Hamburg

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg  (German) Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg  (Low German)
State of Germany
Descending, from top: View of the Binnenalster, St. Michael's Church, St. Nicholas' Church, Speicherstadt, and Hamburg Rathaus
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 53°33′55″N 10°00′05″E / 53.56528°N 10.00139°E / 53.56528; 10.00139
Country	Germany
Government
• First Mayor	Peter Tschentscher (SPD)
• Governing parties	SPD / The Greens
• Votes in Bundesrat	3 (of 69)
Area
• City	755 km2 (292 sq mi)
Population  (30 September 2016)[1]
• City	1,822,445
• Density	2,400/km2 (6,300/sq mi)
• Metro	5,107,429
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code(s)	20001–21149, 22001–22769
Area code(s)	040
ISO 3166 code	DE-HH
Vehicle registration	HH (1906–1945; again since 1956) MGH (1945) H (1945–1947) HG (1947) BH (1948–1956)
GDP/ Nominal	€ 111/$130 billion (2016) [2]
GDP per capita	€ 62,000/$72,900[3] (2015)
NUTS Region	DE6
Website	hamburg.de

Hamburg, or in full Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Low German: Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg), is a city in the north of Germany on the banks of the River Elbe, 18 km away from the North Sea. It is also one of the States of Germany.

With a population of about 1.85 million (1850000), it is the biggest German city after Berlin and the sixth largest city of the European Union. The religion is about 37% Protestant, 10% Catholic, 8% Muslim, 38% agnostic, 2% Pagan.

Since it was an important member of the Hanseatic League, the city's official name still includes Hansestadt (Hanseatic city). Other German cities that do the same today are: Lübeck, Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund, Bremen, Greifswald and Demmin. The membership in this trade alliance has influenced the architecture of the city to a great extent. It has also left some marks in the region around the city. Strategic bombing in World War II devastated the city.

In 2017 a consulting company ranked it 17th for best place to live in the world.^[4]

The area of Hamburg is 755.16 km² (291.6 sq mi).^[5] It has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Köppen climate classification).

1. ↑ "State population". Portal of the Land Statistics Office Hamburg. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
2. ↑ "Bruttoinlandsprodukt – in jeweiligen Preisen – in Deutschland 1991 bis 2016 nach Bundesländern (WZ 2008) – VGR dL". www.vgrdl.de. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
3. ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/7192292/1-26022016-AP-EN.pdf/602b34e8-abba-439e-b555-4c3cb1dbbe6e
4. ↑ "Vienna tops Mercer's 19th Quality of Living ranking". Retrieved 2018-05-16.
5. ↑ "Internetagentur Hamburg". www.internetagentur-seo-hamburg.de.