Estado alemán

The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign "states". Of the 16 states, 13 are so-called "area-states" ; in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities that have their own administration. Two states, Berlin and Hamburg, are city-states, in which there is no separation between state government and local administration. The state of Bremen is a special case: the state consists of the cities of Bremen, for w