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« on: April 04, 2012, 08:00:16 AM »

Germany has some of the worst. Well, the longest anyway.

You can't beat district names like "Brandenburg an der Havel – Potsdam-Mittelmark I – Havelland III – Teltow-Fläming I".

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundestagswahlkreis_Brandenburg_an_der_Havel_%E2%80%93_Potsdam-Mittelmark_I_%E2%80%93_Havelland_III_%E2%80%93_Teltow-Fl%C3%A4ming_I
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2012, 04:31:47 PM »
« Edited: April 04, 2012, 04:33:24 PM by General Buck Turgidson »

Each state gets a certain number of districts, depending on the size of the population. Within the states, each district is supposed to have roughly the same number of people.

Basis for districts are the counties, but since the electoral districts are supposed to have similar population sizes, counties often get merged or divided. In the aforementioned example, an electoral district was created out of the entirety of the independent city of Brandenburg an der Havel, and portions of the counties of Potsdam-Mittelmark, Havelland, as well as Teltow-Fläming.
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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2012, 03:29:30 AM »
« Edited: April 05, 2012, 07:53:00 AM by General Buck Turgidson »

what's with the numbers (roman numerals) then?

Yeah, each German district gets also a number assigned... geographically from the north to the south. Districts 1 and 2 (Flensburg - Schleswig and Nordfriesland - Dithmarschen Nord) are located at the Danish border for instance.

But I doubt that any Bundestag member would introduce himself as "I'm the representative of district 178". Most likely, he would use the name of the largest or most well-known city/county in his district.
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