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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").
Länder (singular Land) or Bundesländer (singular Bundesland) is the name for (federal) states in two German-speaking countries. It may more specifically refer to: States of Austria, the nine federal subdivisions of Austria; States of Germany, the 16 federal subdivisions of Germany
The gross regional domestic product (GRDP) per capita of the German states is given in this article in nominal values, shown in euros.For easy comparison, all GRP figures are converted into US dollars according to annual average exchange rates.
Landtag (state parliament) of the state of Baden-Württemberg. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany divides authority between the federal government and the states (German: "Länder"), with the general principle governing relations articulated in Article 30: "Except as otherwise provided or permitted by this Basic Law, the exercise of state powers and the discharge of state ...
Deutschland.de — official German portal; Germany Tourism; Information about Germany in English — IamExpat in Germany; German news and features — Expatica; DW-WORLD.DE Deutsche Welle — Germany's international broadcaster; News Portal of the German Embassy to the USA "History of Germany since 1945" (PDF). (1.28 MB) Facts and figures. CIA ...
Baden-Württemberg (/ ˌ b ɑː d ən ˈ v ɜːr t ə m b ɜːr ɡ / BAH-dən VURT-əm-burg; [6] German: [ˌbaːdn̩ ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ⓘ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state (Land) in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
Map of divided Berlin, indicating by the broken line at Berlin's western border the territorial redeployment decided by the Allies. A similar ideological question was the question whether to use "Berlin (West)" (the officially preferred name) or "West Berlin", and even whether to write "West Berlin" in German as two hyphenated words - West-Berlin - or as one word - Westberlin.
The new states of Germany (German: die neuen Länder / die neuen Bundesländer) are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 "old states" upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.