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Hannover, Germany

Hanover
German: Hannover
New Town Hall, Hanover
Coat of arms of Hanover
Coat of arms
Hanover  is located in Germany
Hanover
Hanover
Coordinates: 52°22′N 9°43′E / 52.367°N 9.717°E / 52.367; 9.717Coordinates: 52°22′N 9°43′E / 52.367°N 9.717°E / 52.367; 9.717
Country Germany
State Lower Saxony
District Hanover
Government
 • Lord Mayor Stefan Schostok (SPD)
 • Governing parties SPD / Greens
Area
 • City 204.01 km2 (78.77 sq mi)
Elevation 55 m (180 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • City 532,163
 • Density 2,600/km2 (6,800/sq mi)
 • Metro 1,119,032
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 30001 - 30669
Dialling codes 0511
Vehicle registration H
Website www.hannover.de
Largest groups of foreign residents
Nationality Population (2015)
 Turkey 16,621
 Poland 7,772
 Greece 4,333
 Ukraine 3,461
 Russia 3,115
 Italy 2,880
 Serbia 2,810
 Bulgaria 2,711
 Spain 2,708
 Iraq 2,211
 Romania 1,825
 Iran 1,669
 Croatia 1,637
 China 1,632
 Syria 1,502

Hanover or Hannover (/ˈhænvər/; German: Hannover, pronounced [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the River Leine, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Electorate was enlarged to become a Kingdom with Hanover as its capital.

From 1868 to 1946 Hanover was the capital of the Prussian Province of Hanover and afterwards of the Hanover administrative region until that was abolished in 2005. It is now the capital of the Land of Lower Saxony. Since 2001 it has been part of the Hanover district (Region Hannover), which is a municipal body made up from the former district (Landkreis Hannover) and city of Hanover (note: although both Region and Landkreis are translated as district they are not the same).


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