Kiel is the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, a Baltic port of about 253,000 people set around the 17-km-long Kiel Fjord where the Kiel Canal meets the sea at Holtenau. Highlights track its maritime DNA: the world-scale Kieler Woche regatta and city festival each June, ferries linking Gothenburg and Oslo, and an easy side trip to the Laboe Naval Memorial with U-995 on the beach. Culture and campus life centre on Christian-Albrechts-Universität, founded in 1665, while the compact core runs from the waterfront Kiellinie to parks and lakeside paths. Fast rail puts Hamburg roughly an hour away, and the port handles thriving ferry and cruise traffic alongside shipyards.
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