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'''Brandenburg''' is a [[region]] in northeastern [[Country: Germany|Germany]]. The regionen encompasses Brandenburg surrounds the bundesland national capital and city-state of Berlin, and together they form the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, the third-largest metropolitan area in Germany with the same name and has a total population of about 6.2,5 million inhabitants. There was an unsuccessful attempt to unify both states in 1996 and the states cooperate on many matters to this day.
Bordering regions are [[Region: Sachsen|Sachsen]] (''Saxony'') in the south, [[Region: Sachsen-Anhalt|Sachsen-Anhalt]] (''Saxony-Anhalt'') in the west, [[Region: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]] in the north and [[Country: Poland|Poland]] in the east.
The Oder river forms a part of the eastern border, the Elbe river a portion of the western border. The main rivers in the state itself are the Spree and the Havel. In the southeast, there is a wetlands region called the Spreewald.
[[File: Flag of Brandenburg.png|x120px|Flag of Brandenburg]]
