ISO 3166-2:DE

ISO 3166-2:DE is the entry for Germany in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Currently for Germany, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for all 16 states.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is DE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Germany. The second part is two letters. The codes for Bremen (DE-HB) and Hamburg (DE-HH) are based on their official names, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg respectively.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

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Map of Germany with each Land labelled with the second part of its ISO 3166-2 code.

Code	Subdivision Name (de)	Subdivision Name (en) [note 1]
DE-BW	Baden-Württemberg	Baden-Württemberg
DE-BY	Bayern	Bavaria
DE-BE	Berlin	Berlin
DE-BB	Brandenburg	Brandenburg
DE-HB	Bremen	Bremen
DE-HH	Hamburg	Hamburg
DE-HE	Hessen	Hesse
DE-MV	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
DE-NI	Niedersachsen	Lower Saxony
DE-NW	Nordrhein-Westfalen	North Rhine-Westphalia
DE-RP	Rheinland-Pfalz	Rhineland-Palatinate
DE-SL	Saarland	Saarland
DE-SN	Sachsen	Saxony
DE-ST	Sachsen-Anhalt	Saxony-Anhalt
DE-SH	Schleswig-Holstein	Schleswig-Holstein
DE-TH	Thüringen	Thuringia

Notes

1. For reference only, English Name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

See also

• Administrative divisions of Germany
• FIPS region codes of Germany
• NUTS codes of Germany

External links

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: DE
• States of Germany, Statoids.com