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  Bremen
    Capital: Bremen
    Area: 404 km2
    Population: 0.68 million





Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: International seaport and trading centre right near the North Sea. Independent state of the Federal Republic of Germany, consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven Two-city state covering an area of 400 square kilometres - smallest of the 16 German states. State's total population: 681,722, thereof 550,392 in Bremen, making it the tenth largest town in Germany, and 131,330 in Bremerhaven. Significance: second most important foreign trade location in the Federal Republic of Germany.
History: 1,200 years old, early centre of the Christian missions to North and Northeast Europe, major role among the towns of the mediaeval Hanseatic League, historically evolved as city republic in the tradition of a trading centre on which patricians left their mark.
 


Information
Tourist Information Office Bremen
Findorffstraße 105
28215 Bremen
Phone: 01149-421-308 00-26
www.
bremen-tourism.de

Links:
http://www.bremen.de/

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