Port of Hamburg Port of Hamburg The Port of Hamburg (German: "Hamburger Hafen") is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. It's Germany's largest port and is named the country's "Gateway to the World" (Tor zur Welt). In terms of TEU throughput, Hamburg is the third-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam and Antwerp) and 15th-largest worldwide. In 2014, 9.73 million TEUs (20-foot standard container equivalents) were handled in Hamburg. The harbour covers an area of 73.99 km² (64.80 km² usable), of which 43.31 km² (34.12 km²) are land areas. The location
Demographics of Hamburg Demographics of Hamburg The German city of Hamburg is the most populous city in the European Union which is not a national capital. The city contains an approximate 1.8 million people. The figures since 1970 are published by the Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein, based on the information of several state authorities. Hamburg was by far the most populated German City after the Thirty Years' War. Due to its , which had been finished 1625, the city was never conquered and many people fled into it. On December 31, 2006 there were 1,754,182 registered people living in Hamburg