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Mākara is a locality located at the western edge of Wellington, New Zealand, close to the shore of the Tasman Sea. [3] The suburb is named after the Mākara Stream (mā is Māori for white, kara is a kind of greywacke stone). The Wellington City Council regards the nearby Mākara Beach as a separate suburb.
Makarska is located in central Dalmatia, at the junction of Biokovo and the Adriatic Sea. The town is sharply separated from the interior by the mountain Biokovo (the highest peak of St. George, 1762 m), and it is connected with the central Dalmatian islands of Brač and Hvar by the Adriatic Sea, which modelled some of the most beautiful ...
The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. [a] Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration.
Germany comprises sixteen states that are collectively referred to as Länder. [31] Each state has its own state constitution [ 32 ] and is largely autonomous in regard to its internal organisation. Due to differences in size and population the subdivision of these states varies, especially between city states ( Stadtstaaten ) and states with ...
Mecklenburg (German pronunciation: [ˈmeːklənbʊʁk]; Low German: Mękel(n)borg [ˈmɛːkəl(n)bɔrx]) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Wismar and Güstrow.
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
Dinkelsbühl (German pronunciation: [ˈdɪŋkl̩sˌbyːl] ⓘ) is a historic town in Central Franconia, a region of Germany that is now part of the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Dinkelsbühl is a former free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire .
Bavaria, [a] officially the Free State of Bavaria, [b] is a state in the southeast of Germany.With an area of 70,550.19 km 2 (27,239.58 sq mi), it is the largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total land area of Germany, and with over 13.08 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous German state, behind only North Rhine-Westphalia; however, due to its ...