Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
—  State of Germany  —
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 53°37′N 12°42′E
Country	Germany
Capital	Schwerin
Government
• Minister President	Erwin Sellering (SPD)
• Governing parties	SPD / CDU
Area
• Total	23,174 km2 (8,948 sq mi)
Population
• Total	1,694,600
• Density	73.125/km2 (189.393/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
NUTS Region

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (German: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is one of the 16 States of Germany. The capital is Schwerin.

Cities

The largest cities in the state are:

• Rostock,
• Greifswald,
• Stralsund,
• Schwerin,
• Neubrandenburg, and
• Güstrow.

All have a population of less than 200,000. Schwerin, the state capital, is the smallest state capital in Germany. Usually Schwerin would not be called a city. In Germany a city has over 100000 people.

Districts

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was going to change the borders of all of its urban districts (towns) and rural districts (kreise or "counties". The state supreme court stopped the changes.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is currently divided into twelve Kreise (districts):

Bad Doberan Demmin Güstrow Ludwigslust Mecklenburg-Strelitz Müritz

Nordvorpommern Nordwestmecklenburg Ostvorpommern Parchim Rügen Uecker-Randow

Also there are six independent urban districts:

1. Greifswald (HGW)
2. Neubrandenburg (NB)
3. Rostock (HRO)
4. Schwerin (SN)
5. Stralsund (HST)
6. Wismar (HWI)