Potsdam
Germany · Brandenburg
Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of Berlin, and lies embedded in a hilly morainic landscape dotted with many lakes, around 20 of which are located within Potsdam's city limits. It lies some 25 kilometres southwest of Berlin's city centre. The name of the city and of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin.
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Practical facts
- Local time
- UTC+1 · 7 h ahead of Costa Rica
- Region
- Brandenburg
- Main language
- German
- On the map
- 52.39° N, 13.06° E
Near Potsdam
- Berlin · 27 km away
- Schonefeld · 31 km away
- Leipzig · 126 km away
- Szczecin · 153 km away
- Dresden · 156 km away
- Rostock · 200 km away
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