407. The state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia is …

Answer options

1. Cologne
2. Bonn
3. Düsseldorf
4. Dortmund

Explanation

Düsseldorf is the state capital and the seat of both the Land government and the Landtag (state parliament). Its designation dates to the 1946 creation of North Rhine-Westphalia by the British Military Government and has since been consolidated under state law. The fact that Bonn, while serving as the provisional federal capital from 1949 to 1990 (with relocations completed in 1999), was never the Land capital underscores the constitutional separation of federal and Land levels in Germany’s federal order. Under Articles 30 and 28(1) of the Basic Law, each Land determines its capital within its own competence, typically where its constitutional organs are seated.