Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Hamburg
- City
- Hamburg
- Total
- 2.6 km (1.0 sq mi)
- Density
- 8,600/km (22,000/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 040
- Vehicle registration
- HH
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Encyclopedic overview
St. Pauli ( German pronunciation: [ˌzaŋkt ˈpaʊli] ; sometimes spelled in full as Sankt Pauli) is a quarter of the city of Hamburg belonging to the centrally located Hamburg-Mitte borough. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the nearby Landungsbrücken is a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world-famous red-light district around the iconic Reeperbahn area. As of 2020 the area had 21,902 residents.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “St. Pauli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.