16 German States

1. Schleswig: Holstein : The Flounder fish here lay in the mud flats where people come for a tour.
2. Hamburg: Thomas Cotterell's company controls and houses imported goods like spices, rubber, coffee and cocoa and has been around for 122 years.
3. Bremen: Has ports for trading goods, but the ships are becoming sparce because of the high docking fees.
4. Lower Saxony: Wolfsburg is where the VW headquarters is located. (I stayed here for 11 days!)
5. North Rhine-Westphalia: Steel mill that had a two month strike.
6. Hesse: All the banks in Frankfurt make this state very international.
7. Rhineland Palatinate: Two-thirds of Germany's wine is produced in this state.
8. Saarland: Food is celebrated here because of the the closeness to France.
9. Baden-Wuerttemberg: Ulrich Ruediger created the scanning tunneling microscope which costs around a million euros.
10. Bavaria: Bernhard Mumm makes three-dimensional ultrasound images that can be turned and manipulated.
11. Thuringia: Is the German capital for glass art.
12. Saxony: The Technical University in Freiberg is one of the trend-setting universities in silicon research and the development of large solar energy plants.
13. Saxony-Anhalt: Are the nation's earliest risers.
14. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Mecklenburg is a state devoted to tourism, farming and livestock breeding.
15. Berlin: Most famous street snack, the currywurst, is located in Berlin.
16. Brandenburg: One third of this state's acreage is all nature.