Berlin Mitte contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real center of the city. Most of the main sights are located within the Mitte district, as are most of the political institutions and also many media companies. The area around Unter den Linden is Berlin's primary boulevard and represents the very core of the central Berlin Mitte district. 2001 the eastern district Mitte was joined with the western districts Tiergarten and Wedding which has nothing to do with the english word. This can lead to confusion, because normally but not officially one says Mitte when thinking about the old district. Tiergarten consists largely of the big central park in the south, on which borders some political and cultural institutions and the Potsdamer Platz, located in a rather poor residential area with a high immigrant population in the north. Wedding is, similar to northern Tiergarten, basically a poorer residential district with a high immigrant population and only a few minor interesting things for tourists.
