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Capital:	Potsdam
Area:	29,478.14 km²
Inhabitants:	2.568.507 (31/12/2004)
pop. density:	87 people/km²
Website:	http://www.brandenburg.de/
ISO 3166-2:	DE-BR
Politics
Minister-president:	Matthias Platzeck (SPD)
Ruling party:	SPD/CDU coalition
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(Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of Germany's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states) and lies in the east of the country. It is one of the new states recreated in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam. Brandenburg surrounds but excludes the national capital Berlin.

Historically Brandenburg was an independent state which grew to become the core of modern Germany (see below). The state of Brandenburg was named after the town of Brandenburg an der Havel.

Geography

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Brandenburg is bordered by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the north, Poland in the east, Saxony in the south, Saxony-Anhalt in the west, and Lower Saxony in the northwest.

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