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Hamburg (/ ˈ h æ m b ɜːr ɡ /; [7] German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [8] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [9] [a] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million.
The Hamburg Metropolitan Region (German: Metropolregion Hamburg) is a metropolitan region 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.
As part of the reconstruction, the first large modern sanitation system in Europe was built in Hamburg. [31] Hamburg experienced its fastest growth during the second half of the 19th century, when its population more than quadrupled to 800,000 as the growth of the city's Atlantic trade helped make it Europe's third-largest port.
Detail of a 1790s map of Hamburg. The area of today's Altstadt had a minor Bronze Age settlement dating from the 9th or 8th century BC. An Ingaevonian settlement at this location was known by the name "Treva" – a strategic trading node on amber routes during Iron Age and Late Antiquity.
Flag map of Hamburg: Date: 21 January 2012, 02:03 (UTC) Source: This file was derived from: Hamburg location map simplified districts-Eimsbüttel.svg: Flag of Hamburg.svg: Author: File:Hamburg location map simplified districts-Eimsbüttel.svg; File:Flag of Hamburg.svg: derivative work: Fry1989 eh? 02:08, 21 January 2012 (UTC)