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Baden-Württemberg
state in the southwest of the Federal Republic of Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baden-Württemberg (/ˌbɑːdən ˈvɜːrtəmbɜːrɡ/,[2] German: [ˌbaːdn̩ ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] (listen); Alemannic German: Baade-Wiirdebäärg) is a federal state (Bundesland) in the southwestern region of Germany. It is the third largest German state by total area (after Bavaria and Lower Saxony) with a size of nearly 35,752 km² and population (after North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria) with over 11 million people as of 2017. It shares borders to the east with the state of Bavaria, to the north with the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, to the west with the country of France (along the river Rhine), and to the south with the countries of Switzerland and Austria. Its biggest cities are Stuttgart, the capital, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe. The Minister President is Winfried Kretschmann of the party Alliance '90/The Greens.
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Coordinates: 48°32′16″N 9°2′28″E | |
Country | Germany |
Capital | Stuttgart |
Government | |
• Minister-President | Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) |
• Governing parties | Greens / CDU |
• Votes in Bundesrat | 6 (of 69) |
Area | |
• Total | 35,751.46 km2 (13,803.72 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 11,023,424 |
• Density | 310/km2 (800/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
ISO 3166 code | DE-BW |
GDP/ Nominal | € 477/ $561 billion (2016) [1] |
GDP per capita | € 42,000/ $49,400 (2015) |
NUTS Region | DE1 |
Website | www.baden-württemberg.de (in German) www.baden-württemberg.de/en/home (in English) |
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In 2017, Baden-Württemberg ranked 2 on the Human Development Index (HDI) among all states in Germany.[3]