Dresden
Dresden is the capital of Saxony. It's often referred to locally as Elbflorenz, or "Florence on the Elbe", reflecting its location on the Elbe river and its historical role as a centre for the arts and beautiful architecture - much like Florence in Italy.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Semperoper
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The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
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The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
Dresden Frauenkirche
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The Dresden Frauenkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
Localities in the Area
Blasewitz
Photo: Brücke-Osteuropa, CC0.
Blasewitz is a larger borough of Dresden, Germany in the city's eastern centre on the Elbe river.
Löbtau
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Löbtau is a quarter or Stadtteil in south-west Dresden, Germany.
Äußere Neustadt
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Äußere Neustadt, also known as Antonstadt after Anthony, King of Saxony, is a neighborhood in Dresden, Germany.
Dresden
- Categories: big city, major regional center, urban municipality in Germany, urban district in Saxony and locality
- Location: Saxon Elbland, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.0493° or 51° 2' 58" northLongitude
13.7381° or 13° 44' 17" eastPopulation
572,000Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)IATA airport code
DRSUnited Nations Location Code
DE DRSOpen Location Code
9F3M2PXQ+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 20833613OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2935022Wikidata ID
Q1731Dresden Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Drezden
- Afrikaans: Dresden
- Akan: Dresden
- Albanian: Dresden
- Albanian: Dresdeni
- Amharic: ድረስደን
- Arabic: Dresden
- Arabic: درسدن
- Arabic: دريزدن
- Arabic: دريسدن
- Arabic: دِرَيسْدِن
- Arabic: دِرِسْدِن
- Arabic: دِرِيسْدِن
- Aragonese: Dresde
- Armenian: Դրեզդեն
- Arpitan: Dresden
- Asturian: Dresde
- Aymara: Dresden
- Azerbaijani: Drezden
- Balinese: Drésden
- Bashkir: Дрезден
- Basque: Dresden
- Bavarian: Dresdn
- Belarusian: Дрэздэн
- Bengali: ড্রেসডেন
- Bosnian: Dresden
- Breton: Dresden
- Bulgarian: Дрезден
- Burmese: ဒရက်စဒန်မြို့
- Catalan: Dresden
- Cebuano: Dresden (kapital sa estado pederal)
- Cebuano: Dresden
- Central Kurdish: درێسدن
- Chechen: Дрезден
- Chinese: Dresden
- Chinese: 德列斯登
- Chinese: 德勒斯登
- Chinese: 德累斯頓
- Chinese: 德累斯頓市
- Chinese: 德累斯顿
- Chinese: 德累斯顿市
- Chuvash: Дрезден
- Corsican: Dresda
- Crimean Tatar: Drezden
- Croatian: Dresden
- Czech: Dresden
- Czech: Drážďany
- Dagbani: Dresden
- Danish: Dresden
- Dimli (individual language): Dresden
- Dutch: Dresden
- Eastern Mari: Дрезден
- Egyptian Arabic: درسدن
- English: Drezda
- English: Elbflorenz
- Esperanto: Dresdeno
- Estonian: Dresden
- Extremaduran: Dresde
- Fijian: Dresden
- Finnish: Dresden
- French: Dresde
- Friulian: Dresden
- Galician: Dresde
- Galician: Dresden
- Georgian: დრეზდენი
- German: Dresden
- German: Drežďany
- German: Elbflorenz
- German: Landeshauptstadt Dresden
- Greek: Δρέσδη
- Gujarati: ડ્રેસ્ડેન
- Hakka Chinese: Dresden
