Hamburg

:This article is about the city in Germany. For other articles named Hamburg, see Hamburg (disambiguation).

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Hamburg is Germany's second largest city (after Berlin) and, with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. The official name Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg) recalls its membership in the medi?val Hanseatic League and the fact that Hamburg is a city state and one of Germany's sixteen Bundesl?nder.

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The state and administrative city cover 750 km?; with 1.8 million inhabitants, while another 750,000 live in neighbouring urban areas. The Greater Hamburg Metropolitan Region (Metropolregion Hamburg) including nearby districts of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony covers 18,100 km? with a population of 4 million.

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The city of Hamburg is situated at three rivers, the Alster, the Bille and the Elbe, at . The city centre is beautifully situated around two artificial lakes, the Au?enalster and the Binnenalster, which are formed by the river Alster.

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100 km to the North-West, three islands in the North Sea also belong to the city-state of Hamburg: Neuwerk, Scharh?rn and Nigeh?rn.

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The burg part of the city's name is cognate to the English word borough as well as words and place names in virtually every Indo-European and Semitic language along with others. For a fuller explanation, see under borough.

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