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The new states of Germany ( 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. The new states, which were dissolved by the GDR government in ...
The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about 1/4 of the eurozone's annual gross domestic product.
German Federal States. The origins of the coats of arms of German federal states covers the historical context for the current arms of the German länder . After the end of the Third Reich, Germany had lost significant parts of its territory and was divided into four occupation zones. Several former states were split between two or more of ...
The sixteen constituent states of Germany are divided into a total of 401 administrative Kreis or Landkreis; these consist of 294 rural districts [1] ( German: Landkreise or Kreise – the latter in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein only), and 107 urban districts ( Kreisfreie Städte or, in Baden-Württemberg only ...
Category. : States of Germany. Since 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany is made up of 16 federal states. This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories. Wikimedia Commons has media related to States of Germany.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Germany : Germany – federal parliamentary republic in Western - Central Europe consisting of 16 constituent states ( German: Bundesland ), which retain limited sovereignty. Its capital and largest city is Berlin. With more than 80 million inhabitants, it is the most ...
v. t. e. The administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic (commonly referred to as East Germany) were constituted in two different forms during the country's history. The GDR first retained the traditional German division into federated states called Länder, but in 1952 they were replaced with districts called Bezirke.
