Potsdam is the capital of the German state of Brandenburg and is located on the Havel River next to Berlin, 26 kilometres southwest of Berlin's city centre.
As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 156,021.
Potsdam is part of the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan area, which is home to about 6 million people.
Potsdam is a city of UNESCO World Heritage, a city of parks and palaces on the idyllic lakes of the Havel, a city of culture, a center of film, education and science, characterized by a 1000-year-old history as a royal capital and State capital near Berlin.
