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Flensburg
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
Flensburg is an independent town in the North of the German state Schleswig-Holstein. It is the centre of the region Sudschleswig. After Lubeck and Kiel it is the third largest town in the state. This is Germany's second most northerly town after Westerland on the island of Sylt and it lies about 7 kilometers from the Danish border. The city’s population was 85,971 as per 2005. The total area is 56.38 square kilometers and population density is 1,525 per square kilometer. It is elevated at 54 meters above the sea level.
The city is recognized for the nationwide database of traffic violators. The University of Flensburg with about 4,000 students was founded in 1946 as a Pedagogical College, and then raised to university in 1994. Local transport of the town is provided by a number of buslines such as Aktiv Bus GmbH and Allgemeinen Flensburger Autobus Gesellschaft, AFAG along with others.
A city known for its historic myths and traditions, scenic beauty, luxurious hotels and cottages, Flensburg is one of the favorite holiday destinations for most of the vacation lovers.
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