Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243. Kiel lies approxima…Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243. Kiel lies approximately 90 kilometres north of Hamburg, and about the same distance south of the Danish border. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland peninsula on the southwestern shore of the Baltic Sea, Kiel has become one of Germany's major maritime centres, known for a variety of international sailing events, including the annual Kiel Week, which is the biggest sailing event in the world. Kiel is also known for the Kiel Mutiny, when sailors refused orders to prepare to engage the British Navy in the last weeks of World War I, sparking the German Revolution which led to the abdication of the Kaiser and the formation of the Weimar Republic. The Olympic sailing competitions of the 1936 and the 1972 Summer Olympics were held in the Bay of Kiel.
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