Bremen
Sign in to saveBremen (), officially the City Municipality of Bremen, is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen () a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. It is an important port city with about 586,000 inhabitants, the Hanseatic city is the 11th-largest city of Germany and the second-largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg.
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Bremen is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and serves as an important port city with about 586,000 inhabitants, making it the 11th-largest city in Germany. It is historically significant as a Hanseatic city and represents the second-largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg.
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Key facts
- German place.name
- Bremen
- German place.type
- City
- German place.image_flag
- Flag of Bremen.svg
- German place.image_coa
- Bremen Wappen(Mittel).svg
- German place.state
- Bremen
- German place.district
- urban
- German place.elevation
- 12
- German place.area
- 326.73
- German place.area_metro
- 11627
- German place.pop_metro
- 2,800,000
- German place.demonym
- Bremer (m), Bremerin (f)
- German place.postal_code
- 28001–28779
- German place.area_code
Article
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Hills of Bremen
- Climate
- Population
- Politics
- Last state election, 2023
- Administrative structure
- Main sights
- Structures
- Economy
- Transport
- Events
- Sports
- Education
- Miscellaneous
- People
- Twin towns – sister cities
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
Bremen (), officially the City Municipality of Bremen, is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen () a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. It is an important port city with about 586,000 inhabitants, the Hanseatic city is the 11th-largest city of Germany and the second-largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg.
Bremen is the largest city on the River Weser, the longest river flowing entirely in Germany, lying some upstream from its mouth into the North Sea at Bremerhaven, and is completely surrounded by the state of Lower Saxony. Bremen is the centre of the Northwest Metropolitan Region, which also includes the cities of Oldenburg and Bremerhaven, and has a population of around 2.8 million people. Bremen is contiguous with the Lower Saxon towns of Delmenhorst, Stuhr, Achim, Weyhe, Schwanewede and Lilienthal. There is an exclave of Bremen in Bremerhaven, the "City of Bremen Overseas Port Area Bremerhaven" (). Bremen is the third-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg and Dortmund.