Political Map of Germany

Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 states.
The 16 states, by reference to the map above, are:
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Brandenburg
Hesse
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia
and Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen as City-states.

Largest Cities of Germany, by reference to the map above:
Berlin Hamburg Munich (München) Cologne (Köln) Frankfurt am Main Stuttgart Dortmund Essen Düsseldorf Bremen Hannover Leipzig Duisburg Nürnberg Dresden Bochum Wuppertal Bielefeld Bonn Mannheim Karlsruhe Wiesbaden Münster Gelsenkirchen Augsburg Mönchengladbach Aachen Chemnitz Braunschweig Kiel Magdeburg Freiburg Erfurt Rostock Mainz Saarbrücken Leverkusen Oldenburg Potsdam Heidelberg Würzburg Darmstadt Regensburg Wolfsburg Ulm Halle Lübeck Schwerin