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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lies on the Baltic Sea, has its capital in Schwerin, and covers around 23,300 km² with about 1.61 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Historical events, figures and related cultural phenomena.
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Berlin (City State)
Berlin is the capital of Germany and at the same time a city state, covering around 892 km² with about 3.66 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt lies in the centre of eastern Germany, has its capital in Magdeburg, and covers around 20,460 km² with about 2.18 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein lies between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, has its capital in Kiel, and covers around 15,800 km² with about 2.91 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Thuringia (Free State of Thuringia)
Thuringia lies in the middle of Germany and, because of its forests, is called the 'green heart of Germany'; its capital is Erfurt, and it covers around 16,200 km² with about 2.12 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate lies in southwestern Germany, has its capital in Mainz, and covers around 19,900 km² with about 4.1 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Saarland
With around 2,570 km² and about 984,000 inhabitants (2022 census), Saarland is Germany's smallest territorial state; its capital is Saarbrücken.
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Saxony (Free State of Saxony)
Saxony lies on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic, has its capital in Dresden, and covers around 18,450 km² with about 4.06 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Lower Saxony
With around 47,700 km², Lower Saxony is the second-largest German federal state, has its capital in Hanover and about 8.0 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Hesse
Hesse lies in central Germany, has its capital in Wiesbaden, and covers around 21,100 km² with about 6.29 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Bavaria (Free State of Bavaria)
With around 70,500 km², Bavaria is the largest and, with about 13.1 million inhabitants (2022 census), the second most populous German federal state; its capital is Munich.
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Brandenburg
Brandenburg surrounds Berlin, has its capital in Potsdam, and covers around 29,650 km² with about 2.53 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg)
Hamburg is a city state on the Elbe and Alster with around 755 km² and about 1.85 million inhabitants (2022 census); it is Germany's second-largest city.
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Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in southwestern Germany with its capital Stuttgart, covering around 35,750 km² and home to about 11.1 million inhabitants (2022 census).
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Organizations
Events
Zhangwang Temple Fair
The Zhangwang temple fair is held at the Zhangwang Temple in Poyang County in honour of the Tang official Zhang Xun, from mid-autumn to the eleventh lunar month, and entered the fourth provincial intangible heritage list in 2013.
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Osaka Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture is a prefectural-level division of Japan’s Kansai region, with its prefectural government located in Osaka City. The prefecture and city are separate administrative units.
Concepts
Tokaido Shinkansen
Opened in 1964, the Tokaido Shinkansen was the world's first high-speed railway. It connects Tokyo and Shin-Osaka over 515.4 km with 17 stations and a maximum operating speed of 285 km/h.
Concepts
Sanyo Shinkansen
The Sanyo Shinkansen connects Shin-Osaka and Hakata over 553.7 km with 19 stations and a maximum operating speed of 300 km/h; it through-runs with the Tokaido Shinkansen.
Concepts
Osaka Loop Line
JR West's circular railway around central Osaka, 21.7 km long with 19 stations; through-loop operation began in 1961.
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Tokyo
The capital of Japan in the Kanto region, home to about 14 million people.
Events
May Fourth Movement
A 1919 social movement that began with student demonstrations in Beijing and spread elsewhere.
Events
Launch of Youth Magazine
Youth Magazine was founded in Shanghai in 1915 and renamed New Youth the following year.
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New Culture Movement
An early twentieth-century movement for literary, intellectual and cultural renewal in China.
People
Mencius
Mencius (Meng Ke) was a Warring States thinker from Zou in present-day Shandong and a leading figure of Confucianism. Later generations honoured him as the “Second Sage”, and he is commonly named together with Confucius as “Kong-Meng”; the book Mencius is attributed to him and his disciples.
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首尔
首尔特别市是大韩民国首都，位于汉江流域，由25个自治区域组成。汉江穿过城市，首尔与周边京畿道、仁川广域市共同构成更大的首都圈；首尔市界和首都圈不是同一范围。历史上这里曾以汉城、汉阳等名称出现。
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Zhu Huan
Zhu Huan (177–238), courtesy name Xiumu, was a Wu commander from Wu commandery. He defeated Cao Ren at Ruxu in 222 and died in the first year of Chiwu.
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Aichi
A prefecture in the Chubu region of Japan, with its capital at Nagoya City.
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North Chungcheong Province
North Chungcheong Province is South Korea's only landlocked first-level province; its provincial capital is Cheongju.
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Shizuoka
A prefecture in the Chubu region of Japan, with its capital at Shizuoka City.
People
Chao Yuen Ren
Chao Yuen Ren (3 November 1892–24 February 1982) was one of the founders of modern Chinese linguistics. He taught in China and the United States and researched Chinese tones and dialects.
Organizations
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
The largest JR company serving eastern Japan, operating the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen and the capital region's commuter network.
People
Emperor Gaozong of Tang
Emperor Gaozong of Tang (628 – 683), Emperor of the Tang Dynasty (628-683) (r. 649-683).
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Japan
An island nation in East Asia made up of 47 prefectures, with a developed rail network centered on the Shinkansen.
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Beijing
Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and a municipality directly under the central government (division code 110000); it is also a key site of the May Fourth Movement and modern scholarship.
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Shaoxing
Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, with administrative division code 330600; a city in Zhejiang, associated with Lu Xun's early life.
Organizations
West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
The JR company serving Kansai, Chugoku and the Hokuriku region, operating the Sanyo Shinkansen and the Tsuruga section of the Hokuriku Shinkansen.
Organizations
Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu)
The JR company serving Kyushu, operating the Kyushu and Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen, with active station-building and real estate businesses.
Organizations
Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku)
The JR company serving Shikoku, linked to Honshu via the Seto-Ohashi Line.
Organizations
Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido)
The JR passenger railway company serving Hokkaido, operating the Hokkaido Shinkansen and headquartered in Sapporo.
Organizations
Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)
The JR company operating the Tokaido Shinkansen and the Chubu region's conventional lines, with the group's highest profitability.
Concepts
Yamagata Shinkansen
A Mini-Shinkansen linking Fukushima and Shinjo; Tokyo-Shinjo in about four hours.
Concepts
Tohoku Shinkansen
Japan's longest Shinkansen, linking Tokyo and Shin-Aomori over 674.9 km at up to 320 km/h.
Concepts
Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen
Linking Takeo-Onsen and Nagasaki since 2022, connecting with Hakata via the Nagasaki Main Line.
Concepts
Kyushu Shinkansen
Linking Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo; completed in 2011, Tokyo-Kagoshima takes about seven hours.
Concepts
Concepts
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Linking Tokyo and Tsuruga; the 2024 Kanazawa-Tsuruga extension brought it into Fukui Prefecture.
Concepts
Hokkaido Shinkansen
Linking Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto through the Seikan Tunnel since 2016; the Sapporo extension is under construction.