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Bay in the southwestern Baltic Sea
Photo: Klaas Ole Kürtz (Drbashir117), CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
The northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein faces Kiel Bay, the southwesternmost corner of the Baltic Sea.
By train
Major cities and towns are accessible by train from for instance Hamburg, Lübeck, locations on the North Sea Coast or in Jutland across the border.
By car
Autobahn A7, one of the most important road links between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe goes through the region.
By boat
There are ferries from Gothenburg and Oslo to Kiel.
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the capital, an important seaport and the beginning of the Kiel canal, the busiest one in the world.
Eckernförde (Danish: Egernførde or Egernfjord) is a city in Southern Schleswig in Kiel Bay.
the German city closest to Denmark (7 km south of the border) infamous among Germans for the traffic violations registry being kept there.
the small town on the namesake lake, the largest in Schleswig-Holstein
known as "Schusterstadt" (Shoemaker's Town), because of a lot of shoemakers who once worked in the town
an inland city that became a port, thanks to the Kiel canal
Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig) is in Schleswig-Holstein. The region around the city of Schleswig was a major centre during the Viking Age.
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