Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of Thuringia, north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 64,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899. Weimar was the capital of the Duchy (after 1815 the [...]
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Rostock is the largest city in the north German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rostock is located on the Warnow river; the quarter of Warnemünde 12 km north of the city centre lies directly on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Rostock is located nearly centrally on Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Baltic Sea coast. The city is crossed by the Warnow. The [...]
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Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg. There are approximately 1.35 million inhabitants within Munich. Munich is noted for its architecture and culture, and its annual Oktoberfest beer celebration is [...]
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Leipzig is the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. with a population of approximately 500,000. It is the industrial centre of the region and a major cultural center, offering interesting sights, shopping possibilities and lively nightlife. First documented in 1015, and endowed with city and market privileges in 1165, the city of Leipzig [...]
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Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany (after Berlin), and, along with its central port, also the second-largest port in Europe (after Rotterdam), ninth-largest port in the world, and the most populous city in the European Union that is not a national capital. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million inhabitants. Hamburg’s proper name is [...]
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Frankfurt is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000. The urban area had an estimated population of 2.26 million in 2001. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine Main Region which has a population of 5.3 million [...]
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Erfurt is a city in central Germany. It is the capital of the state of Thuringia with a population of 202,619 (2006). Erfurt is located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 113 km SW of Kassel and 180 km SE of Hannover. Erfurt Airport can be reached by plane via Munich, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. Since the Reunification [...]
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Dresden is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area. Located on the Elbe River, it is an industrial, governmental, and cultural center, known worldwide for the Bruehl’s Terrace and its [...]
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Cologne is Germany’s fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants. It is one of the oldest cities in Germany, having been founded [...]
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Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country’s largest city. It is the second most populous city and the ninth most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of [...]
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