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Tübingen, an old university city on the River Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east, near StuttgartStuttgart is the capital of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany and has about 600,000 inhabitants June 2004 . Overview Stuttgart Germany, capital of Baden-Wurttemberg state (pop. 11 million, 36,000 square kilometers) and the Administrative District of Stuttgart (p, functions as the seat of the Administrative District of TübingenStatistics State: Baden-Wurttemberg Capital: Tubingen Area:8,917. 82 km² Inhabitants:1,778,517 2001 pop. density:199 inh. km² Map Tubingen is one of the four Administrative Districts ( Regierungsbezirke) of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, located in the south, as well as of the county of Tübingen.

In 2002 the city had 82,885 inhabitants, including circa 20,000 students. Geographical location: 48° 30' North, 9° 45' East. Tübingen is best described as a mixture of an old and distinguished academic flair including liberal and leftist politics, with rural, agricultural and typical SwabiaSwabia (German Schwaben is a historic region in Germany and a language area. The area consists largely of the present-day state of Baden-Wurttemberg, as well as the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia. In the Middle Ages, most of modern Switzerlandn elements. The city contains many picturesque buildings from previous centuries, and lies on the river Neckar.

Tübingen's Eberhard Karls university dates from 1477. Tübingen itself dates from the 6th or 7th century.

Famous Tübingen residents include the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Alois Alzheimer, from whom Alzheimer's disease takes its name and Friedrich Miescher, who was the first to discover DNA. Wilhelm Schickhard developed the first mechanical computer. Hegel and Johannes Kepler also studied in Tübingen.