Hamburg | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:32 1 Geography
00:04:56 1.1 Climate
00:06:08 2 History
00:06:17 2.1 Origins
00:07:03 2.2 Medieval Hamburg
00:09:53 2.3 Modern times
00:14:03 2.4 Second World War
00:17:01 2.5 Post-war history
00:18:31 3 Demographics
00:21:13 3.1 Residents in Hamburg with foreign citizenship
00:21:32 3.2 Language
00:23:06 3.3 Religion
00:24:41 4 Government
00:26:22 4.1 Boroughs
00:31:09 5 Cityscape
00:31:18 5.1 Architecture
00:34:09 5.2 Parks and gardens
00:35:17 6 Culture and contemporary life
00:36:22 6.1 Theatres
00:36:58 6.2 Museums
00:38:45 6.3 Music
00:41:54 6.4 Festivals and regular events
00:44:02 6.5 Cuisine
00:47:50 6.6 Main sights
00:47:59 6.7 Alternative culture
00:50:19 6.8 British culture
00:52:35 6.9 Memorials
00:53:24 7 Economy
00:54:10 7.1 Banking
00:54:35 7.2 Port
00:55:25 7.3 Industrial production
00:56:11 7.4 HafenCity
00:58:29 7.5 Tourism
01:01:58 7.6 Media
01:03:48 8 Infrastructure
01:03:58 8.1 Health systems
01:04:43 8.2 Transport
01:06:17 8.3 Public transport
01:10:34 8.3.1 Public transportation statistics
01:11:27 8.4 Utilities
01:12:33 9 Sport
01:18:57 10 Education
01:20:42 11 Twin towns and sister cities
01:21:06 12 People from Hamburg
01:22:05 13 See also
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SUMMARY
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Hamburg (English: ; German: [ˈhambʊɐ̯k] (listen); officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg; German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; Low German/Low Saxon: Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany with a population of over 1.8 million.
One of Germany's 16 federal states, it is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The city's metropolitan region is home to more than five million people. Hamburg lies on the River Elbe and two of its tributaries, the River Alster and the River Bille.
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. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign city state, and before 1919 formed a civic republic headed constitutionally by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. Beset by disasters such as the Great Fire of Hamburg, north Sea flood of 1962 and military conflicts including World War II bombing raids, the city has managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe.
Hamburg is Europe's third-largest port. Major regional broadcasting firm NDR, the printing and publishing firm Gruner + Jahr and the newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit are based in the city. Hamburg is the seat of Germany's oldest stock exchange and the world's oldest merchant bank, Berenberg Bank. Media, commercial, logistical, and industrial firms with significant locations in the city include multinationals Airbus, Blohm + Voss, Aurubis, Beiersdorf, and Unilever.
The city hosts specialists in world economics and international law, including consular and diplomatic missions as the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the EU-LAC Foundation, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, multipartite international political conferences and summits such as Europe and China and the G20. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Angela Merkel, German chancellor since 2005, come from Hamburg.
The city is a major international and domestic tourist destination. It ranked 18th in the world for livability in 2016. The Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2015.Hamburg is a major European science, research, and education hub, with several universities and institutions. Among its most notable cultural venues are the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle concert halls. It gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule and paved the way for bands including The Beatles. Hamburg is al ...