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General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
Germany ( German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and is seventh-largest country by area in the continent. The area of Germany ranked 63rd and covers ...
Ancient Rome developed from 200 B.C. and spread from Italy to northern Italy, northern Africa (Tunisia) and central Europe in the following period. The heyday of the ancient Romans can be seen in the 1st to 3rd century A.D., many ancient ruins date from this period. Roman cities in Germany were mainly built along the Rhine and Danube: Augsburg ...
Three sites are listed in Germany: the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park (pictured), Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, and Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park. [41] Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe *. Brandenburg, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hesse.
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), [f] is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its 16 constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of 357,569 km 2 (138,058 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the ...
Northern Germany. Northern Germany (German: Norddeutschland, pronounced [ˈnɔʁtdɔɪ̯tʃlant] ⓘ) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hamburg and Bremen.
The free imperial cities in the 18th century. In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
Hamburg ( German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [7] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [8] [9] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 8th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. [10] [1] The Hamburg Metropolitan Region ...