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2. Wilhelmshaven, city and port, Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies on Jade Bay (Jadebusen), a North Sea inlet on the coast of East Friesland (Ostfriesland). Founded in 1853 by William I (Wilhelm I) on land bought by Prussia from Oldenburg, it was given its present name in 1869.

Wilhelmshaven Located in Wilhelmshaven, ATLANTIC Hotel Wilhelmshaven is near a train station and on the waterfront. Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge is a notable landmark, and the area's natural beauty can be seen at Strandbad Klein Wangerooge and Hooksiel Beach.

Coordinates: 53°31′0″N8°8′0″E / 53.51667°N 8.13333°ECoordinates: 53°31′0″N8°8′0″E / 53.51667°N 8.13333°E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Urban district
Government
• Lord Mayor	Carsten Feist
Area [1][2]
• Total	107.07 km2 (41.34 sq mi)
Elevation	2 m (7 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)[3]
• Total	75,995
• Density	710/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes
Dialling codes	04421, 04423, and 04425 (each partially)
Vehicle registration	WHV
Website	www.wilhelmshaven.de

Wilhelmshaven is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea. It is Germany's main military port.

Twin towns – Sister cities[change change source]

Wilhelmshaven is twinned with:

Vichy, France (since 1965)[4] Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. (since 1976) Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, (since 1979)

Qingdao, China (since 1992) Bad Harzburg, Germany (since 1988) Bydgoszcz, Poland (since 2006)

References[change change source]

1. ↑https://www.destatis.de/DE/ZahlenFakten/LaenderRegionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Administrativ/Aktuell/05Staedte.html.
2. ↑'Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2018 (4. Quartal)'. DESTATIS. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
3. ↑Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen, 102 Bevölkerung - Basis Zensus 2011, Stand 31. Dezember 2015 (Tabelle K1020014)
4. ↑'National Commission for Decentralised cooperation'. Délégation pour l’Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) (in French). Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-12-26.

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Wilhelmshaven

(vĭl'hĕlms-hä`fən), city (1994 pop. 91,680), Lower Saxony, NW Germany, on Jade Bay, an inlet of the North Sea. It is a major oil port and an industrial center. Manufactures include heavy machinery, automobile chassis, electrical equipment, and textiles. The city is also a summer resort featuring mud baths. It is connected by a canal with Emden and by an oil pipeline with Cologne and the RuhrRuhr
, region, c.1,300 sq mi (3,370 sq km), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany; a principal manufacturing center of Germany. The Ruhr lies along, and north of, the Ruhr River (145 mi/233 km long), which rises in the hills of central Germany and flows generally west to the
.....Click the link for more information. district. Wilhelmshaven was founded in 1869 on territory purchased from Oldenburg in 1853. It was the chief German naval base on the North Sea until the end of World War II, after which its naval installations were dismantled. In 1956 it again was made a naval base. The city has marine biological and geological institutes and an ornithological station.

Wilhelmshaven

(from the name of the German emperor William I and the German word Hafen—“harbor” or “port”), a city in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in Lower Saxony. Population, 102,500 (1969).

Wilhelmshaven is a big port on the coast of the North Sea, at the mouth of the Ems-Jade Canal (freight turnover up to 15 million tons a year). It is the biggest oil harbor in the country (oil pipeline to the city of Wesseling, 390 km away). Industry is represented by the production of typewriters, calculating machines, harbor hoisting cranes, diesel locomotives, and ships (there are two wharfs, including a naval wharf) and the clothing, textile, and lumber-processing industries. It is also a major fishing city. Wilhelmshaven was built as a naval base in 1853.

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