Find the south-west first, then the small border state.
The map shows Germany with state boundaries and four numbered arrows. Saarland is the small area on the lower left edge, west or south-west of Rhineland-Palatinate. The second arrow ends inside it.
Rhineland-Palatinate is its only neighbouring German federal state. France and Luxembourg are neighbouring countries instead. That distinction helps you read the edge of the Germany map correctly.
The other three answers
The other arrows point to small areas farther north.
1
Arrow 1 points to a small area in the north-west. It is much too far north to be Saarland.
3
Arrow 3 ends in a small area in the north. Saarland is on the south-western outer edge of the Germany map instead.
4
Arrow 4 points to a small area in the north-eastern interior. That location does not match Saarland’s border with France and Luxembourg.
A small area is not automatically a city-state.
Saarland is a territorial state containing several towns and municipalities. Its small size does not make it a city-state. On an overview map, use location together with the outline.
Number 2 applies to this particular question image. Another map could use different numbers. The original remains unchanged; the editorial AI images are not maps or geographical evidence.
Geographical location · State of Saarland ↗Small in the south-west, beside Rhineland-Palatinate → Saarland, arrow 2.
Learn the location and endpoint, not just the printed number.
Three words for this question
- der Südwestensouth-west
- The direction between south and west; here, the lower left of the map.
- der Nachbarstaatneighbouring country
- Another country at the national border, here France or Luxembourg.
- das Flächenlandterritorial state
- A federal state containing multiple towns and municipalities, unlike a city-state.