Bremen

Revision as of 06:39, 13 June 2023 by A.R.M (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Bremen

Bremen
Bremen City Hall
Flag of Bremen
Flag
Official seal of Bremen
Coat of arms
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Kingdom of Hanover Act 192420 November 1924
GovernmentUnitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Governor
Alexandra
Tobias Rühl
Doris Reichenau
LegislatureParliament
Area
• Total
419.38 km2 (161.92 sq mi)
Population
• 2019 estimate
682,986
• Density
1,268/km2 (3,284.1/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)2019 estimate
• Total
$36 billion
• Per capita
$52,709
HDIDecrease 0.959
very high
CurrencyPound sterling (GBP)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Driving sideright

Bremen, officially the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, is a self-governing Free Hanseatic City of the United Kingdom. Faced by the North Sea to the north and surrounded by the much larger Hanover on the European mainland, it has a population of 682,986 and a total area of 419.38 km2.

As a Free Hanseatic City, Bremen, while not independent of the United Kingdom, is otherwise a self-governing territory with a wide range of powers and a high degree of autonomy, similar to the Crown Dependecies of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the Bailiwick of Jersey, and the Isle of Man. As such, the city's administration is headed by the Lord Mayor, an elected official appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, whom represents the monarch as the city's head of state. Its current status came about as a result of extensive negotiations between the British and Bremen governments, in which the United Kingdom, hoping to seek territorial concessions from the defeated Germany, sought to incorporate Bremen into the United Kingdom, which the latter initially resisted for fear of losing their traditionally independent status. Eventually, in the lead-up to the Treaty of Versailles which ended the First World War, a compromise was reached and later codified in the May 1919 Agreements in which Bremen, while it would lose its status as an independent country, would otherwise be recognised as an autonomous, self-governing territory not part of the United Kingdom, a status that it retains to this day as one of the two Free Hanseatic Cities alongside Hamburg.