Lübeck (German: ⓘ; Low German: Lübęk or Lübeek [ˈlyːbeːk]; [2] Latin: Lubeca), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (German: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany.With around 220,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and the second-largest city in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, after its capital of Kiel.