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Its location on the Baltic shore facilitates its connection with Scandinavian and Baltic States and Russia by sea. Kiel is Germany's major shipbuilding and sea transport center, and it concentrates a large share of national high-tech military. As long as Kiel bore a strategic industrial meaning for the third Reich before and during World War II, it became a much-craved-for target for anti-Hitler coalition troops and was bombed heavily. About 80% of the city was destroyed. Unfortunately, the war took about 80% of its beautiful historic buildings.

Kiel was rebuilt after the war, and some of its historic buildings are intact, such as, for example, the 13th century Saint Nicholas' Church. There are parks and lakes in the central district of the city, which makes its downtown area attractive for both Kiel's residents and visitors.

Kiel is placed in the vicinity of the Bundesautobahn 7, the highway that crosses Europe south to north. The city has a railroad connection with other German cities, such as Hamburg and Lubeck, and with Copenhagen, Denmark.
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