Hamburg_Metropolitan_Region

Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Place in Germany

The Hamburg Metropolitan Region (German: Metropolregion Hamburg) is a metropolitan area centred around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany, consisting of eight districts (Landkreise) in the federal state of Lower Saxony, six districts (Kreise) in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and two districts in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern along with the city-state of Hamburg itself. It covers an area of roughly 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi) and is home to more than 5.1 million inhabitants.

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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.[3]

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 19,802 square kilometres (7,646 sq mi).[4] Since then it has expanded to cover the districts of Ludwigslust-Parchim (partially from 2012, entirely from 2017)[5] and Nordwestmecklenburg (from 2012)[6] in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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* Districts and independent (German: kreisfrei) cities.
† Ludwigslust was merged into Ludwigslust-Parchim in 2011; pop. data for 2010

  District free city

Larger Urban Zones

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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.[9] The Larger Urban Zone covers only the city of Hamburg and its directly neighbouring districts.[10] 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.

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* Districts and independent (German: kreisfrei) cities.
† not part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Hamburg" (in German). Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  2. [2]
    "Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) in den Metropolregionen* in Deutschland im Jahr 2020" (in German).
  3. [3]
    Impressum - metropolregion Hamburg (in German), retrieved 25 March 2009
  4. [4]
    Hamburg Metropolitan Area fact sheet (PDF), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), 2006, archived from the original (PDF) on 18 January 2009, retrieved 25 March 2009
  5. [5]
    "Metropolregion Hamburg / Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim".
  6. [6]
    "Metropolregion Hamburg Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg".
  7. [7]
    Bevölkerungsstand und Bevölkerungsdichte am 31.12.2012, Metropolregion Hamburg, 2013
  8. [8]
    Flächennutzung: Siedlungs- und Verkehrsfläche nach Art der tatsächlichen Nutzung am 31.12.2012, Metropolregion Hamburg, 2013
  9. [9]
    "Hamburg". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
  10. [10]
    http://www.staedtestatistik.de/508.doc Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 15 June 2009.
  11. [11]
    Population by larger urban zone, eurostat, 2014
  12. [12]
    Map of metro regions[permanent dead link], eurostat, 2012

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