Greifswald

Greifswald, formally the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald, is a city in northeastern Germany. It is located within the country of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an same distance of about 250 kilometres from Germany's largest towns, Berlin and Hamburg, and 80 km from the Polish border. The town belongs to Western Pomerania and flanks the Baltic Sea, and is crossed with the aid of a small river, the Ryck. It is also positioned near Germany's two largest islands, Rugen and Usedom, and it's miles close to 3 of Germany's 14 national parks.

It has been the capital of the newly set up district of Vorpommern-Greifswald for the reason that September 2011 district reforms. Together with Stralsund, Greifswald forms one in every of four urban centers of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The metropolis's population turned into indexed at fifty five,659 in 2013, consisting of a number of the 12,500 college students and five,000 personnel of the University of Greifswald. Greifswald attracts global attention because of the university, its surrounding BioCon Valley, the Nord Stream gas pipeline and the Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion initiatives.