What is Bonn?
{{Infobox German Location |image_photo = Bonn LangerEugen Posttower.jpg |image_caption = Langer Eugen, centre of the UN Campus at the River Rhine in Bonn (view from the Post Tower). |Wappen = DEU Bonn COA.svg |image_flag = Flagge der kreisfreien Stadt Bonn.svg |coordinates = {{coord|50|44|N|7|6|E|type:city_region:DE-NW|display=inline,title}} |Bundesland = Nordrhein-Westfalen |Regierungsbezirk = [[Cologne Government Region|Cologne]] |Landkreis = [[Kreisfreie Stadt]] |Gemeindeschlüssel = 05314000 |Höhe = 60 |Fläche = 141.22 |Einwohner = 314299 |Stand = 2006-12-31 |PLZ = 53111–53229 |Vorwahl = 0228 |Kfz = BN |Website = {{url|http://www.bonn.de/}} |Bürgermeister = Katja Dörner |Partei = [[Alliance 90/The Greens]] |year = 1st century BC }} [[File:Akademisches kunstmuseum bonn.jpg|thumb|Akademisches Kunstmuseum]] '''Bonn''' ({{lang-la|Bonna}}) is a [[city]] near [[Cologne]]. It is in the [[States of Germany|German state]] of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]. Bonn was founded on an old [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Human settlement|settlement]]. In 2021 about 327,000 people lived there. Following World War II Bonn was in the [[British occupation zone]]. In 1949 Bonn was chosen as the [[capital (city)|capital]] of [[West Germany]]. Bonn was the choice of [[Konrad Adenauer]], a former [[Cologne]] Mayor and the first [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor of West Germany]] after World War II, who came from that area. [[Frankfurt am Main]] had most of the needed facilities already, so using Bonn meant spending about 95 Million [[DM]] to building new roads and building. However, Frankfurt am Main had been an important city during the war, and choosing Bonn was to symbolise a new start for the new Germany. Because of its relatively small size for a capital city, Bonn was sometimes jokingly called the ''Bundesdorf'' (Federal Village). Bonn was the capital of [[West Germany]] from 1949 until 1990. The Bundestag voted to move to Berlin on 20 June 1991, after a heated debate. The Federal President had already decided to make [[Schloß B