It is a city-state (like Hamburg and Bremen), meaning that the city and the state government are one and the same.
Completely surrounded by the state of Brandenburg.
Divided into 12 districts (Bezirke) and 97 localities.
Governance: The governing mayor (Regierender Bürgermeister) is both head of the city and state premier; the parliament is called the Abgeordnetenhaus (House of Representatives).
Status since 1990: After German reunification, East and West Berlin became one state again, and the government definitively returned from Bonn to Berlin in 1999.
Berlin thus combines the roles of metropolis, capital (with the Bundestag, Bundesrat, and Federal President), and a fully-fledged federal state with its own constitution and powers.
In short: one city = one state = the German capital.
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