Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Metropolregion Hamburg

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location of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region in Germany

Country

Germany

States

Hamburg
Lower Saxony
Schleswig-Holstein
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Largest Cities

Hamburg

Area

• Metro

26,000 km² (10,000 sq mi)

Population ^[1]

• Metro

5,100,000

• Metro density

192/km² (500/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

Website

http://www.metropolregion.hamburg.de/

The Metropolregion Hamburg (German for Hamburg Metropolitan Region) is the compilation of eight districts in the German federal state of Lower Saxony, six districts in Schleswig-Holstein, two districts in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the city-state of Hamburg in northern Germany. It covers an area of ca 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), and is home to more than 5.1 million inhabitants.

History

On 1 January 2006, the office of the Hamburg metropolitan region opened, as agreed in a state treaty of cooperation (Staatsvertrag über Zusammenarbeit) between Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.^[2]

Geography

In 2005, the Hamburg metropolitan region consisted of the city-state Hamburg, rural districts of Lower Saxony, and districts of Schleswig-Holstein, with more than 800 cities, towns or municipalities. The region covered an area of 19,802 square kilometres (7,646 sq mi).^[3] It was later extended with an area of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district and the Nordwestmecklenburg district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

States and districts

State	District^*	Population (2012)	Area	Pop. density (2012)
Hamburg	–	1,813,587	755 km²	2,400/km²
Lower Saxony	Cuxhaven	198,115	2,073 km²	96/km²
	Harburg	239,269	1,245 km²	190/km²
	Lüchow-Dannenberg	49,082	1,220 km²	40/km²
	Lüneburg	174,685	1,323 km²	130/km²
	Rotenburg	162,182	2,070 km²	78/km²
	Soltau-Fallingbostel	136,072	1,873 km²	73/km²
	Stade	195,606	1,266 km²	150/km²
	Uelzen	93,284	1,454 km²	64/km²
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Ludwigslust^†	122,564	2,517 km²	49/km²
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Nordwestmecklenburg	155,801	2,117 km²	74/km²
Schleswig-Holstein	Dithmarschen	132,965	1,405 km²	95/km²
	Lauenburg	187,905	1,263 km²	150/km²
	Lübeck	211,713	214 km²	990/km²
	Neumünster	76,951	72 km²	1,100/km²
	Ostholstein	197,882	1,391 km²	140/km²
	Pinneberg	298,826	664 km²	450/km²
	Segeberg	261,988	1,334 km²	200/km²
	Steinburg	130,135	1,056 km²	120/km²
	Stormarn	232,911	766 km²	300/km²
Hamburg Metropolitan Region^[4]^[5]		4,990,307	2,610,311 km²	191/km²

Largest cities and towns

City^* or town	Population (2012)	Area	Pop. density (2012)
Hamburg	1,813,587	755 km²	2,400/km²
Lübeck	211,713	214 km²	990/km²
Neumünster	76,951	72 km²	1,100/km²
Norderstedt	74,574	58 km²	1,300/km²
Lüneburg	70,438	70 km²	1,000/km²
Cuxhaven	48,829	162 km²	300/km²
Elmshorn	47,490	21 km²	2,200/km²
Stade	45,198	110 km²	410/km²
Wismar	42,433	41 km²	1,000/km²
Pinneberg	41,726	22 km²	1,900/km²
Seevetal	39,921	105 km²	380/km²
Buxtehude	39,858	76 km²	520/km²
Buchholz i. d. N.	36,875	75 km²	490/km²
Uelzen	33,467	136 km²	250/km²
Winsen	32,638	110 km²	300/km²
Wedel	31,725	34 km²	940/km²
Ahrensburg	31,292	35 km²	890/km²
Itzehoe	30,956	28 km²	1,100/km²
Geesthacht	29,098	33 km²	880/km²
Reinbek	26,347	31 km²	840/km²

* Districts and District free cities (German: Kreisfreie Städte).
^† Ludwigslust was merged into Ludwigslust-Parchim in 2011; pop. data for 2010

District free city

Larger Urban Zones

4. Hamburg metropolitan region

Regions of Europe with the largest GDP per capita, Hamburg #4

The Hamburg Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) as defined by Eurostat's Urban Audit covers an area of 7,303 km² and in 2004 contained 3,134,620 inhabitants^[6] (pop. density 429/km²). The Larger Urban Zone covers the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and only the directly bordering districts:^[7] The Hamburg LUZ corresponds with the service area of Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV). only in these areas, the population density is 150 inhabitants/km² or higher.

