---
{
  "adminArea": "Deutschland",
  "availableLangs": [
    "zh",
    "en"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "category-geography",
    "category-history"
  ],
  "coordinates": {
    "latitude": 52.15,
    "longitude": 13.5
  },
  "createdAt": "2026-10-28T00:00:00+08:00",
  "established": {
    "display": "1990 (Beitritt nach der Wiedervereinigung)",
    "precision": "year",
    "year": 1990
  },
  "id": "place_de_brandenburg",
  "lang": "en",
  "placeKind": "Bundesland",
  "revision": 3,
  "slug": "de-brandenburg",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "wikipedia",
      "locator": "abgerufen 2026-10-28",
      "title": "Brandenburg — Wikipedia",
      "url": "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg"
    }
  ],
  "status": "published",
  "summary": "Brandenburg surrounds Berlin, has its capital in Potsdam, and covers around 29,650 km² with about 2.53 million inhabitants (2022 census).",
  "tags": [
    "tag-admin-division"
  ],
  "title": "Brandenburg",
  "type": "place",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T00:00:00+08:00",
  "updatedBy": "user:admin"
}
---

# Brandenburg

Brandenburg surrounds Berlin, has its capital in Potsdam, and covers around 29,650 km² with about 2.53 million inhabitants (2022 census).

## Overview

Brandenburg lies in eastern Germany and completely surrounds the capital Berlin. The state capital is Potsdam. The state covers around 29,650 km² and has about 2.53 million inhabitants (2022 census). Its ISO-3166-2 code is DE-BB. Brandenburg joined the Federal Republic in 1990 in the course of reunification.

## Administrative divisions

Brandenburg did not establish government regions in 1990; state administration is organised through four state offices (Landesrathäuser) or branch offices. Below the state level there are 14 rural districts and 4 urban districts (Brandenburg an der Havel, Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder), Potsdam).

## Major cities

- Potsdam (around 190,000 inhabitants)
- Cottbus (around 100,000 inhabitants)
- Brandenburg an der Havel (around 72,000 inhabitants)
- Frankfurt (Oder) (around 57,000 inhabitants)

## Transport

Brandenburg is well connected via Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the Berlin ring motorways (A 10) and rail lines to Berlin, Hamburg and Poland; several ICE and regional lines run through the state.

## Economy

Important are the Tesla Gigafactory site in Grünheide, oil refining in Schwedt, agriculture and forestry as well as tourism (including the Spree Forest and the Potsdam palace landscape).

更新时间：2026-10-28

## 标签

- [行政区划](/en/tags/admin-division.html)

## 关系


## 正文反向链接

- [Administrative divisions of Germany](/en/concepts/germany-admin-divisions.html)

## 来源

- Brandenburg — Wikipedia：https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg abgerufen 2026-10-28