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ISO 3166-2:DE
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The part of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Germany provides codes for the names of the 16 states of Germany (Länder).
Note: These ISO geocodes might be trademarked.
The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code DE for Germany; the second part is two-digit-alphabetic.
DE-BE |
Berlin | city-state |
|---|---|---|
DE-BR |
Brandenburg | |
DE-BW |
Baden-Württemberg | |
DE-BY |
Bavaria | Bayern |
DE-HB |
Bremen | city-state |
DE-HE |
Hesse | Hessen |
DE-HH |
Hamburg | city-state |
DE-MV |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
DE-NI |
Lower Saxony | Niedersachsen |
DE-NW |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Nordrhein-Westfalen |
DE-RP |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Rheinland-Pfalz |
DE-SH |
Schleswig-Holstein | |
DE-SL |
Saarland | |
DE-SN |
Saxony | Sachsen |
DE-ST |
Saxony-Anhalt | Sachsen-Anhalt |
DE-TH |
Thuringia | Thüringen |
The codes for Bremen and Hamburg incorporate an "H" for Hansestadt as their first letter. The codes for Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt avoid the more intuitive but historically tainted NS (for Nationalsozialismus) and SA (for Sturmabteilung).
Deviant codes or abbreviations have been used traditionally especially for the (western) compound-named states and they remain in common use today. They often have three letters instead of two.
B |
Berlin |
BB |
Brandenburg (and failed proposal Berlin-Brandenburg) |
MVP |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
NDS |
Lower Saxony |
NRW |
North Rhine-Westphalia |
RLP |
Rhineland-Palatinate |
- ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
- ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the internet.