Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a 110 km (68 mi) estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany’s three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany’s largest and Europe’s third largest, after Rotterdam and Antwerp. The last large annexation was done through the Greater Hamburg Act of 1st of April 1937, when the cities Altona, Harburg, and Wandsbek were merged into the state of Hamburg. We celebrate this great city with a 1:87 VW T1 with a City of Hamburg livree …

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