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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.
North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns. Hesse: 191 cities and towns. Saxony: 169 cities and towns. Lower Saxony: 159 cities and towns. Rhineland-Palatinate: 130 cities and towns. Thuringia: 117 cities and towns. Brandenburg: 113 cities and towns. Saxony-Anhalt: 104 cities and towns. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 84 cities and towns, see ...
The sixteen constituent states of Germany are divided into a total of 401 administrative Kreis or Landkreis; these consist of 294 rural districts (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 their ...
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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 government of Hamburg is divided into executive, legislative and judicial branches. Hamburg is a city-state and municipality, and thus its governance deals with several details of both state and local community politics. It takes place in two ranks – a citywide and state administration ( Senate of Hamburg ), and a local rank for the boroughs.
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 ...