Hamburg Metropolitan Region

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.

Geography

As of 2005, the Hamburg Metropolitan Region was made up of the city of Hamburg along with numerous rural districts in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, altogether comprising 800 cities, towns and municipalities with an overall land area of 19802 km2. Since then it has expanded to cover the districts of Ludwigslust-Parchim (partially from 2012, entirely from 2017) and Nordwestmecklenburg (from 2012) in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Largest cities and towns

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• Districts and independent () cities.

† Ludwigslust was merged into Ludwigslust-Parchim in 2011; pop. data for 2010

Larger Urban Zones

The Hamburg Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) as defined by Eurostat's Urban Audit covers an area of 7,303 km2 and in 2004 had a population of 3,134,620 inhabitants. The Larger Urban Zone covers only the city of Hamburg and its directly neighbouring districts. The Hamburg LUZ corresponds with the service area of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) transport association with an average population density of at least 150 inhabitants/km2.

• Districts and independent () cities.

† not part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

HH Rathaus pano1.jpg|Hamburg City Hall (Rathaus), seat of the Hamburg Senate AlsterPanorama.jpg|Hamburg's Binnenalster lake Travemünde Bucht Panorama.jpg|Travemünde, seaside resort in Lübeck Cuxhaven panorama 02.jpg|Cuxhaven Wismar Marktplatz.jpg|Historic market place (Marktplatz) in Wismar

References

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