Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany (second to Berlin) and the seventh-largest city in the European Union.
The city is home to over 1.8 million people,while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighboring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants.The port of Hamburg is the third-largest port in Europe (third to Port of Antwerp and Rotterdam),and the eighth largest in the world.
Hamburg's official name is the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German:Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg).It makes reference to Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League,as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire,and also to the fact that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.
Hamburg is a major transportation hub in Northern Germany and is one of the most affluent cities in Europe.It has become a media and industrial center,with factories such as Airbus,Blohm + Voss and Aurubis.The radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and publishers such as Gruner + Jahr and Spiegel-Verlag represent the important media industry in Hamburg.In total there are more than 120,000 enterprises.The city is a major tourist destination both for domestic and overseas visitors,receiving about 7.7 million overnight stays in 2008.
汉堡是第二大的德国（仅次于柏林）和在欧洲联盟第七大城市.
城市的城市居住着180万人民,而汉堡大都市地区（包括邻近的联邦地区下萨克森州和石荷州国家）已超过430万居民.在汉堡港是欧洲（前两位是安特卫普和鹿特丹港）的第三大港口,并在世界第八位.
汉堡的正式名称是自由汉萨汉堡（德国城市：柏林佛里尔北达科汉堡）.它使作为中世纪汉萨同盟成员参考汉堡的历史,作为一个自由的帝国城市的神圣罗马帝国,也由于汉堡是一个城市国家和德国的16个国家之一.
汉堡是德国北部重要交通枢纽,是欧洲最富裕的城市之一.它已成为媒体和工业中心,如空中客车公司的工厂,布姆+沃斯和Aurubis.在北德意志广播电台和电视台广播公司和诸如古纳亚尔和Spiegel,出版社出版商代表在汉堡的行业的重要媒体.总共有超过12万的企业.这个城市是一个既为国内和海外游客的主要旅游目的地,在2008年获得约770万游客的过夜住宿.
