Every GERMAN State Explained! (Pronunciation & Bundesländer) 

Once all this is over we'd love to travel some more around Germany to see other cities! Which city would you like to visit next? 🤔 Also, Check out our new video about, "Germany's Top 5 Cities Explained! " ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QYIhv-yBbZI.html

In Germany, I'm never really asked where I'm from. They usually know as soon as I open my mouth and think "Oh Gott, noch ein Schwabe!".

Funfact: If ou think it is too long to say "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" people will also understand if you just say "Meckpom"

Thuringia is with the Weimar Republic the birthplace of German democracy.and the cities Erfurt and Weimar have both very interesting history

I think it's actually pretty sad that people don't know much about Saxony-Anhalt considering how many beautiful cultural and natural sites it has to offer. Just a few examples that are worth to check out, especially considering that you are fairly close to the border: - Quedlinburg has one of the oldest town centres in Germany or maybe even Europe - The Wörlitzer Park is a huge and beautiful garden/park with loads of sights and canals running through it - Eisleben is the birth place of Martin Luther and in Wittenberg you he started the Reformation (also Wittenberg itself is beautiful) - Dessau has the Bauhaus and the related "Meisterhäuser" which are really important for modern design and architecture - Naumburg has a beautiful Cathedral and in that region you can find Germany's northernmost wine region where the popular "Rotkäppchen" brand is from

Much love from Finland to all my lovely Germans

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern also has beaches, fine, sandy, long beaches.

Ich sage, wie fast alle vom Land im schwäbischen, dass ich „aus der Nähe von Stuttgart“ komme - obwohl fast 100 km entfernt. Aber hier in der Umgebung gibt’s keine größere bekannte Städte 🙈

I mean at least Mecklenburg-Vorpommern got the two biggest islands of Germany Rügen (that's where I live) and Usedom 🥰 actually both are common places for germans to spend their holiday at (especially in the summer because of the beaches)

I’m from Finland and Germany is my favourite holiday destination:) it’s nice place to have fun. I’ve been visiting there mostly North Rhine-Westphalia area:) so this one was a good clip.

When someone asks where I'm from, I definitely say the nearest city. I think that has two reason: people within the states are so different from region to region, for example you can't compare Nuremberg and Munich at all, so Niedersachsen also doesn't tell them much. And, most importantly, Germany being much smaller than the US, people want a more specific answer.

Schleswig-Holstein has an interesting story. Through out the centuries, this state had been belong to both Denmark or Germany back and forth.

You should go to the Saarland region, i used to go there when i was young and it is probably the prettiest place in Germany.

My mom is from the Saarland area. It's not dark. You really should visit. We brought my father's ashes back home after he past 4 years ago. It's a beautiful place and if I went to ever move to Germany, that is the area I want to live.

Grüße aus Magdeburg! I'm from New York but haven't been home in over a year now. Last summer though, when the situation was better than today I visited many cities all over Germany. I've been to every state now! Thanks for your wonderful channel!

8:44 Ich komme aus dem Saarland und ja wir sind zwar nicht viele und haben auch recht viel Wald, aber es lohnt sich sehr es mal besuchen zu kommen! Das Saarland hat auch eine relativ interessante Geschichte, da wir mal zu Deutschland gehört haben, dann zu Frankreich, dann waren wir auch schon unser eigenes Land und schließlich gehören wir zu Deutschland. Unser "Wahrzeichen" ist die Saarschleife wo es auch einen Baumwipfelpfad gibt; man hat eine fantastische Sicht von dort aus. Außerdem "lieben" wir unseren Lyoner (Fleischwurst) und Maggi; was man beides bei sehr vielem essen kann (v.a. Maggi (ist wie ein Gewürz, sowas in der Art)). Wir haben auch schöne Stauseeen wo man drin schwimmen kann. In Losheim (Dorf in Nordsaarland mit ca. 5000 Einwohnern) gibt es auch eine über 100 Jahre alte Eisenbahn mit der man noch manchmal auf Museumsfahrten fahren kann (man kann auch im Stausee schwimmen gehen und im Seehotel (3 Sterne Hotel) übernachten). Und noch viel mehr... Wir werden zwar immer unterschätzt doch wie man ja sagt: klein aber fein. LG aus dem Saarland😊

I learned a lot, great video guys! You guys are so fun, too. Love your vibe. We are moving to southern Bavaria next week 😱😱 with our 4 kids so I was excited to learn more about our new country!

