page_title: Baden-Württemberg
section_title: Administration
hierarchical_section_title: Baden-Württemberg / Government / Administration
caption_attribution_description: Der Friedrichsplatz und der Wasserturm. Bei Nutzung des Fotos bitte angeben: Foto: Stadtmarketing Mannheim GmbH
context_page_description: Baden-Württemberg is a state in southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the border with France. It is Germany's both third-largest, with an area of 35,751 km² and third-most populous state with more than 11 million inhabitants. Baden-Württemberg is a parliamentary republic and partly sovereign, federated state which was formed in 1952 by a merger of the states of Württemberg-Baden, South Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Karlsruhe and Mannheim. Other cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen and Ulm.
  The sobriquet Ländle is sometimes used as a synonym for Baden-Württemberg.
context_section_description: Baden-Württemberg is divided into thirty-five districts (Landkreise) and nine independent cities (Stadtkreise), both grouped into the four Administrative Districts (Regierungsbezirke) of Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Tübingen.
   Map
  Alb-Donau
  Biberach
  Bodensee
  Böblingen
  Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
  Calw
  Konstanz (Constance)
  Emmendingen
  Enzkreis
  Esslingen
  Freudenstadt
  Göppingen
  Heidenheim
  Heilbronn
  Hohenlohe
  Karlsruhe
  Lörrach
  Ludwigsburg
   Main-Tauber
   Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
   Ortenaukreis
   Ostalbkreis
   Rastatt
   Ravensburg
   Rems-Murr-Kreis
   Reutlingen
   Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
   Rottweil
   Schwäbisch Hall
   Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis
   Sigmaringen
   Tübingen
   Tuttlingen
   Waldshut
   Zollernalbkreis
  Baden-Württemberg contains nine additional independent cities not belonging to any district:
caption: Mannheim
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