postgres The administrative divisions of Germany follow the federal principle with the federation, 16 states and below them government regions, districts and municipalities. /en/concepts/germany-admin-divisions.html concept_germany_admin_divisions concept germany-admin-divisions

The administrative divisions of Germany follow the federal principle with the federation, 16 states and below them government regions, districts and municipalities.

published category-geography tag-admin-division wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verwaltungsgliederung_Deutschlands abgerufen 2026-10-28 2026-10-28T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-28T00:00:00+08:00 user:admin 3 ## Overview Germany is a federal state: legislation and administration are distributed between the federation and 16 states, which have their own constitutions, parliaments (Landtage) and governments. The states are represented in the Bundesrat; municipal self-government is guaranteed by Article 28 of the Basic Law. ## Levels - **Federation**: the Federal Republic of Germany as the federal overall state - **States (16)**: Baden-Württemberg ([[place_de_baden_wuerttemberg|Baden-Württemberg]]), Bavaria ([[place_de_bayern|Bavaria]]), Berlin ([[place_de_berlin|Berlin]]), Brandenburg ([[place_de_brandenburg|Brandenburg]]), Bremen ([[place_de_bremen|Bremen]]), Hamburg ([[place_de_hamburg|Hamburg]]), Hesse ([[place_de_hessen|Hesse]]), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ([[place_de_mecklenburg_vorpommern|Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]), Lower Saxony ([[place_de_niedersachsen|Lower Saxony]]), North Rhine-Westphalia ([[place_de_nordrhein_westfalen|North Rhine-Westphalia]]), Rhineland-Palatinate ([[place_de_rheinland_pfalz|Rhineland-Palatinate]]), Saarland ([[place_de_saarland|Saarland]]), Saxony ([[place_de_sachsen|Saxony]]), Saxony-Anhalt ([[place_de_sachsen_anhalt|Saxony-Anhalt]]), Schleswig-Holstein ([[place_de_schleswig_holstein|Schleswig-Holstein]]), Thuringia ([[place_de_thueringen|Thuringia]]) - **Government regions**: only in four territorial states – Baden-Württemberg (4), Bavaria (7), Hesse (3) and North Rhine-Westphalia (5). Rhineland-Palatinate dissolved its regions in 2000, Saxony-Anhalt in 2004, Lower Saxony on 1 January 2005; Saxony merged its government regions into three directorates in 2008 and combined them into the Landesdirektion Sachsen on 1 March 2012. Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Thuringia established no regions in 1990; Schleswig-Holstein and Saarland never had any. - **Districts**: Germany is divided into 400 districts – 294 rural districts (in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein "Kreise") and 106 urban districts (as of end of 2024). - **Municipalities**: around 10,800 municipalities (about 10,786, as of 2024) as the lowest municipal level, partly organised in administrative associations and Ämter. ## City states Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen are city states: they form both state and municipality and have no rural districts. Berlin is divided into 12 boroughs, Hamburg into 7 boroughs; Bremen consists of the two urban municipalities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. /concepts/germany-admin-divisions.html en zh en theme tag-admin-division admin-division 行政区划 省、地、县各级行政区及其历史沿革。 3647 3 2026-10-28T00:00:00+08:00 当前版本 true /en/concepts/germany-admin-divisions/at/3.html en zh en concept_kind Concept kind Theme