The official name reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
One of Germany's 16 federated states, Hamburg is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south.
The city lies on the River Elbe and two of its tributaries, the River Alster and the River Bille. Hamburg's urban area has a population of around 2.5 million and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, which has a population of over 5.1 million people in total. Hamburg ( German: ( listen), locally also ( listen) Low Saxon: Hamborg ( listen)), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Low Saxon: Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg), is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin, as well as the overall 7th largest city and largest non- capital city in the European Union with a population of over 1.85 million.
Hamburg as seen from the Sentinel-2B satellite
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