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Baden-Württemberg ( / ˌbɑːdənˈvɜːrtəmbɜːrɡ / 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.
5 days ago · Baden-Württemberg, Land (state) in southwestern Germany. Baden-Württemberg is bordered by the states of Rhineland-Palatinate to the northwest, Hessen to the north, and Bavaria to the east and by the countries of Switzerland to the south and France to the west.
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Description: state in the southwest of the Federal Republic of Germany. Neighbors: Bavaria, Grand Est, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Vorarlberg. Categories: federated state of Germany and locality. Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap.
Located in Germany’s Southwest corner and neighbour to three other German States, Baden-Württemberg lies at the very heart of Europe and shares borders with three European countries. Baden-Württemberg is characterized by the diversity of its landscapes.
Württemberg, former German state, successively a countship, a duchy, a kingdom, and a republic before its partition after World War II. Its territory approximated the central and eastern areas of present-day Baden-Württemberg Land (state), of Germany.
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The history of Baden-Württemberg covers the area included in the historical state of Baden, the former Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg, part of the region of Swabia since the 9th century.
State history. Baden-Württemberg is the only Federal State created as the result of a referendum. In 1952, the States of Württemberg-Baden, Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged to form a single cohesive State in Germany’s southwest.
