Hemelingen is located about 6 km east of the center of Bremen on the right bank of the Weser.

The neighboring districts are the Vahr in the north, Obervieland in the south, the eastern suburb in the west, Osterholz in the east, and the Lower Saxony town of Achim in the southeast.

Then Hastedt and Sebaldsbrück became subdistricts of Hemelingen, although they were Bremish long before and they never were Prussian.

BSC Hastedt is a German association football club.

Sebaldsbrück was also the home of the Borgward car manufacturing company, defunct 1961.