Regions in Germany
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Primary administrative regions in Germany
There are 16 regions in Germany in the primary administrative level.Region | No | Population | Capital | Capital population |
Baden-Wuerttemberg Baden-Württemberg Region | 1. | 10,744,921 | Stuttgart Stuttgart | 589,793 |
Bavaria Bavaria | 2. | 12,510,331 | Munich Munich | 1,260,391 |
Berlin Land Berlin | 3. | 3,442,675 | Berlin Berlin | 3,426,354 |
Brandenburg Brandenburg | 4. | 2,511,525 | Potsdam Potsdam | 145,292 |
Bremen Bremen | 5. | 661,716 | Bremen Bremen | 546,501 |
Hamburg Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg | 6. | 1,774,224 | Hamburg Hamburg | 1,739,117 |
Hesse Hessen | 7. | 6,061,951 | Wiesbaden Wiesbaden | 272,432 |
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony | 8. | 7,928,815 | Hannover Hannover | 515,140 |
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 9. | 1,651,216 | Schwerin Schwerin | 96,641 |
North Rhine-Westphalia Nordrhein-Westfalen | 10. | 17,872,763 | Duesseldorf Düsseldorf | 573,057 |
Rheinland-Pfalz Rheinland-Pfalz | 11. | 4,012,675 | Mainz Mainz | 184,997 |
Saarland Saarland | 12. | 1,022,585 | Saarbruecken Saarbrücken | 181,227 |
Saxony Saxony | 13. | 4,168,732 | Dresden Dresden | 486,854 |
Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt | 14. | 2,356,219 | Magdeburg Magdeburg | 229,826 |
Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein | 15. | 2,832,027 | Kiel Kiel | 232,758 |
Thuringia Thuringia | 16. | 2,249,882 | Erfurt Erfurt | 203,254 |