My favorite Bundesland of Germany is Schleswig-Holstein, for me it is the german spoken England, the landscape all around looks pretty similar to England and to Holland as well too, I Love this coastcountries at Europes northern coasts including the Baltic sea, and for me Schleswig-Holstein is the special German , federal State between the two northern European waters, and what i also Love are beautiful sight of the typical German reed roofed Cottages which also can Look similar to the irish, english and dutch cottages as well. I Love that Image for sure, mostly my vacation i spent in Countries like that.

I'm an American and my fiance lives in the state of Baden-Württemberg. I was just there for 2 weeks at the start of this year and I can't wait to go back, so beautiful there.

Tolles Video! Guys you have no idea how much I love you!!❤️ I'm currently learning German and your videos make my journey so much easier! Thank you!!❤️

After 1945 the dweller of the Saarland could vote which country they would live, France or Germany. They vote for Germany.

Thanks for all this info! We are in Bavaria and been on lockdown since we arrived last December. Sharing this video with my family on GU so they have an idea of where we are at and places we cant wait til travel to.

It's Baden-WürttemBERG, not BÜRG - also in english.

Fakten zu Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Die größte Insel Deutschlands liegt an seiner Küste die Insel Rügen und MeckPom hat die größte zusammenhängende Seelandschaft die Mecklinburgische Seenplatte. Außerdem sind die Seebäder auf Rügen und Usedom sehenswert. In Peenemünde wurde die Rakete von Werner von Braun entwickelt.

Vacation state number one is M-V you guys could have mention that, there is way more to talk about...

I was very pleasantly surprised by Bremen. Very cool, laid back city. I really hope youse two make it up there this year!

Very informative thank you very much. I love all your videos. Keep up the good work

Hello guys! Really good having you here :) Regards where I am from, I always said I am from the nearest biggest city, in my case Sevilla in Spain. Thank you for the video!!

Fun tour. Thanks. I was stationed for a couple of years in Baumholder which is in Rheinland Pfalz. I loved it there!

Okay, Deana, here are my thoughts towards the self-introduction in Germany, first of all, I'm a native babyboomer German who has worked as a traveling salesman in nearly every part of Germany for more than two decades so I have had to introduce myself a ton of times and therefore I developed a kind of zooming system for this task. If I meet folks in an area that is close enuff to my home I would introduce myself to the city I was born, if they live farther away I would choose the name of the region. In my case the city name is Wesel and the region is named Lower Rhine, outside Germany with the exception of the Netherlands and Britain I do always refer to myself as a German (My family name is a common one in the Netherlands and the Headquarters of the British Rhine Army was in Düsseldorf so many Brits did know where the Lower Rhine is located). But I moved to Hesse (suburbs of Frankfurt/Main in the 1980s) and with that, I changed the whole process to the phrase "Rhine/Main" area. And that one did although work if I meet US Americans of my age or older because the US Army has had large installations in that area I have a pretty good chance that they know my place. Long story short I always try to pick a name that could work for the human I'm talking through.

Great video. Thanks!

Hi guys! You are great and this channel have potential, whoever it seemed like you didnt know much about many states or cities, so... Yeah I was really hoping to know more about die Bundesländer.

