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That one. It's the only Bundesland commonly referred to by an acronym and I guess we are lucky that the English toponym still matches. The other three-letter c
by usrusr 3y ago
That one. It's the only Bundesland commonly referred to by an acronym and I guess we are lucky that the English toponym still matches.
The other three-letter candidate (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is more commonly just shortened to Mecklenburg which isn't an option for NRW because the non-Westphalia part is the more important by far but "north-Rhine" wouldn't really work as a standalone name.
Acronyms for our various Saxonies would be rather awkward because both prefix-Saxonies would collide
prominently with an acronym already taken by nazism.
- wink 3y agoI'd say you see RLP in written form from time to time, but yeah, not "commonly". Also BaWü isn't an acronym but you're right, compared to other countries we're not really big on abbreviating the states it seems.