The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A dock town along the stream Weser, about 60 km (37 mi) south from its mouth on the North Sea, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan locality (2.37 million people). Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area (2.37 million people). A number of high-tech industries have established in the city. Many of Germany's space technology exports are manufactured in EADS Astrium amenities in Bremen, such as the Columbus component of the International Space Station, Europe's Ariane 5 sky rocket upper stages and the Automated Transfer Vehicle

Bremen, a free state in the German empire, bearing the title Freie Hansestadt Bremen. Of the complete region, which has an area of 99 sq. m., about one-half is meadow and grazing land, one-quarter below tillage, and the remnant occupied by a tiny woodland, numerous unprofitable sandy wastes, the bed of the Weser and the towns. The district is widely famed for Market gardening and the rearing of cattle, and fishing forms the chief occupations of the rural population. The climate is mild, but the rainfall is 26.9 in yearly on the standard.