how many states did the confederation of the rhine include?
<answer> The confederation of the Rhine include 16 states. <context> The Holy Roman Empire was not quite an empire. It was much more a loose association of some 200 kingdoms, principalities, duchies, and city states. After Napoleon defeated the German armies, he rebuilt the governments into the Confederation of the Rhine so that he could more readily administer this new territory, reducing 200 to just 16. When Napoleon was defeated, things did not return to the way they were. The Congress of Vienna rebuilt a German Confederation consisting of 39 countries.