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Freiberg

Western Europe

Freiberg is a university town and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants, lying in the foreland of the Ore Mountains along the Saxon urbanization axis that runs from Plauen through Zwickau and Chemnitz to Dresden. It sits on the Freiberger Mulde river and is connected to Dresden by the S3 line of the Dresden S-Bahn.

Facts
Population
41,205 1
Area (sq km)
48.05 1
Founding Year
1186 1
Population Estimate Year
2025 1
Elevation (m)
400 1
Latitude
50.911944 degrees north 1
Longitude
13.342778 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 2
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1. Freiberg (Wikidata)
  • P571 (inception)
    +1186-00-00T00:00:00Z
  • P1082 (population)
    population 41,205 (2025)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 50.911944, longitude 13.342778
  • P2044 (elevation above sea level)
    elevation 400 m
  • P2046 (area)
    area 48.05 sq km
  • P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
    population 41205 (2025)
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2. GeoNames: Freiberg - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 2925192
    50.91089 13.33881 P PPLA3 DE 13 00 14522 14522180 43670 412 Europe/Berlin
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 412 m
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 13.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 13.25
50.75 13.25 Cfb
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Wikidata: Freiberg
Wikidata Q14819, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
Freiberg (Wikipedia)
  • In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
  • On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Germany; continent follows from the atlas record for Germany
    pronunciation: [ˈfʁaɪbɛʁk] ) is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany
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