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Location: Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland,south of Denmark Area: 356,910
sq km Area—comparative: slightly smaller than Montana Climate: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm, tropical foehn wind; high relative humidity Terrain: lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south Population:
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name: Government type: federal republic National capital: Berlin -- Note: the shift from Bonn to Berlin will take place over a period of years, with Bonn retaining many administrative functions and several ministries even after parliament moves in 1999 Administrative divisions: 16 states (laender, singular—land); Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern, Berlin,Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen,Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thueringen Legal system: civil law system with indigenous concepts; judicial review of legislative acts in the Federal Constitutional Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
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Overview: In 1997 the German economy, the world's third most powerful, benefited from robust exports, particularly to other members of the EU and the US, as well as strengthening equipment investment. But anemic private consumption and a contraction in the construction industry limited the expansion. Unemployment continued to set post-war monthly records through the end of 1997 and averaged 4.3 million for the year. In preparation for the 1 January 1999 start of the European Monetary Union, the government has made major efforts in 1996-97 to reduce the fiscal deficit. This effort has been complicated by growing unemployment, an erosion of the tax base, and the continuing transfer of roughly $100 billion a year to eastern Germany to refurbish this ex-communist area. Industries: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages, metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding, machine building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum refining
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Surface: 2,517 km. approx. 60% agriculture surface East/west expansion:
83.5 km. Telephone:
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Been situated between Hamburg ( 70 km) and Berlin ( 210 km), the district Ludwigslust possesses favorable traffic routes. It is good over the federal motorway A 24, 241 as well as the federal highways 5, 106, to achieve 191 and 321. The Elbe port in Boizenburg and the stations in Ludwigslust and Hagenow are nodal points of traffic able to other Lands of the Federal Republic, in particular to the population centre Hamburg as well as to the osteurpaeischen and Scandinavian countries. In the north the district Ludwigslust borders on the state capital Schwerin and the district Nordwestmecklenburg, in the east on the district Parchim and the Land of the Federal Republic Brandenburg, in the south on Lower Saxony and in the west on Schleswig-Holstein. With 2,517 square kilometers surface is Ludwigslust the largest district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the fourth largest in the Federal Republic of Germany. The largest expansion from west to east amounts to about 83.5 kilometers, those from north to south of 60.7 kilometers. It is only slightly smaller than the Saarland. 125,000 inhabitants live here. Ludwigslust is the inhabitant-strongest and surface-largest district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. |
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Ludwigslust
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