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Capital: | Schwerin |
Area: | 23,170km² |
Inhabitants: | 1,790,000 (2001) |
pop. density: | 77 people/km² |
Homepage: | http://www.m-v.de/ |
ISO 3166-2: | DE-MV | Politics |
Minister-President: | Harald Ringstorff[?] (SPD) |
Ruling party: | SPD/PDS coalition |
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With an area of 23,170 sq. km. and 1.79 million inhabitants, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (German Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; Polish Zapomorze) is the northernmost of the new German Bundesländer (federal states) which were until 1990 part of East Germany.
Mecklenburg, to the west of Vorpommern, became a duchy in 1348 but was divided from the 17th century until 1934. The states of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz became grand duchies in 1815 but republican government was established in 1918. They were briefly combined with Vorpommern in 1947-1952 and have been part of the present state since German reunification in 1990.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is divided into twelve Kreise (districts):
Furthermore there are six independent towns, which don't belong to any district:
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