🇩🇪 Germany 16 administrative divisions
16 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 91,551 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- DE · DEU · 276
- Capital
- Berlin
- Continent
- Europe
- Currency
- EUR — euro
- Calling code
- +49
- Internet domain
- .de
- Divisions
- 16
- Cities and towns
- 91,551
Divisions
The 16 divisions of Germany
16 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bavaria | DE-BY | 38,829 | 13,038,724 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | DE-NW | 9,945 | 17,572,000 |
| Lower Saxony | DE-NI | 7,066 | 7,943,265 |
| Baden-Wurttemberg | DE-BW | 6,075 | 10,703,000 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | DE-MV | 5,312 | 1,570,817 |
| Saxony | DE-SN | 4,354 | 4,089,467 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | DE-RP | 3,738 | 3,994,000 |
| Hesse | DE-HE | 3,733 | 6,207,278 |
| Brandenburg | DE-BB | 3,593 | 2,449,193 |
| Thuringia | DE-TH | 3,274 | 2,161,000 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | DE-ST | 2,679 | 2,245,470 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | DE-SH | 1,895 | 2,815,955 |
| Saarland | DE-SL | 421 | 986,887 |
| Berlin | DE-BE | 399 | 3,782,202 |
| Hamburg | DE-HH | 156 | 1,910,160 |
| Bremen | DE-HB | 78 | 693,204 |
A further 4 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Germany
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/DE.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/DE/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.