Boroughs of Berlin

The German capital Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs (German: Stadtteile/ Bezirke). The boroughs are called Bezirke in German. The 12 boroughs have political rights like a town community but they are not a legal city.

On January 1, 2001 there was a Berlin borough reform. The reform cut the number of Berlin's boroughs from 23 to 12. This was the result of combining several of the old boroughs. The reform was done in order to cut down administration costs.

Here are the old and the new boroughs:

   New borough name Old borough names Area Population I  Mitte Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding  320,420 II  Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg  256,419 III  Pankow Prenzlauer Berg, Weißensee, Pankow  348,412 IV  Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf  315,054 V  Spandau  Spandau (unchanged)  225,856 VI  Steglitz-Zehlendorf Steglitz, Zehlendorf  288,285 VII  Tempelhof-Schöneberg Tempelhof, Schöneberg  335,171 VIII  Neukölln  Neukölln (unchanged)  306,214 IX  Treptow-Köpenick  Treptow, Köpenick  233,923 X  Marzahn-Hellersdorf  Marzahn, Hellersdorf  252,602 XI  Lichtenberg  Lichtenberg, Hohenschönhausen  258,455 XII  Reinickendorf  Reinickendorf (unchanged)  246,118

(the data in the table is March 2004)