Map of Germany showing Meck-Pomm

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (English: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) is a German federal state (german Bundesland) in the north-east of Germany. Due to its lengthy name, the state is often abbreviated as MV, and sometimes also shortened to Meck-Pomm.

It adjoins to Poland in the east, Brandenburg in the south, Niedersachsen in the west and Schleswig-Holstein in the north-west. It's capital is Schwerin.

You can find the Mecklenburgischen Seenplatte there, an rural area with beautiful lakes. In total you can find over 2,000 lakes in this rural state.

Federal States of Germany

Baden-Württemberg | Bayern (Bavaria) | Brandenburg | Hessen (Hesse) | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) | Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) | Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) | Saarland | Sachsen (Saxony) | Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) | Schleswig-Holstein | Thüringen (Thuringia)

City states: Berlin | Bremen | Hamburg