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Hamburg (German language: pronounce [ˈhambʊɐk], local pronunciation [ˈhambʊɐç] Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhaˑmbɔːχ], English: [ˈhæmbəˑg]) is the second-largest city in Germany (after Berlin) and along with Hamburg Harbour, its central port, Hamburg is also the second-largest port in Europe (after Rotterdam), ninth-largest port in the world, and the most populous city in the European Union which is not a national capital. The city contains an approximate 1.8 million inhabitants.

Trivia about hamburg

  • The Beatles honed their chops playing clubs in the Reeperbahn, a red-light district in this German port city
  • The 2nd largest city in W. Germany, its state senate is headed by a burgermeister
  • Seen here, Manet's painting of "Nana" hangs in the Kunshalle, a great museum in this seaport of northern Germany
  • Physicist Heinrich Hertz was born in 1857 in this German city for which a beef sandwich is named
  • Almost 2 million people live in this major seaport of northern Germany
  • This seaport is a center of German trade, perhaps in the ground beef that bears its name
  • This port city is West Germany's leading industrial center
  • Crossed by numerous canals, it's said that this German port has more bridges than Amsterdam & Venice combined
  • The Monckebergerstrasse is one of this German port's principal shopping streets
  • This large German city on the Elbe River was the birthplace of Felix Mendelssohn & Johannes Brahms
  • This seaport is Germany's second-largest city
  • Brahms spent much of his creative life in Vienna, but was born in this port, today the second-largest city in Germany
  • We had a wild time on the Reeperbahn in this second-largest German city
  • A lake called the Inner Alster lies in the center of this, Germany's chief port

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