Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern) States of Germany. Germany is made up of sixteen Länder (singular Land, colloquially called Bundesland, for "federated state"), which are the partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The loan word "Land" (with an uppercase 'L') is used in the official English version of the Basic Law[1] and in UK parliamentary proceedings.[2] However, it is sometimes translated as "federal states" in other publications.[3] Although the term Land applies to all the states, each of the states of Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia describes itself as a Freistaat (free state), which has no constitutional significance. The creation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 was through the unification of the western states (which were previously under American, British, and French administration) created in the aftermath of World War II. Politics of Germany. The constitution emphasizes the protection of individual liberty in an extensive catalogue of human and civil rights and divides powers both between the federal and state levels and between the legislative, executive and judicial branches.
It can "be understood as the downright opposite to Nazi totalitarism and was designed up to its details to learn from historical experience and to eliminate any possibility of such a wrong once and for all. "[1] Recent history[edit] 1998–2005[edit] Germany. Germany ( i/ˈdʒɜrməni/; German: Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( )),[15] is a federal parliamentary republic in western-central Europe.
The country consists of 16 states and its capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 80.6 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state in the European Union.