Kiel
German city, capital of Schleswig-Holstein
- Country
- Germany(since 1949)
2
Sources- 1.Stated in archINFORMRetrieved 2020-08-26
- 2.Stated in archINFORMRetrieved 2025-05-09
- , British occupation zone in Germany(1945–1949)
- , German Reich(1871–1945)
- +3 more
- Germany(since 1949)
- Located in
- Schleswig-Holstein(since 1946)
- , Duchy of Holstein(until 1864)
- , Province of Schleswig-Holstein(1867–1946)
- Population
- 251,842(December 31, 2025)
1
- , 252,668(December 31, 2024)
1
Sources- 1.Stated in register of German municipalities (2024)Retrieved 2026-06-29
- , 248,873(December 31, 2023)
1
Sources- 1.Stated in register of German municipalities (2023)Retrieved 2024-11-16
- +20 more
- 251,842(December 31, 2025)
- Area
- 118.65 km²(December 31, 2017)
2
Sources- 1.destatis.de/DE/ZahlenFakten/LaenderRegionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Administrativ/Aktuell/05Staedte.html
- 2.“Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2018 (4. Quartal)”destatis.de/DE/ZahlenFakten/LaenderRegionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Administrativ/Archiv/GVAuszugQ/AuszugGV4QAktuell.htmlRetrieved 2019-03-10
- , 119M m²
- 118.65 km²(December 31, 2017)
- Elevation
- 5 m
- Head of government
- Ulf Kämpfer(2014–2026)
- Founded
- 1242
- Postal code
- 24103–24159
- , 24159
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
180 statements · 28% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Twinned administrative body
- Gdynia(since 1985)
- Vaasa(since 1967)
3
- Brest(since 1964)
- Coventry(since 1967)
- Tallinn(since 1986)
- Stralsund(since 1987)
- Kaliningrad(since 1992)
- Sovetsk(since 1992)
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- Antakya(since 2012)
- Moshi District(since 2013)
- San Francisco(since 2017)
- Aarhus(since 2019)
- Member of
- Wendish cities
- Climate Alliance(since 2004)
- Mayors for Peace(since 1986)
1
Sources- 1.mayorsforpeace.org/english/membercity/map/europe.htmlRetrieved 2019-07-04
- Städteverband Schleswig-Holstein
1
- Union of the Baltic Cities
1
- Short name
- Ki
1
- Ki
- Official name
- Kiel
- Demonym
- Kieler applies to part: masculine singular, masculine plural
- Kielerin applies to part: feminine singular
- Kielerinnen applies to part: feminine plural
- Different from
- Kiel criterion used: toponym is not unique
- Male population
- 120,045(September 30, 2021)
1
Sources- 1.statistikportal.de/de/produkte/gemeindeverzeichnisRetrieved 2022-01-16
- 120,566(October 31, 2019)
- 120,045(September 30, 2021)
- Female population
- 126,556(September 30, 2021)
1
Sources- 1.statistikportal.de/de/produkte/gemeindeverzeichnisRetrieved 2022-01-16
- 126,982
- 126,556(September 30, 2021)
- Native label
- Kiel
- Geoshape
- Data:Deutschland/Schleswig-Holstein/Kiel.map
- Hashtag
- Kiel
On other databases
79 identifiers linking Kiel across the web's reference databases
- Alvin IDalvin-place:368
- ArchINFORM location ID472
- BBC Things ID8ac1f9aa-af20-4220-858c-bd1b244742a0
- BHCL UUIDdf7ce994-cc93-4514-a2bd-873dc3d7a580
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID15238426j
- BIBSYS ID7029429
- CERL Thesaurus IDcnl00010570
- Comic Vine ID4020-61840
- Curlie IDRegional/Europe/Germany/States/Schleswig-Holstein/Localities/Kiel/
- Data Commons IDnuts/DEF02
- Dewey Decimal Classification2--435123
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID9093c466-45e2-46d8-9a5c-dc1d4552891b
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Kiel
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDkiel
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ7709
- Facebook location ID109469289079880
- FactGrid item IDQ10397
- FAST ID1205172
- Freebase ID/m/0g7pm
- GADM IDDEU.15.4_1
- GeoNames ID6559052
- German district key01002
- German municipality key01002000
- German regional key010020000000
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7076954
- GitHub topickiel
- GND ID4030481-4
- Golden ID (archived)Kiel-EKYKW
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDkiel-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0035655
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDKiel
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDkil-97f582
- Harper's tagkiel
- HASCDE.SH.KE
- Hikr waypoint ID96780
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) IDKIEIELJO54BI
- Image Archive, Herder InstituteQ1707
- INaturalist place ID98634
- Instagram location ID784162920
- J9U entity ID987007561807905171
- Klexikon article IDKiel
- Klimadashboard.de region IDe6ab119e-5e03-41c0-bd38-a586de2f25b0
- KSW place ID87354
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID19799
- Latin Place Names IDk/kiloni
- Le Figaro tag IDKiel
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79054749
- Münzkabinett IDlocation/2587
- Museum-digital place ID28326
- MusicBrainz area IDa96d2d8a-ebc3-4845-8e75-1f5be66c38e7
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/1FE80A08-8AB6-470F-A9A5-6023281D2E57
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000975381
- NL CR AUT IDge302981
- Numista ruling authority ID6163
- NUTS codeDEF02
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3922213
- Open Library subject IDplace:kiel_(germany)
- OpenStreetMap relation ID27021
- OpenWeatherMap city ID2891122
- Pinakes city ID291
- Provenio UUID996a8d52-78df-4d36-b8de-90b1de5566b6
- Quora topic IDKiel-Germany
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)kiel
- SBN place IDMUSL001617
- SNARC IDQ48114
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDgeografico/1202262
- Treccani IDkiel
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana IDkiel
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10044804
- UN/LOCODEDEKEL
- VIAF cluster ID312794080
- Vikidia article IDit:Kiel
- Wellcome Collection concept IDqch9daey
- Who's on First ID101748869
- WikiKids IDKiel_(Duitsland)
- World Historical Gazetteer place ID14156947
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PCjMvmbkMQGDHd7mQbtFpCP
- Yale LUX IDconcept/38d9e82f-caa4-428b-886a-3e74b822fdc4
- YSO ID110237