I live in Luxembourg, and Saarland is not really dark, it's like Rheinland Pfalz, but in a smaller version (and with more "French" things because the biggest cities are close to the border). I love their Schwenkbraten (a Saarländisch marinated meat)

Very nice video! A couple of comments from Sweden. When people ask from where do I come, it very much depends on where I am when I get the question. If asked in the US, I would say Sweden in northern Europe, in Europe I would only say Sweden, in Sweden I would say Stockholm or the Stockholm area and in Stockholm area I would say the city of Lidingö. Lidingö is a city on an island and the water separating it from Stockholm is about 800 m (or half a mile) wide at the most narrow point and there we have two bridges one six-lane car bridge and another bridge for trams, bicyclists and pedestrians. Being from Sweden, I have visited all "alte Bundesländer" a lot from the early 1960-ies onwards and all "neue Bundesländer" from the late 1990-ies when our children were old enough to enjoy travelling. Our oldest is born on November 9th, 1989 - the day the Berlin Wall came down! On German accents - as a foreigner - the German I took in school is a more northern version. An example, the bread that you have with breakfast that was supposed to be called "Brötchen" and later when I took a summer class at the University in Vienna, there it is called "Semmel". There are other differences as well some differ between Germany and Austria other between northern an southern Germany and can be the same in for instance Bavaria and Austria. Another example: In Germany they say "Januar und Februar" and in Austria "Jänner und Feber" for January and February, and still both countries speak German. (They also do in parts of Switzerland, but that I would call an accent or version of German that I cannot understand). So today, when visiting Germany I speak a mix of northern and southern German).

Thank you for the time stamps!

*I like this geographic explanation videos! Hope to see you doing some other countries that you’ve been to. Cause rarely have someone do that.*

6:38 Im from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and I never got so dissed in 29 seconds :(

My family is from Rhineland-Pfalz and it never gets mentioned in any travel. They’re from Ludwigshafen, which from what I can tell is only known for being Mannheim’s little brother and having a BASF plant. It was cool to see even a brief mention!

Yaaaay you're back!! So happy!! Danke

You guys always make my day 💓

You guys really might want to consider visiting Rostock in Mecklenburg-Westernpommerania ;) if you like nice beaches, nice cities and nice people (ok we are northern german - so probably difficult to tell). You will have to go through a lot of nomansland to get there but I promise it‘s absolutely worth it. And it is actually the sunniest area of Germany ;)

Fun Fact: The 5th biggest city in Schleswig-Holstein Norderstedt is always overshadowed by it's neighbouring city, so even though it's the 5th biggest city in Schleswig-Holstein I always have to say that it's north of Hamburg. Btw Norderstedt actually means northern town because it's north of Hamburg. Hamburg was founded in the middle ages and Norderstedt 1970

Meeeega tolles Video!!! Das Beste bisher, was ich kenne. Kurz und knackig und lustig. Top! Mehr von solchen cultural videos!

Great video guys!

I had to rewind it when you said "Cancun or Cabo" because it sounded like Kabul. You will find Americans in Kabul but they are mostly not on vacation.

As a Hessian: Since we wont be likely to travel much this year either: Come and explore Hessen! Marburg, Wetzlar, Burg Herzberg, Alsfeld, but also the Bergstraße and Odenwald, our parts of the Rhine area.......Yes, Wiesbaden, too. ...Visit castle Frankenstein on your way south. There's also the Hessenpark and the Saalburg to be seen.... and so on....

Danke für das schöne und kurzweilige Video! 👍🏼 Und moin aus Hamburch :)

Wiesbaden is definitely worth visiting (as is Magdeburg) but I live in Weimar and love it here.

What a fun video, I had expected you to do even more stereotypes. I hardly ever mention that I am from Niedersachsen, I say Hannover (when I am actually from Hildesheim, 20 km away). The further I get away, the more likely I say Hannover. And if they never heard of that, I say "near Hamburg". And I usually mention that it is the area where you speak the best German :) Greetings from Paris.

Very interesting! My family are from Rhineland-Palatinate Family came over on the 🚢ship Patience in early 1800’s as Traber, settled initially in PA and left to settle and build a Catholic Church in Tennessee and I still attend that church and my family are buried there as I will be. Name changed over time to Traughber.

That's a really cool video. Coming from North Rhine Westphalia (biggest state by population) and now living in Berlin (biggest city and capital), so far I have visited all but one mainland German states (sorry, Saarland, but I haven't made it there yet). If you've got the time, I would love to see special videos on every single German state some time, because they are all so unique with their respective special characteristics you just can't all cover in one video for the whole lot of them. Great work, thanks!

