Brunswick

city in Lower Saxony, Germany
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Summary

Brunswick is a big city[1]. Brunswick draws 10,479 Wikipedia views per month (big city category, ranking #71 of 300).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Regionalverband Großraum Braunschweig[3], Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schacht KONRAD e.V.[4], Climate Alliance[5], Mayors for Peace[6]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Lower Saxony[7]
  • Country: Germany[8]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Oker[9], Südsee[10]
  • Head of government: Thorsten Kornblum[11]
  • Instance of: major regional center[12], urban municipality in Germany[13], urban district of Lower Saxony[14], Einheitsgemeinde of Lower Saxony[15]
  • Shares border with: Helmstedt District[16], Wolfenbüttel district[17], Salzgitter[18], Peine[19], Gifhorn[20], Schwülper[21], Vechelde[22], Wendeburg[23], Vordorf[24], Meine[25], Papenteich[26], Wolfenbüttel[27], Sickte[28]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Wabe-Schunter-Beberbach[29], Hondelage[30], Volkmarode[31], Östliches Ringgebiet[32], Innenstadt[33], Viewegsgarten-Bebelhof[34], Stöckheim-Leiferde[35], Heidberg-Melverode[36], Südstadt-Rautheim-Mascherode[37], Weststadt[38], Timmerlah-Geitelde-Stiddien[39], Broitzem[40], Rüningen[41], Westliches Ringgebiet[42]
  • Twinned administrative body: Bandung[43], Bath[44], Kiryat Tiv'on[45], Magdeburg[46], Nîmes[47], Sousse[48], Zhuhai[49], Omaha[50], Kazan[51]
  • Coat of arms: Coat of Arms of the City of Braunschweig[52]
  • Postal code: 38100[53], 38126[54], 38114[55], 38100–38126[56]
  • Part of: Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region[57], Braunschweig region[58], Regionalverband Großraum Braunschweig[59]
  • Commons category: Braunschweig[60]
  • Licence plate code: BS[61]
  • Said to be the same as: Braunschweig[62]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Brunswick include F260 Braunschweig[63], a corvette[64]; Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport[65], a commercial airport[66], in Germany[67]; Operation Braunschweig[68], a military operation[69]; Brunswick Government Region[70], a government region of Lower Saxony[71], in Germany[72], founded in 1978[73]; and Braunschweig[74], a district of Germany[75], in Germany[76], founded in 1833[77].

Why It Matters

Brunswick has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[78] Brunswick is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[79]

Entities named for Brunswick include F260 Braunschweig[63], a corvette[64]; Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport[65], a commercial airport[66], in Germany[67]; Operation Braunschweig[68], a military operation[69]; Brunswick Government Region[70], a government region of Lower Saxony[71], in Germany[72], founded in 1978[73]; and Braunschweig[74], a district of Germany[75], in Germany[76], founded in 1833[77].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [78] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [79] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+249485'}, {'amount': '+16192'}, {'amount': '+15570'} +16
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  3. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+249485'}, {'amount': '+16192'}, {'amount': '+15570'} +16
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  6. 21w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +10
    Nomisma id → braunschweig
    Coat of arms → Coat of Arms of the City of Braunschweig
    Instance of → big city, major regional center, Hanseatic city +3
    + 53 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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