Urban districts of Schleswig-Holstein

Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Bay of Kiel and lies in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula, on the mouth of the Schwentine River, approximately northeast of Hamburg. The world's busiest artificial waterway, the Kiel Canal, has a terminus in Kiel's Holtenau district. This canal connects the Baltic to the North Sea, with its other end in Brunsbüttel. Most of Kiel is part of Holstein. The boroug

Lübeck (; or ; Latin: ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 220,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and the second-largest city in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, after its capital of Kiel. It is the 36th-largest city in Germany.

Flensburg (; Danish and ; ; ) is a town in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. After Kiel and Lübeck, it is the third-largest urban area in Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg's city centre lies about from the Danish border.

thumb|right|250px|Vicelinkirche (Vicelin Church) thumb|A view of the Neumünster pond in the city center, with the movie theater building ahead and the "Holsten-Gallery" mall on the left thumb|The central bus station at the central train station thumb|The "Konrad Adenauer Plaza" outside the central train station thumb|Outside of the entrance to the Neumünster central train station thumb|Neumünster's public outdoor swimming pool in the "Bad am Stadtwald", near the City's forest thumb|Bust of German politician Hans Böckler in the "Hans Böckler Settlement", a neighborhood of Neumünster