Hamborg is the second-largest city in Germany (second to Berlin) and the seventh-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to over 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighboring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. The port of Hamburg is the third-largest port in Europe (third to Port of Antwerp and Rotterdam), and the eighth largest in the world.Hamburg's official name is the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .[ It makes reference to Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and also to the fact that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.Hamburg is a major transportation hub in Northern Germany and is one of the most affluent cities in Europe. It has become a media and industrial center, with factories such as Airbus, Blohm + Voss and Aurubis. The radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and publishers such as Gruner + and Spiegel-Verlag represent the important media industry in Hamburg. In total there are more than 120,000 enterprises. The city is a major tourist destination both for domestic and overseas visitors, receiving about 7.7 million overnight stays in 2008.:Hamborg是德国的的第二大城市,仅次于德国柏林,也是欧盟的第7大城市,有180万人居住在德国,而汉堡(包括部分大城市地区相邻的联邦州和Schleswig-Holstein下萨克森州政府已超过430万居民。这个港口的汉堡是世界第三大港口,(仅次于安特卫普、鹿特丹),在世界上居第八位。 汉堡的官方名称是 Free and Hanseatic City (自由和汉萨同盟)。[4]它的名字来源是由于汉堡是中世纪的汉萨联盟中的一员,也是神圣罗马帝国的自由至上的城市,而且汉堡是德国16个城邦中的一个。 汉堡在德国北部是一个主要的交通枢纽,在欧洲最富裕。它已成为媒体和工业中心,与工厂,如空中客车,使用多种工艺比如Aurubis Voss +。广播电台和电视台的公司Norddeutscher Rundfunk,还有出版商,如Gruner和Spiegel-Verlag +代表了重要的汉堡传媒行业。总共有超过120,000企业。这个城市是一个主要的旅游目的地的国内和国外游客,在2008年有770万人在汉堡住宿