context: The Federal Republic of Germany consists of 16 federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia in population and Bavaria in area. Some federal states, such as the Bavarian state, are old enough that the history of political unification coincides with the occurrence of the German peoples. Hamburg, Bremen, and Bremerhaven, the cities of the Hanseatic League, were the only city in the Middle Ages because of their remarkable economic development in the Middle Ages. After the Second World War, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) abolished the old federalism and established 14 wards (Bezirke) across the country, except East Berlin. · Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia) was revived, and East Berlin was incorporated into Berlin.
question: Where is the largest state in Germany?
answers.text: Bavaria