Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
| Coordinates: 48°32′16″N 9°2′28″E / 48.53778°N 9.04111°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| Founded | 25 April 1952[1] |
| Capital | Stuttgart |
| Government | |
| • Body | Landtag of Baden-Württemberg |
| • Minister-President | Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) |
| • Governing parties | Greens / CDU |
| • Bundesrat votes | 6 (of 69) |
| • Bundestag seats | 79 (of 630) (as of 2025) |
| Area | |
• Total | 35,747.85 km2 (13,802.32 sq mi) |
| Population (2020-09-30)[3] | |
• Total | 11,111,496 · 3rd |
| • Density | 311/km2 (810/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €650.225 billion (2024) |
| • Per capita | €57,294 (2024) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | DE-BW |
| NUTS Region | DE1 |
| HDI (2022) | 0.963[5] very high · 3rd |
| Website | baden-wuerttemberg.de |
Baden-Württemberg (/ˌbɑːdən ˈvɜːrtəmbɜːrɡ/ BAH-dən VURT-əm-burg;[6] German: [ˌbaːdn̩ ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ⓘ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state (Land) in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants as of 2019 across a total area of nearly 35,752 km2 (13,804 sq mi), it is the third-largest German state by both area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria).[7] The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Konstanz, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm.
Modern Baden-Württemberg includes the historical territories of Baden, Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg became a state of West Germany in April 1952 through the merger of South Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. These states had been created by the Allies as they separated traditional states into occupation zones after World War II.
Baden-Württemberg is especially known for its strong economy with various industries like car manufacturing, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, the service sector, and more.[8][9][10] It has the third-highest gross regional product (GRP) in Germany. Part of the Four Motors for Europe and located in the Blue Banana, some of the largest German companies are headquartered in Baden-Württemberg, including Mercedes-Benz Group, Schwarz Group, Porsche, Bosch and SAP.
The sobriquet Ländle, a diminutive of the word Land in the local Swabian, Alemannic and Franconian dialects, is sometimes used as a synonym for Baden-Württemberg.[11][12][13]
- ^ "25. April 1952 – Die Entstehung des Landes Baden-Württemberg". Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Fläche und Bevölkerung". Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder (in German). Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2017". Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (in German). 2018.
- ^ "Gross domestic product, gross value added in the states of the Federal Republic of Germany 1991 to 2024 (Series 1 Volume 1)". Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder (in German). 2025.
- ^ "Subnational HDI". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ Jones, Daniel (2003) [1917], Peter Roach; James Hartmann; Jane Setter (eds.), English Pronouncing Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 3-12-539683-2
- ^ "Our State". Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "Alles zum Thema Baden-Württemberg". rtl.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "50 größte Unternehmen in Baden-Württemberg: Daimler ist nicht in jeder Hinsicht Top". Stuttgarter Zeitung (in German). 17 December 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Das sind die Top-Konzerne aus dem Südwesten". WirtschaftsWoche (in German). 15 November 2013. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "man-English Dictionary: ["little country"; local nickname for the state of Baden Wuerttemberg]". dict.cc. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- ^ Vollmuth, Hannes; Bauer, Wolfgang; Kemper, Anna; Faller, Heike (25 September 2014). "Baden-Württemberg: Kein schöner Ländle". Die Zeit. ZEIT MAGAZIN. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ^ "Ländle". Duden Wörterbuch. Retrieved 18 September 2020.