Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Flag Statistics Capital: Bremen Area: 404 km2 Inhabitants: 662,000 (2001) pop. density: 1,549 people/km2 Homepage: bremen.de Politics Minister-President: Henning Scherf (SPD) Ruling party: SPD/CDU coalition Map Bremen is one of Germany's 16 Bundesländer, the federal states of the country. History While Lower Saxony was under British control after World War II, Bremen was under American administration because of its strategic importance as a harbour town. Politics The Bürgerschaft (town assembly) elects two mayors of the city. One of these is then elected by the senate (which forms the executive branch) as president of the senate and is thus head of the federal state. Geography The state of Bremen consists of two separated enclaves, the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven further downstream, on the shore of the North Sea (the name means Bremen's harbour). Both cities are completely surrounded by the neighbouring Bundesland of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). Administratively both cities are district-free cities. External links Official governmental portal States of Germany: Baden-Württemberg | Bavaria | Berlin | Brandenburg | Bremen | Hamburg | Hesse | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Lower Saxony | North Rhine-Westphalia | Rhineland-Palatinate | Saarland | Saxony | Saxony-Anhalt | Schleswig-Holstein | Thuringia This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.