Baden-Württemberg (deu)

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg ranks 8,158th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Alton, Hampshire, Dorchester, Dorset, and Northamptonshire. Memorable people born in Baden-Württemberg include Florian Schneider and Albrecht Behmel. Memorable people who died in Baden-Württemberg include Gerhard Domagk and Maximilian, Margrave of Baden. Baden-Württemberg has been the birth place of many musicians and writers and the death place of many physicians. Baden-Württemberg is located in Germany.

Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state 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 and population. As a federated state, Baden-Württemberg is a partly-sovereign parliamentary republic. 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, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm. Read more on Wikipedia