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City website available in eleven languages from April

The City of Bonn's website will be available in ten additional languages from the beginning of April 2025. The content will be translated automatically and in compliance with data protection regulations using software from the Cologne-based company DeepL SE.

The home page of the city's website in Turkish. Ten additional languages can be selected via the globe (top right).

In addition to German, the city's website ( www.bonn.de (opens in a new tab)) will also be available in English, Arabic, French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. The city has based its choice of languages on the population distribution in Bonn and will check whether other languages can be offered.

The city administration has implemented the project with the technical service provider Sitepark from Münster. The Bonn Office for Press, Protocol and Public Relations, the E-Government Department of the Personnel and Organization Office and the Data Protection Unit were involved.

Bonn is known as the city of the United Nations. Many UN organizations, ministries and companies from different countries work here. The automatic translation helps to present the linguistic diversity of the international location on the website.

Addressing the international community

Previously, the city's website was only available in German and selected content in English. The English version  was not translated automatically, but was maintained by the Bonn Department of International Affairs and Global Sustainability and Bonn Information, among others. This independent version https://international.bonn.de will be retained and will focus even more strongly than before on the international staff of the United Nations and other institutions.

Multilingual chatbot

Since the beginning of 2025, there has also been a chatbot on the website that is based on artificial intelligence. This chatbot can provide answers on administrative services, contact information and events in around 95 languages. If required, the answers can also be provided in plain language.

Translated with deepl.com (free version)