General Facts

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is the cultural and commercial center of Northern Germany and - with its 1.7 million inhabitants - the second largest city in Germany. It is a city as well as a state. The metropolitan region consists of 3.5 million people.
With its large harbour, the city has always been an open-minded commercial center. The liberal mentality of its habitants has been determined by the many influences from overseas.
Today, the harbour is the second-largest in Europe, and the seventh world-wide; you can see here some of the biggest container ships the world has to offer.

Official Language: German

Population: about 1.7 million

Currency: the EURO