| Hamburg Metropolitan Region | |
| Native Name: | |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Metropolregion Hamburg Logo.svg |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Logo |
| Blank Emblem Size: | 180px |
| Anthem: | German: {{ill|Stadt Hamburg an der Elbe Auen|de|Hamburg-Hymne|vertical-align=sup |
| Mapsize: | 200px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Germany |
| Subdivision Type1: | States |
| Subdivision Name1: | ---- |
| Established Date: | 1 January 2006 |
| Subdivision Type3: | Largest Cities |
| Subdivision Name3: | Hamburg, Lübeck |
| Population Metro: | 5,100,000 |
| Area Metro Km2: | 26,000 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Density Metro Km2: | 192 |
| Demographics Type2: | GDP |
| Demographics2 Footnotes: | [2] |
| Demographics2 Title1: | Metro |
| Demographics2 Info1: | €249.406 billion (2021) |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Website: | http://www.metropolregion.hamburg.de/ |
The Hamburg Metropolitan Region (German: '''Metropolregion Hamburg'''|i=no) is a metropolitan region centred around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany, consisting of eight districts (German: Landkreise) in the federal state of Lower Saxony, six districts (German: Kreise) in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and two districts in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern along with the city-state of Hamburg itself. It covers an area of roughly 26000km2 and is home to more than 5.1 million inhabitants.
On 1 January 2006 the office of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region opened, as agreed in a state treaty of cooperation (German: Staatsvertrag über Zusammenarbeit) between Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.
As of 2005, the Hamburg Metropolitan Region was made up of the city of Hamburg along with numerous rural districts in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, altogether comprising 800 cities, towns and municipalities with an overall land area of . Since then it has expanded to cover the districts of Ludwigslust-Parchim (partially from 2012, entirely from 2017)[3] and Nordwestmecklenburg (from 2012)[4] in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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| valign=top | Largest cities and towns
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† Ludwigslust was merged into Ludwigslust-Parchim in 2011; pop. data for 2010
The Hamburg Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) as defined by Eurostat's Urban Audit covers an area of 7,303 km2 and in 2004 had a population of 3,134,620 inhabitants.[7] The Larger Urban Zone covers only the city of Hamburg and its directly neighbouring districts.[8] The Hamburg LUZ corresponds with the service area of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) transport association with an average population density of at least 150 inhabitants/km2.
| District | Population (2012) | Area | Pop. density (2012) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 1,813,587 | 755 km2 | 2,400/km2 | ||
| Harburg | 239,269 | 1,245 km2 | 190/km2 | ||
| Stade | 195,606 | 1,266 km2 | 150/km2 | ||
| Lauenburg | 187,905 | 1,263 km2 | 150/km2 | ||
| Pinneberg | 298,826 | 664 km2 | 450/km2 | ||
| Segeberg | 261,988 | 1,334 km2 | 200/km2 | ||
| Stormarn | 232,911 | 766 km2 | 300/km2 | ||
| Hamburg LUZ[9] [10] | 2,903,198 | ||||
| Lübeck | 211,713 | 214.13 km2 | 990/km2 | ||
| Ostholstein | 197,882 | 1,391 km2 | 140/km2 | ||
| Lübeck LUZ | 391,373 | ||||
| Bremerhaven† | 112,895 | 78,87 km2 | 1,400/km2 | ||
| 198,115 | 2,073 km2 | 96/km2 | |||
| Bremerhaven LUZ | 288,635 | ||||
† not part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region