Northern Germany
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
North Germany; North German; Norddeutschland; Germany, Northern; Northeastern Germany; Northwestern Germany; Northeast Germany; Northwest Germany
Northern Germany () is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hamburg and Bremen. It contrasts with Southern Germany, Western Germany and Eastern Germany.