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== '''[[Berlin]]''' ==
[[File:Coat of arms of Berlin.svg|thumb|100px]]
See that entry. The eastern half was capital of [[East Germany]], while the Western half, due to the ambiguous legal status of the place, couldn't vote in West German federal elections (although its citizens, like Chancellor Willy Brandt, could stand elsewhere) and had 20 non-voting representatives in the Bundestag instead). Starting in 1956, it did issue license plates in the standard (then-)West German format (B; sometimes Germans use these as a shorthand for city names in other places, like Internet forums, incidentally).
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Since reunification, Berlin is a single German state.
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== '''Hamburg''' ==
[[File:DEU Hamburg COA.svg|thumb|100px]]
Another city state, it is officially called the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg is the largest German city after Berlin. Its citizens are called Hamburgers, the word for the food item actually coming via the city's name.
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== '''Hessen''' ==
[[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|thumb|100px]]
Hesse in English, located in west-central Germany. Source of an alternative name for [[wikipedia:Burlap|Burlap]], mercenaries from the area fought on the British side during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. Home to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and thus often associated with fairytales to some degree.
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== '''Niedersachsen''' ==
[[File:Coat of arms of Lower Saxony.svg|thumb|100px]]
Lower Saxony in English, this, unlike the other Saxonies, was [[West Germany]]. When "the Saxons" are mentioned in regard to [[Dark Age Europe]] (as in the Anglo-Saxons), this is the land they are from. The later Kingdom and current state of Saxony (whose inhabitants are also called Saxons) is located in an entirely different part of Germany. VW is based in the Lower Saxon city of Wolfsburg.
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