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Land Baden Wurttemberg Vacation Guide

Baden-Württemberg is a state of the Germany in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Rhine or Rhein river. It's the third largest state of Germany with an area of 35,742 square kilometers (13,800.1 sq mi) and 10.7 million inhabitants. The state capital is Stuttgart.

Baden-Württemberg borders Switzerland to the south, France to the west, and the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate or Rheinland Pfalz (northwest), Hessen (north) and Bavaria (east).

Its principal cities include Stuttgart, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Konstanz, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Ludwigsburg, Ulm, Tübingen, Pforzheim and Reutlingen.

The Rhine (Rhein) forms the western border as well as large portions of the southern border. The Black Forest (Schwarzwald), the main mountain range of the state, rises east of the Rhine valley. Baden-Württemberg shares both Lake Constance (Bodensee) and the foothills of the Alps with Switzerland.

The Danube (Donau) river has its source in Baden-Württemberg near the town of Donaueschingen, in a place called Furtwangen in the Black Forest.