Love your videos

Oh my lovely americanos. Why Mecklenburg/Pomerania was so short? No Aviation without Otto Lilienthal from Anklam and no Rockets without Peenemünde. The complete US NASA-Space-Program was desinged by pomerians(north-eastern german scientists) For instance the Nazifriend Wernher von Braun oder Jesco von Puttkammer, etc.

Ich komme aus Rostock, „Meckpomm“. Sofern ich es weiß, lautet die englische Bezeichnung für M-V „Mecklenburg Western Pomerania“.

Very interesting guys. I had no idea how it was. A have roots in Lower-Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern but I've never been there. Cheers from Blumenau (State of Santa Catarina - 🇧🇷 - Brazil)

A video of a food specialty from each state would be interesting!

Yes, you should really visit Wiesbaden, especially the different wells (that's where the -baden comes from). Neropark with it's water-driven Nerobergbahn is definitely worth a visit. I recommend combining it with a visit to Mainz (just across the bridge over the Rhine), which in my opinion has the more interesting architecture. Don't ask anyone in WI for directions to MZ, though, or vice versa. You might end up being sent in circles. It's the "Eebsch Seid", after all ;-)

Please do not call accents (in this case the accent of Thuringia) or dialects ugly. In my opinion it only encourages people to get rid of their accent or dialect and speak high german only. Our dialects and accents are one of the most beautiful things germany has, as you go from city to City and the people always speak differently. It would be a shame to lose them because of people making fun of it.

Mainz and Wiesbaden are two state capitals directly across the Rhine from each other. One of the bus routes in the municipal bus system of Mainz (no. 6) connects the core of both cities. When I was studying in Mainz ()1974-75) I occasionally took that bus trip, so I got to know both cities. I have also been to Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Hanover, Munich and Stuttgart.

Didn't know! Very cool!

5:44 I mention the State first, then the region, and then the city: ... ... Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg xD

This video brings back memories of my German class in high school. When we had to memorize all of Germany’s states.

Thanks for your nice content, guys! I would be interested in the same video about the US States :)

I have always wanted to visit some of the smaller towns with a lot of Medieval and Renaissance history, and those would include Nuremburg, Rohtenburg, Oberammergau, Bayreuth, and Lubeck. I love castles, Schlosser, fachwerkhauser, and Hansa Hauser. I want to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau, and the Bayreuth Festival. If you get back on the road to see more German towns, please consider one of these. Thank you and Viel Gluck to you both!

Im a big fan of yours im half German and half American and I watched almost all your videos keep it up

I lived in Frankfurt for over 6 years and was there when the wall fell. Loved the areas and Wiesbaden is a good place to visit.

Very interesting video! Greetings from Berlin!

Für mich als neuen, deutschsprachigen Zuschauer des Kanals ist es immer sehr interessant zu sehen wie Menschen aus anderen Ländern der Welt auf dieses Land reagieren. Das ist dann auch meist überraschend positiv. Mir wurden schon öfters Videos von euren Kanal empfohlen und ich habe nun beschlossen auch auf den Zug aufzuspringen. Liebe Grüße aus Bavaria

I’ve been to Saarbrücken. I was there last March (early March). I actually liked it. Small town with a somewhat big city feel.

I am from Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Well done Video. Regards from Seelze, a small town close to Hannover, Lower Saxony.

gut gemacht Jungs❤️

Etwas enttäuschend wie wenig ihr über das Saarland geredet habt. Ich mein was ist mit dem Saarbrücker Schloss, Ludwigskirche, der brennende Berg oder die Saarschleife...? Ihr solltet wirklich mal das Saarland besuchen xD

Yes, my state is kinda underrated. You're right Phil. I actually expected that you would also talk about wine. Cuz that's what almost everyone says about Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz (not the only state were wine is made). Alcohol is nothing for me. I prefer a good Winzertraubensaft (or Bitburger 0,0%).

