Hamburg 20m, Hanseatic City Hamburg, in Low German dialect called Hamborg, lies in the north part of Germany and is as a city state 1 of the 16 German states on its own. Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and lies at the mouth of the rivers Alster and Bille into the Elbe river, which flows 110 km further into the North Sea. The port of Hamburg ist the largest port in Germany and the secondlargest in Europe. Panoramic view in west direction down the river Elbe to the Containership. Presented by https://www.rantzau.de/.