388. What type of federal state (Land) is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern?

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Explanation

In German constitutional practice, a distinction is drawn between city-states (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen) and territorial states (Flächenländer); Mecklenburg-Vorpommern belongs to the latter. The title “Free State” is a historical-political designation from the Weimar era used today by Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia without any distinct constitutional status, and it does not apply to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Reconstituted in 1990 upon the accession of the former GDR Länder under the old Article 23 of the Basic Law, it is a territorial Land with its own constitution, government, and legislature on the Baltic coast.