State	District^*	Population (2012)	Area	Pop. density (2012)
Hamburg	–	1,813,587	755 km²	2,400/km²
Lower Saxony	Harburg	239,269	1,245 km²	190/km²
	Stade	195,606	1,266 km²	150/km²
Schleswig-Holstein	Lauenburg	187,905	1,263 km²	150/km²
	Pinneberg	298,826	664 km²	450/km²
	Segeberg	261,988	1,334 km²	200/km²
	Stormarn	232,911	766 km²	300/km²
Hamburg LUZ^[8]^[9]		2,903,198

Schleswig-Holstein	Lübeck	211,713	214.13 km²	990/km²
	Ostholstein	197,882	1,391 km²	140/km²
Lübeck LUZ^[8]^[9]		391,373

Bremen	Bremerhaven^†	112,895	78,87 km²	1,400/km²
Lower Saxony	Cuxhaven	198,115	2,073 km²	96/km²
Bremerhaven LUZ^[8]^[9]		288,635

* Districts and District free cities (German: Kreisfreie Städte).
^† not part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Hamburg City Hall (Rathaus), seat of the Hamburg Senate
Hamburg's Binnenalster
Lübeck's seaside resort Travemünde
Cuxhaven
Wismar, World Heritage old town

References

↑ "Hamburg" (in German). Retrieved 12 June 2009.
↑ Impressum - metroploregion Hamburg (in German), retrieved 25 March 2009
↑ Hamburg Metropolitan Area fact sheet (PDF), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), 2006, retrieved 25 March 2009
↑ Bevölkerungsstand und Bevölkerungsdichte am 31.12.2012, Metropolregion Hamburg, 2013
↑ Flächennutzung: Siedlungs- und Verkehrsfläche nach Art der tatsächlichen Nutzung am 31.12.2012, Metropolregion Hamburg, 2013
↑ "Hamburg". Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
↑ http://www.staedtestatistik.de/508.html Retrieved 15 June 2009.
1 2 3 Population by larger urban zone, eurostat, 2014
1 2 3 Map of metro regions, eurostat, 2012

External links

Metropolregion Hamburg - official webpage

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

Government and Symbols	Parliament Constitution Subdivisions Elections Flag Coat of arms Police

History and Culture	Timeline Hamburg culture Hanseatic League Hanseaten Demographics Dialect Education Sport Museums Theatres Cuisine

Economy and Transport	Hamburg Metropolitan Region Chamber of Commerce Airport Port Bridges Hamburg S-Bahn stations Hamburg U-Bahn stations

Lists Mayors Honorary citizens Diplomatic missions Rivers Parks and gardens Churches Libraries Museums Theatres Castles Railway stations

Metropolitan regions in Germany

Berlin/Brandenburg Bremen/Oldenburg Hamburg Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Munich Nuremberg Rhine-Main Rhine-Neckar Rhine-Ruhr Central German Stuttgart

states urban districts cities and towns (by population) municipalities

Cities in Germany by population

1,000,000+	Berlin Cologne Hamburg Munich

500,000+	Bremen Dortmund Dresden Düsseldorf Essen Frankfurt Hanover Leipzig Nuremberg Stuttgart

200,000+	Aachen Augsburg Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Braunschweig Chemnitz Duisburg Erfurt Freiburg im Breisgau Gelsenkirchen Halle (Saale) Karlsruhe Kiel Krefeld Lübeck Magdeburg Mainz Mannheim Münster Mönchengladbach Oberhausen Rostock Wiesbaden Wuppertal

100,000+	Bergisch Gladbach Bottrop Bremerhaven Cottbus Darmstadt Erlangen Fürth Göttingen Hagen Hamm Heidelberg Heilbronn Herne Hildesheim Ingolstadt Jena Kassel Koblenz Leverkusen Ludwigshafen Moers Mülheim an der Ruhr Neuss Offenbach am Main Oldenburg Osnabrück Paderborn Pforzheim Potsdam Recklinghausen Regensburg Remscheid Reutlingen Saarbrücken Salzgitter Siegen Solingen Trier Ulm Wolfsburg Würzburg

complete list municipalities metropolitan regions cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants

Coordinates: 53°30′N 10°00′E / 53.5°N 10.0°E / 53.5; 10.0

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