Berlin-Mitte or Mitte is the first and most central borough of Berlin (Mitte is German for middle). Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core. The area includes some of the most important tourist sites of Berlin (like the Museum Island, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden and the Reichstag among others), most of which were in East Berlin.

In 2001, Berlin's boroughs were reorganized. The former borough of Mitte, located entirely within former East Berlin, was combined with the boroughs of Wedding and Tiergarten (both of which belonged to West Berlin) to form the new Mitte borough.

Localities of the Mitte borough

• Mitte

(the former Mitte borough)

• Moabit
• Hansaviertel
• Tiergarten

(the former Tiergarten borough)

• Wedding
• Gesundbrunnen

(the former Wedding borough)

Neighborhoods of the Mitte locality

• Cölln (1)
• Museum Island (1a)
• Fischer Island (1b)
• Altberlin (2)
• Nikolaiviertel (2a)
• Friedrichswerder (3)
• Neukölln am Wasser (4)
• Dorotheenstadt (5)
• Friedrichstadt (6)
• Luisenstadt (7)
• Stralauer Vorstadt (8)
• Alexanderplatz (9)
• Spandauer Vorstadt (10)
• Scheunenviertel (10a)
• Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt (11)
• Oranienburger Vorstadt (12)
• Rosenthaler Vorstadt (13)

Twin towns

• Higashiōsaka, Japan since 1959
• Holon, Israel since 1970
• Bottrop, Germany since 1983
• Schwalm-Eder-Kreis since 1992
• Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan since 1994
• Tsuwano, Japan since 1995
• Tourcoing, France since 1995
• VI. kerület (Terézváros), Budapest, Hungary since 2005
• Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia since 2006

External links

• Official homepage
• Official homepage of Berlin
• Travel Video about Mitte