Clip: The history the Hamburg begins with its foundation in the 9th century as a mission settlement to convert the Saxons. End Clip (i) Hamburg is the Clip: Second Largest City in Germany End Clip (i) Clip: More than 1.8 million people live in Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city. End Clip (ii) Clip: Major Transportation Hub in Northern Germany End Clip (iii) Clip: Hamburg is located on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, directly between Continental Europe to its south, Scandinavia to its north, the North Sea to its west, and the Baltic Sea to its east. Hamburg is 755 km2 (291.5 sq mi) The most significant economic unit for Hamburg is the Port of Hamburg, which ranks 3rd only to Rotterdam and Antwerp in Europe and 9th worldwide with transshipments of 9.8 million Twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of cargo and 134 million tons of goods in 2007. Hamburg was in the British Zone of Occupation and became a state of the then Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. End Clip (i)
Bremen
Bremen was founded by George Berry in the year of 1834. Following behind Hamburg, Bremen has the second largest port in Germany. “Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany” with a total population of 548 thousand people. (iv) Clip: In 1949 the city-state joined the then West German Federal Republic of Germany End Clip (v) One thing I found really interesting after looking at the map of Germany, is Bremen is a state inside another state.
Nordrhein-Westfalen
With more than 18 million people Nordrhein-Westfalen makes up the largest federal state population in Germany. Nordrhen- Westfalen takes up 34,084.13 km2 (13,160 sq mi) of Germany. The State was established by the British military administrations on 23 August 1946 Clip: The state is currently run by a Red-green alliance with the Social Democrats as the senior coalition partner and The Greens as the junior coalition partner. End Clip (vi) Something I found interesting was the flag of Nordrhein- Westfalen Clip:The flag of North Rhine-Westphalia is green-white-red with the combined coats of arms of the Rhineland (white line before green background, symbolizing the river Rhine), Westfalen (the white horse) and Lippe (the red rose).End Clip (vi)
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| picture courtesy of http://www.maps-of-germany.co.uk/ |
i http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg 09/05/11
ii http://www.gahf.ghorfa.de/about_us.html 09/09/11
iii http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-union/germany/hamburg/ 09/05/11
iv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen 09/09/11
v http://www.answers.com/topic/bremen-geogeur-in-encyclopedia-1 09/09/11
vi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia
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