Bamberg
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Bamberg is a circle-free city in the Bavarian governmental district Upper Franconia and seat of the district administration office Bamberg. Bamberg is an university city and administrative city.
The old part of town worth seeing belonged to the largest intact received historical town centres in Germany and is registered since 1993 as world cultural heritage into the list of the UNESCO.
[edit] Geography
The old-venerable franconic emperor and bishop city extend over the fruitful Talaue of the river Regnitz divided here into two arms, which flow to 7 km (4.35 miles) north the city centre into the river Main. The next bigger cities are Coburg, Nürnberg, Bayreuth and Würzburg
[edit] Expensions of the cities
The city has a surface of 54.58 square kilometers (21.1 sq miles). The north south expansion amounts to 9.6 kilometers (5.97 miles), the east west expansion of 9.7 kilometers (6.03 miles).