I lived in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lakes and forests is correct. But also some beautiful forest and beaches. Warnemünde, Rostock etc... close to Hamburg, close to Berlin. ❤️ Something someone told me when I was studying there back in 2008. „if you wish to go back in time, come to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, we haven’t caught up yet“ I loved it. ❤️ 🇩🇪

Very interesting you should do it again and talk about which state is known for

Da lernt man sogar als Österreicher etwas😉😁 super video👍👍

Germany is beautiful ❤️ I have been to Köln, always wanted to visit Frankfurt and Berlin 😁

I love the travel with you

I am surprised that you haven't done a video on the city of Hameln especially since it is in your guys neck of the woods... Especially since the Rattenfänger von Hameln and the eerie history behind that town and its folklore... We lived not to far from Hameln in the mid 70's into the Early 80's but I loved that region of Germany and doing Volksmarches back then I still have some of the medals from doing multiple of them still to this day and have them stored away for safekeeping. One thing our Father taught us was to learn about the cultures of the countries we lived in and I enjoy your Videos and brings back very fond memories of my past childhood. Danke Schoen

Saarland is the german Alabama

When I travel on holiday and someone asks me where I come from I usually say: I'm from Oldenburg that's near Bremen. When they don't know the city Bremen, I add mostly that this is near Hamburg, so in northern Germany

My husband and I are planning a trip to Germany and France next year so am really excited to watch your videos! Also, just saw a video where you indicated you would fight someone for flaming hot Cheetos. I’d be happy to send you some along with any other snackies you may be craving. I just need the information to be able to send to you

Hi. This video was great. I've been working on the German side of my ancestry and this really helped me understand the various states/regions. I have been to Germany a couple of times and need to get back. Greetings from Illinois.

9:50 actually the landscape is really beautiful in Saxony-Anhalt (I moved here a year ago), also they have beautiful old towns with castles like Quedlinburg and Wernigerode. But the best state will always be Schleswig-Holstein❤️ (my home^^).

I live in Schleswig Holstein and i can see the sea everyday and i love it ^^

Please Please please make more videos like this where you explain and show different parts or functions of the country and their components

Nice Video. Maybe you could make one or some more videos about the 50 US states.

Schöne Grüße aus der östlichen Stadt Deutschlands (Görlitz ❤️) ... Ich mag euch beiden immer gerne zuschauen 👍 ... Dankeschön & bleibt gesund 💛

hey, Saxony is considered to have a funny Accent, not a ugly one 🥺

I'll be traveling to Tengen in the future so this was helpful!👍

Funfact: The State Hamburg has also 2 tow areas. 1. The City Hamburg 2. A little Island in the north sea called Neuwerk.

When in the States, when someone asks where I'm from, I give a complicated answer: Well, I was born in Pennsylvania, but raised in Mississippi . . . I guess if I were overseas and someone asked, I'd think they would want to know the country, so I'd say, the US (so they wouldn't think I'm Canadian!) and then if they wanted to know more, I'd just say, "a couple of hours from Philadelphia". But it's strange, you can't always assume to know where someone is from: I had a coworker once who mentioned something about her visa. I was floored because I thought she was from the States. She made me guess where she was from: Canada? No. Even though she had NO accent whatsoever, I kept guessing every country I knew spoke English: South Africa; Australia: New Zeeland. I had to give up. She was from Norway!!!!! Sounded like a native born American.

I am a Cologne guy (Kölscher). We definitely refer to cities... forget the D-village

Thanks for saying that Rheinland-Pfalz is underrated. Especially the Pfalz (Palatinate) is also known as the Tuscany of Germany. Our weather is often better than in the rest of Germany, the people are nice and down to earth and you should have shown pictures of the beautiful vinyards. We also drink Riesling-Schorle and eat Bratwurst, Leberknödel, Saumagen and Dampfnudeln :D

Thanks for sharings this it was helpful for us foreigners .am living in Hannover. Some States are new for me.

Lol Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has barely any forest. We have more farms then Bavaria.

Gruße! Love You Guys!

Wait, have you guys been to Koblenz before? I almost never meet people from outside of Rheinland-Pfalz that have been there. It truly is an amazing city and I'm happy to call it my home.

I live in lower saxonie,,county Cuxhaven and in a little village near by Bremerhaven..calls Loxstedt.. Bremerhaven ,the old harbour of Bremen calls Fish town city, because its in the past one of the largest fishing Industries.. A great city❤️