|— State of Germany —| |Schwerin Castle, seat of the state
parliament| |• Minister-President||Erwin Sellering (SPD)| |•
Governing parties||SPD / CDU| |• Votes in Bundesrat||3 (of 69)|
|• City||23,174 km2 (8,948 sq mi)| |• Density||71/km2 ( 180/sq
mi)| |Time zone||CET (UTC+1)| |• Summer (DST)||CEST (UTC+2)|
|ISO 3166 code||DE-MV| |Vehicle registration||formerly: MP
(1945–1947), SM (1948–1953)| |GDP/ Nominal||€35.78 billion
(2010)| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [ˈmeːk.lən.ˌbʊɐ̯k ˈfoɐ̯.pɔ.mɐn]
(also known as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in English, or
nicknamed MeckPomm) is a federal state in northern Germany. The
capital city is Schwerin. The state was formed through the
merger of the historic regions of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern
after World War II, dissolved in 1952 and recreated prior to the
German reunification in 1990. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the
sixth largest German state by area, and the least densely
populated. The coastline of the Baltic Sea, including islands
such as Rügen and Usedom, as well as the Meckl