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Municipalities [1] ( German: Gemeinden, pronounced [ɡəˌmaɪ̯ndn̩] ⓘ; singular Gemeinde) are the lowest level of official territorial division in Germany. This can be the second, third, fourth or fifth level of territorial division, depending on the status of the municipality and the Land (federal state) it is part of.
District council. The district council (German: Kreistag, pronounced [ˈkʁaɪ̯sˌtaːk] ⓘ) is the highest institution of a rural district and is responsible for all fundamental guidelines of regional self-administration. This council is elected directly every five years, except in Bavaria where it is elected every six years.
The sixteen constituent states of Germany are divided into a total of 401 administrative Kreis or Landkreis; these consist of 294 rural districts [1] (German: Landkreise or Kreise – the latter in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein only), and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or, in Baden-Württemberg only, Stadtkreise – cities that constitute districts in ...
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
A Regierungsbezirk ( German pronunciation: [ʁeˈɡiːʁʊŋsbəˌtsɪʁk] ⓘ) means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany. Currently, four of sixteen Bundesländer ( states of Germany) are split into Regierungsbezirke. Beneath these are rural and urban districts. Regierungsbezirke ( pronounced ...
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [ a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as ...
Below is a list of municipalities in Germany with over 20,000 inhabitants in December 2022. The list is sorted by population and gives the state of every municipality. In cases where the municipality's name in German differs from its name in English, the English name is listed first with the German name given in parentheses.
The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional districts in Weimar Germany based on the territorial changes after the First World War. [1] The Gau system was established in 1934 as part of the Gleichschaltung process, replacing the de jure ...