Bremen (state)

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Freie Hansestadt Bremen (German) Free Hansestadt Bremen (Low German)
State
Bremen City Hall
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 53°20′50″N 8°35′29″E / 53.34722°N 8.59139°E / 53.34722; 8.59139
Country	Germany
Capital	Bremen
Government
• Body	Bürgerschaft of Bremen
• Senate President and Mayor	Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD)
• Governing parties	SPD / Alliance 90/The Greens / The Left
• Bundesrat votes	3 (of 69)
• Bundestag seats	5 (of 736)
Area
• City	419.38 km2 (161.92 sq mi)
Population  (2020-12)[1]
• City	680,130
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
GDP [2]
• Total	€38.698 billion (2022)
• Per capita	€56,901 (2022)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	DE-HB
Vehicle registration	HB (1906–1947; again since 1956) BM (1947) AE (1947–1956)
NUTS Region	DE5
HDI (2018)	0.959[3] very high · 4th of 16
Website	bremen.de

Bremen (German: [ˈbʁeːmən] ^ⓘ), officially the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (German: Freie Hansestadt Bremen; Low German: Free Hansestadt Bremen), is the smallest and least populous of Germany's 16 states. It is informally called Land Bremen ('State of Bremen'), although the term is sometimes used in official contexts. The state consists of the city of Bremen and its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven, surrounded by the larger state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany.