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Potsdam
• berlin in the middle
• Land und Forstwirtschaft |
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Dresden
• very industrialized, most populated
• porcelain and publishing
• economically very good, good prospects |
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Magdeburg
• bad after reunification, industries were inefficient, lots of coal industry
• polluted
• home of Martin Luther, Bach |
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Hannover
• big throughway for traffic, b/w East and West Europe
• Volkswagen in WOLFSBURG |
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Schwerin
• "das Land der tausend Seen"
• Landwirtschaft, cattle
• not very populated, much nature |
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Kiel
• b/w Nord und Ostsee
• Fischerei
• many tourists |
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Düsseldorf
• most populated state
• largest industrial area of Europe
• huge in energy production |
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Mainz
- wine areas
- not so industrialized, but has biggest chemical company in germany, BASF
- important water sources
- Trier: Karl Marx
- Worms: Martin Luther & his theses
- Mainz: Gutenberg |
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Saarbrücken
- steel and coal industries, cars, metallic, chemical industries |
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Stuttgart
- KUKUCKSUHREN!
- Schwarzwald
- cars and computer chips, and Zentralen of Daimler-Benz, Porsche, IBM, Bosch |
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Erfurt
- "Deutschlands grünes Herz"
- in Eisenach, car industry is big
- Goethe, Franz List, Friedriech Schiller ("William Tell")
- Weimar |
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Wiesbaden
- spas
- traffic point for airplanes, freeways |
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München
- largest 'Agrargebiet'
- Alps, lakes
- München w/ Oktoberfest --> tourists!
- beer brewery |
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- Bremen
- smallest Bundesland
- Container-Fracht |
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Berlin
- Siemens has its AG there |
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Hamburg
- on the Elbe, Hafen, "Detuschlands Tor zur Welt" --> biggest port |
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