The densely forested state of Brandenburg surrounds the capital city of Berlin and benefits from the latter’s “gin and martini belt”. It lies in the east of the homeland and is one of the new government states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the previous West Germany and East Germany. Brandenburg is surrounded by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the north, Poland at the east, the Freistaat Sachsen at the south, Saxony-Anhalt at the west, and Lower Saxony at the northwest. Brandenburg remained the heart of the Kingdom of Prussia, and it was the location of the kingdom's capitals, Potsdam and Berlin.

Brandenburg is a town of Germany, capital of the district and province of same name, on the river Havel. Brandenburg, initially Brennaburg (Brennabor) or Brendanburg, was initially a village of the Slavic tribe of the Hevelli, from who it was apprehended (927-928) by the German monarch Henry I. Nowadays the people of Brandenburg brag Hollywood productions in the film-producing village of Babelsberg, the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder and more than 280 foreign businesses, encompassing the German HQ of Ebay.