Hamburg Hotels

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. The port of Hamburg is the second-largest port in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world.Hamburg's official name is the Free and Hanseatic City of 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 Federal States of Germany.Hamburg is a major transportation hub in northern Germany and became a media and industrial center with factories such as Blohm and Norddeutsche finerie. 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 7.4 million overnight stays in 2007.