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| Capital: | Schwerin |
| Area: | 23,170 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 1,790,000 (2001) |
| pop. density: | 77 people/km² |
| Homepage: | http://www.m-v.de/ |
| ISO 3166-2: | DE-MV | Politics |
| Minister-President: | Harald Ringstorff ( SPD) |
| Ruling party: | SPD/ PDS coalition |
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Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( German: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a Bundesland (federal state) in northern Germany.
It has an area of 23,170 km² but has only 1.7 million inhabitants, making it one of the German states with the lowest population density. The Baltic Sea's beaches and islands, as well as the many lakes in the interior, attract many tourists every year. There are two universities and a number of colleges of applied science.
The largest cities are Rostock, Greifswald, Stralsund, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, and Güstrow. All have a population of less than 200,000.
The old PomeraniaPomerania ( Polish: Pomorze German: Pommern and Pommerellen Pomeranian (Kashubian): Pomorze and Pomorsk Latin: Pomerania Pomorania is a geographical and historical region in northern Poland and Germany on the south coasts of the Baltic Sea between and on proper (Pommern), consisting of SzczecinSzczecin (pronounce: Media:Szczecin. ogg|['tin]]], German Stettin is the 7th largest city in Poland and the second largest Polish seaport on the Baltic. It is also the capital of the West Pomeranian Voivodship. There are 419,000 inhabitants in Szczecin (a (the former Stettin) and the land east of the Oder river (Hinterpommern), is now a part of PolandThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t. Western Pomerania (Vorpommern) was under SwedishThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf control from the Peace of WestphaliaGerard Terborch ( 1648) The Peace of Westphalia also known as the treaties of Munster and Osnabruck is the series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War and "officially" recognized the United Provinces and Swiss Confederation. The Spanish Dutch trea in 1648 until its annexation to Prussia in 1720 and 1815.
Mecklenburg, to the west of Vorpommern, became a duchy in 1348 but was divided from the 17th century until 1934. The states of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz became grand duchies in 1815 but republican government was established in 1918. They were briefly combined with Vorpommern in 1947– 1952 and have been part of the present state since German reunification in 1990.