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The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as Freistaaten ("free states").
The Southern states joined the federal state in 1870/71, which was consequently renamed the German Empire (1871–1918). The state continued as the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). Present-day Germany is a federal republic which combines the States of Germany .
The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia.These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten, i.e. federal states, a name derived from the previous North German Confederation; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic) each had votes in the Bundesrat, which gave them representation at a federal level.
Description German Empire states map.svg. English: A map of the states of the German Empire, showing their location, flags and names in English. Date. 3 November 2015. Source. This file was derived from: German Empire blank map.svg : This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:
57,485 km 2 (22,195 sq mi) General map of Germany. Germany (German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and is seventh-largest country by area in the continent.
Date. 28 October 2013. Source. Own work. This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Adobe Illustrator. This SVG file was uploaded with Commonist. This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: Germany, administrative divisions - de - colored.svg (by TUBS ).
Map. Thuringia, [ a ] officially the Free State of Thuringia, [ b ] is one of Germany's 16 states — with 2.1 million people its 12th-largest by population and with 16,171 square kilometers its 11th-largest in area. [ 4 ] Erfurt is the capital and largest city. Other cities include Jena, Gera and Weimar.
The empire was founded on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, France, where the south German states, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, joined the North German Confederation and the new constitution came into force on 16 April, changing the name of the federal state to the German Empire and introducing the title of ...