hamburg is also a major European science, research, and education hub, with several universities and institutions. The city enjoys a very high quality of living, being ranked 19th in the 2019 Mercer Quality of Living Survey.[10]
Hamburg hosts specialists in world economics and international law, including consular and diplomatic missions as the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the EU-LAC Foundation, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, multipartite international political conferences and summits such as Europe and China and the G20. Both former German chancellors Helmut Schmidt and Angela Merkel were born in Hamburg. The former Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, has been the current German chancellor since December 2021.
Hamburg is a major international and domestic tourist destination. The Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2015.[11] Hamburg's rivers and canals are crossed by around 2,500 bridges, making it the city with the highest number of bridges in Europe.[12] Aside from its rich architectural heritage, the city is also home to notable cultural venues such as the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle concert halls. It gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule and paved the way for bands including the Beatles. Hamburg is also known for several theatres and a variety of musical shows. St. Pauli's Reeperbahn is among the best-known European entertainment districts.
- ^ a b citypopulation.de quoting Federal Statistics Office. "Germany: Urban Areas". Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Bevölkerung in Hamburg am 31.12.2021" (PDF) (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein. May 2022.
- ^ "Definition of HAMBURG". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "What are Hamburg people called? – SidmartinBio". www.sidmartinbio.org. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "Bruttoinlandsprodukt – in jeweiligen Preisen – in Deutschland 1991 bis 2019 nach Bundesländern (WZ 2008) – VGR dL". www.vgrdl.de. Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Bruttoinlandsprodukt – in jeweiligen Preisen – in Deutschland 1991 bis 2019 nach Bundesländern (WZ 2008) – VGR dL". www.statistik-bw.de. Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ Verfassung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg [Constitution of Hamburg] (in German) (11th ed.), 6 June 1952, archived from the original on 10 June 2007, retrieved 21 September 2008.
- ^ Jacqueline Brinkwirth; Sophie von Wirth; Gero Berndt (31 May 2019). "Ranking 2019: Die zehn größten Städte Deutschlands" [The Ten Largest German Cities]. Handelsblatt (in German).
- ^ "Quality of Living City Ranking". mercer.com. Mercer. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ Media release on the website of Hamburg Marketing, retrieved on 19 March 2016.
- ^ "Anzahl der Brücken in Städten Europas". Statista (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2020.