States of Germany
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Germany has 16 states (German: Bundesländer, singular Bundesland). The biggest is Bavaria and the smallest is Bremen. Most of them were created in 1949 after the Second World War
Exceptions are the Saarland which was put under French administration after World War II and joined the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957 and the former states of the German Democratic Republic which were introduced in 1990 after the German reunification.
Bundesland | Capital | Population | Area in km² | Since |
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Baden-Württemberg | Stuttgart | 10.661.320 | 35 752 | 1952 |
Bayern (Bavaria) | München (Munich) | 12.387.351 | 70 550 | 1949 |
Berlin | Berlin | 3.392.425 | 892 | 1990 |
Brandenburg | Potsdam | 2.582.380 | 29 476 | 1990 |
Bremen (state) | Bremen | 662.100 | 404 | 1949 |
Hamburg | Hamburg | 1.728.800 | 755 | 1949 |
Hessen (Hesse) | Wiesbaden | 6.911.620 | 21 114 | 1949 |
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) | Schwerin | 1.744.620 | 23 173 | 1990 |
Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) | Hannover (Hanover) | 7.980.470 | 47 616 | 1949 |
Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW, North Rhine-Westphalia) | Düsseldorf | 18.076.355 | 34 082 | 1949 |
Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) | Mainz | 4.057.730 | 19 847 | 1949 |
Saarland | Saarbrücken | 1.064.988 | 2 568 | 1957 |
Sachsen (Saxony) | Dresden | 4.349.060 | 18 413 | 1990 |
Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) | Magdeburg | 2.548.911 | 20 447 | 1990 |
Schleswig-Holstein | Kiel | 2.816.507 | 15 761 | 1949 |
Thüringen (Thuringia) | Erfurt | 2.392.040 | 16 172 | 1990 |