With a total area of approximately 892 km², Berlin is as large as the cities of Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main all put together.
The city comprises 12 districts, each comprised of neighborhoods and centers with entirely different characters. One quarter of Berlin's area is covered by forests and parks and nearly a tenth of the city's area is covered by lakes, rivers and canals.
Berlin is both a city-state and the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its metropolitan area forms one of the most important conurbations in Germany and Europe.
(Source: Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office (Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg), 2009)
| Overview of geographic data | |
Geographic location | Geographic center - Berlin City Hall (Berliner Rathaus) Latitude 52° 31' 12" N Longitude 13° 24' 36" E |
| Apparent local time | 6 minutes, 22 seconds behind Central European Time 12:00 pm CET = 11:53:38 pm Apparent Local Time in Berlin |
Length of the city border | 234 km |
Widest point | 45 km along the east-west axis 38 km along the north south axis |
Area | in km2 |
Berlin total | 892 |
Land use | in % |
Buildings and open space | 41.3 |
Recreational space | 11.4 |
Traffic zones | 15.3 |
Agriculture | 4.7 |
Forest | 18.1 |
Water | 6.7 |
Other uses, including industry | 2.6 |
| (Source: Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office (Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg), 2009) | |
