Can you name the States of Germany?

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States of Germany Quiz

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Published: December 22nd, 2008
Category: Geography
Plays: 39,241

Tags: State Quizzes, germany

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	banandar123:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 05:49 GMT	5 points
	The description of the quiz said I would be surprised at the results, but I wasn't. 2/16 =[ Got the 2 most obvious, Berlin and Hamburg.

	RipTatermen:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 05:50 GMT	15 points
	Baden-Wuerttemberg should work, what with the umlaut and all.

	dystopian:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 05:57 GMT	6 points
	The description of this test got my hopes up, but they were quickly dashed by my ignorance.

	rahv:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 07:58 GMT	9 points
	"baden wuerttemberg" and "thueringen" (german name for "thuringia") didn't work (neither with umlaut nor the way i typed it here). nice quiz otherwise. i can imagine how difficult this is for other people as i couln't name many states of mexico or italy either.

	davidr:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 08:45 GMT	10 points
	The German names of the Laender must be accepted. mutternordrheinwestfalenmutter

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	marpocky:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 GMT	24 points
	How can you be 1/5 German? Do you have 5 grandparents?

	davidr:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 13:03 GMT	2 points
	@Andy B.: I think the binary fraction for 1/5 is an infinite series so I don't think it's possible to be 1/5 German.

	erziraphael:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 13:11 GMT	4 points
	Got them all. But I'm German ;)

	Tim Allen:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 13:21 GMT	3 points
	That was tough. I got three - and only got one of them because of the delicious cream that is named after their State.

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	drza:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 14:01 GMT	2 points
	I got 2 right and after some failed guesses I gave up and I wasn't surprised at all that I only got 2 right..I'm 3/8ths German,and that didn't help at all...sigh,maybe If I was 1/5th I wouldve done better :)

	Roman:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 14:04 GMT	7 points
	Berlin and Hamburg are cities, but these cities constitute individual states. We don't have that in America.

	emilkr:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 14:13 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz. Have actually been waiting for it to appear. When do we get the Swiss Cantons and the Austrian Bundesländer?

	weizenugb:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 14:43 GMT	1 point
	I'm pretty sure the German city-states come from way back in the days of the Hanseatic League. This is why you see "HH" on license plates in Hamburg (Hansestadt Hamburg) and also why the German national airline is called LuftHANSA. I think Berlin used to be a Hansestadt but lost that status somewhere along the historical timeline. I guess Bremen was also one, too?

	schumigt:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 14:45 GMT	6 points
	Got all. But i'm a German too. And the "ue","ae" and "oe" for ü,ä and ö must work in such quizzes, because Wurttemberg is wrong.

	lyttmabatr:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 15:40 GMT	2 points
	I got 3 but only coz i've been to one of them! Should have got more once I saw the aswers though- at least 3 or 4 as I spent 4 months of my life studying german politics. Duh.

	davidr:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 17:08 GMT	-1 points
	@Clair: I got about half a dozen on my first try but the rest were all familiar enough that I got all but one on the next go around

	bencraft:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 17:45 GMT	0 points
	Why is lower saxony above saxony. Those crazy germans!

	davidr:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 18:02 GMT	5 points
	@Ben: Boring answer: because it's lower on the River Elbe than the rest of Saxony.

	tony:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 20:25 GMT	0 points
	I signed on to make the um laut joke but just realized someone already did. This is was foolishly difficult. You foiled me again Mr. Sporcle!

	rahv:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 21:09 GMT	3 points
	@tim welch: you are right, all three city states have been cities in the hanseatic league. berlin lost this status in 1451 (i just read that up). i would assume that berlin is a city state because while germany was divided west-berlin was isolated and therefore a single state and later it was just kept that way. the fact that berlin is so big (and covers such a large amount of land) contributed, too.

	cocky:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 21:55 GMT	2 points
	Got Berlin, Hamburg and Bavaria (thankjs BMW). Tried Bonn, Prussia and Westphalia before giving up.

	Robert_Lo:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 00:06 GMT	3 points
	I think the description was meant to surprise people who thought Berlin and Hamburg are just cities, not states. Not like it helped me at all...only got 3.

	Chiaprofessor:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 00:23 GMT	5 points
	@Ben: In northern Europe, especially Germany, the lands farther north are closer to sea level, 'lower'. That's why Belgium and Holland are also known as the 'low' countries. In Germany, dialects even developed along geographical lines: low, middle, and high.

	Bethannie:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 09:29 GMT	1 point
	Another German here! (Well, half German, and I was born there too!)got them all, but would have liked the German names to be acceptable! Also, agree with adding an 'e' as convential alternative to umlaut. But terrific quiz!

	komischeskind:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 15:21 GMT	2 points
	Great one! I was waiting for this one! Nice :) P.S.: German names work by now, didn't have any difficulties. maybe I schould try to learn the English ones though...

	Dunk:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 15:57 GMT	-1 points
	I got a whopping 4 of them.

	Atala:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 16:41 GMT	6 points
	I only got 3... and I'm 3/19 German.

	davidr:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 17:03 GMT	1 point
	@Bethannie: I'm confused. The German names had been accepted for almost 24 hours by the time you wrote your comment.

	davidr:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 17:04 GMT	4 points
	@wick3d.5ick: "schould" — we know who's been thinking in German!! :-D

	Roman:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 21:58 GMT	0 points
	This was awesome. Quizzes I would like to see would be the Provinces of South Africa, the Provinces of Argentina, the States of Sudan, the departments of guatemala

	komischeskind:	Dec 24th, 2008 at 11:21 GMT	1 point
	@david: yeah... advanced English since 2004 and still not typing flawless ^^ merry christmas everyone :D

	Catherine_F:	Dec 28th, 2008 at 19:28 GMT	1 point
	I'm English and I don't know the English names. I do know all the German ones though, yay! (Bremen was slow coming to me though.)

	ckbryant:	Jan 2nd, 2009 at 13:19 GMT	2 points
	It's excellent that the test takes the german names--the only more excellent thing would be if it _showed_ the german names on the map, perhaps in parentheses: Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). My German friends think that the english names are the funniest thing they've ever heard, especially "Palatinate" and "Thuringia." (Though they all know we call Bayern "Bavaria.")

	tephra:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 21:26 GMT	1 point
	Sad, my family lived in Germany for four years, and I could only remember the state we lived in: Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate).

	revenue:	Jan 13th, 2009 at 10:24 GMT	3 points
	@Tim Welch: Berlin was never a Hansestadt (too far from the sea), but originally it was not one city, but quite a few towns (see the districts). In all, the three (Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin) are so called Stadtstaaten ("Town-States") - state and town don't exculde each other...

	Quartz:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 15:16 GMT	-1 points
	Heh, I forgot easy ones like Saksen and Brandenburg and actually remembered Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Baden-Wurttemberg. 9/16, not bad.

	Mountleek:	Feb 22nd, 2009 at 16:55 GMT	-1 points
	Can you guess which language this is? 1. Rheinland-Pfalz:Porýní-Falc 2. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern:Meklenbursko-Přední Pomořansko 3. Schleswig-Holstein:Šlesvicko-Holštýnsko. :)))

	Edward Russell:	Mar 7th, 2009 at 19:42 GMT	1 point
	Polish?