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Baden-Württemberg is one of the
16 states (Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east
of the Upper Rhine—but one which has some of its major cities
straddling the banks of the Neckar River (Tübingen, Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Heidelberg, Mannheim). It is third largest in
both area and population among the country's sixteen states, with an area
of 35,742 square kilometers (13,800.1 sq mi) and 10.7 million inhabitants
(both almost equivalent to all of Belgium). The
state capital is Stuttgart.
The
Rhine (Rhein) forms the western border as well as large portions of the
southern border. The
Black Forest (Schwarzwald), the main mountain range of the state,
rises east of the Rhine valley. The high plateau Swabian Alb between
Neckar, Black Forest and Danube is an important European watershed.
Baden-Württemberg shares both Lake Constance (Bodensee) and the foothills
of the Alps with Switzerland.
The
Danube (Donau) river has its source in Baden-Württemberg near the town of
Donaueschingen, in a place called Furtwangen in the Black Forest.
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