![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. One of Germany's 16 federated states, Hamburg borders Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The city is situated on the River Elbe and two of its tributaries, the River Alster and the River Bille. ![]() Hamburg's urban area has a population of around 2.5 million and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, which has a population of over 5.1 million people in total. Hamburg ( German: ( listen), locally also ( listen) Low Saxon: Hamborg ( listen)), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Low Saxon: Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg), is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin, as well as the overall 7th largest city and largest non- capital city in the European Union with a population of over 1.85 million. ![]()
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