[Did you know that?] Hamburg is a city in northern Germany on the banks of the Elbe river

[TheDude @ LCS]

Did you know that Hamburg is a city in northern Germany on the banks of the Elbe river?

It is the second-largest city in the country with a population of nearly two million people.

It's also part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, which boasts a population of over five million people.

Hamburg is classed as a German city-state and is the second smallest state in the country (only the city-state of Bremen is smaller).

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