- Hausa: Dresden
- Hebrew: דרזדן
- Hindi: ड्रेसडेन
- Hungarian: Drezda
- Icelandic: Dresden
- Ido: Dresden
- Indonesian: Dresden
- Interlingua: Dresden
- Interlingue: Dresden
- Irish: Dresden
- Italian: Dresda
- Japanese: ドレスデン
- Japanese: ドレースデン
- Kannada: ಡ್ರೆಸ್ಡೆನ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Dresden
- Kara-Kalpak: Drezden
- Kara-Kalpak: Elbflorenz
- Kashubian: Drezdëno
- Kazakh: Дрезден
- Kinyarwanda: Dresden
- Kirghiz: Дрезден шаары
- Kongo: Dresden
- Korean: 드레스덴
- Korean: 드레즈덴
- Kurdish: Dresden
- Ladin: Dresden
- Latin: Dresda
- Latvian: Drēzdene
- Ligurian: Dresda
- Limburgan: Dresden
- Lingua Franca Nova: Dresden
- Lithuanian: Dresdenas
- Lombard: Dresda
- Low German: Dresden
- Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany
- Luxembourgish: Dresden
- Macedo-Romanian: Dresden
- Macedonian: Дрезден
- Malagasy: Dresden
- Malay: Dresden
- Malayalam: ഡ്രെസ്ഡെൻ
- Maltese: Dresden
- Maltese: Drezda
- Maltese: Elbflorenz
- Marathi: ड्रेस्डेन
- Mazanderani: درسدن
- Min Nan Chinese: Dresden
- Minangkabau: Dresden
- Mingrelian: დრეზდენი
- Moksha: Дрэздэн
- Mongolian: Дрезден
- Mongolian: Дресден
- Narom: Dresden
- Neapolitan: Dresden
- Nepali: ड्रेसडेन
- Northern Frisian: Dresden
- Northern Sami: Dresden
- Norwegian: Dresden
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dresden
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dresden
- Occitan (post 1500): Drèsda
- Ossetian: Дрезден
- Pampanga: Dresden
- Panjabi: ਡਰੈਸਡਨ
- Papiamento: Dresden
- Persian: درسدن
- Persian: دریسدن
- Picard: Dresden
- Piemontese: Dresda
- Polish: Dresden
- Polish: Drezdno
- Polish: Drezno
- Polish: Drježdźany
- Polish: Drážďany
- Portuguese: Dresden
- Pushto: درسدن
- Quechua: Dresden
- Romanian: Dresda
- Romansh: Dresden
- Russia Buriat: Дрезден
- Russian: Дрезден
- Rusyn: Дреждяны
- Sardinian: Dresden
- Saterfriesisch: Dresden
- Scots: Dresden
- Scottish Gaelic: Dresden
- Serbian: Dresden
- Serbian: Дрезден
- Serbo-Croatian: Dresden
- Sicilian: Dresda
- Silesian: Dresden
- Sindhi: ڊريسڊن
- Sinhala: ඩ්රෙස්ඩන්
- Slovak: Drážďany
- Slovenian: Dresden
- Somali: Dresden
- South Azerbaijani: درسدن
- Spanish: Dresde
- Swahili: Dresden
- Swedish: Dresden
- Swiss German: Dresden
- Tagalog: Dresde
- Tajik: Дрезден
- Tamil: ட்ரெஸ்டென்
- Tamil: திரெசுடன்
- Tatar: Дрезден
- Telugu: డ్రెస్డెన్
- Tetum: Dresden
- Thai: เดรสเดิน
- Tosk Albanian: Dresden
- Tumbuka: Dresden
- Turkish: Dresden
- Turkish: Elbflorenz
- Turkmen: Drezden
- Twi: Dresden
- Udmurt: Дрезден
- Uighur: Drézdén
- Ukrainian: Дрезден
- Ukrainian: Дрезно
- Ukrainian: Дрождяни
- Upper Sorbian: Drježdźany
- Urdu: ڈریسڈن
- Uzbek: Drezden
- Venetian: Dresda
- Veps: Drezden
- Vietnamese: Dresden
- Vlaams: Dresden
- Volapük: Dresden
- Walloon: Dresden
- Waray (Philippines): Dresden
- Welsh: Dresden
- Western Frisian: Dresden
- Western Panjabi: ڈریسڈن
- Wolof: Dresden
- Wu Chinese: 德累斯顿
- Yiddish: דרעזדן
- Yoruba: Dresden
- Yue Chinese: 德累斯頓
- Zulu: Dresden
- Dreesdje
Other Places Named Dresden
Localities in the Area
- Dresden old townSuburb
- SeevorstadtSuburb
- Pirnaische VorstadtSuburb
- Wilsdruffer VorstadtSuburb
- RegierungsviertelLocality
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