Hamburg

Borders virtually no longer have any function in the dynamically growing business centres of Europe. Those who wish to assert themselves on an international scale in the age of globalisation, have to think and act bigger. The concept of the eleven metropolitan regions in Germany is guided by these changing demands.The Hamburg Metropolitan Region is the centre of Germany’s North. It includes the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, six administrative districts in Schleswig-Holstein and eight administrative districts in Lower Saxony. The region stretches from Cuxhaven on the Elbe estuary in the north-west and the Lüneburg Heath in the south, to the administrative district of Lüchow-Dannenberg in the south-east and Dithmarschen in the north.