Kiel

Kiel is the capital and maximum populous city in the northern German country of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 249,023. Kiel lies about ninety kilometres north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location inside the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula and the southwestern shore of the Baltic Sea, Kiel has emerge as one of the most important maritime centres of Germany. For instance, the city is known for a spread of international crusing activities, together with the yearly Kiel Week, that's the biggest crusing occasion within the international.

The Olympic crusing competitions of the 1936 and the 1972 Summer Olympics have been held inside the Bay of Kiel. Kiel has also been one of the conventional houses of the German Navy's Baltic fleet, and is still a major high-tech shipbuilding centre. Located in Kiel is the GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel at the University of Kiel. Kiel is an critical sea shipping hub, thanks to its vicinity at the Kiel Fjord and the busiest synthetic waterway inside the global, Kiel Canal. A wide variety of passenger ferries to Sweden, Norway, Lithuania and different countries function from right here. Moreover, today Kiel Harbour is an essential port of call for cruise ships touring the Baltic Sea.