Urban districts of Germany

Bremen (), officially the City Municipality of Bremen, is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen () a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. It is an important port city with about 586,000 inhabitants, the Hanseatic city is the 11th-largest city of Germany and the second-largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg.

Schwerin () is the capital and second-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as of the region of Mecklenburg, after Rostock. It has around 96,000 inhabitants, and is thus the least populous of all German state capitals.

thumb|Rostock Rostock (; ), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 210,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany.

Bremerhaven (; ) is a city on the east bank of the Weser estuary in northeastern Germany, and is a political exclave of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The River Geeste flows through the city before emptying into the Weser.

district in Saarland, Germany