List of districts of Germany

Germany is divided into 402 administrative districts. These consist of 295 rural districts (Landkreise),Translation: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), Annex 5 listed fully here, and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise) - cities which constitute a district in their own right.

 District Type (rural/urban) State Capital Aachen ruralThe districts of Aachen, Hanover and Saarbrücken have a different statute, as a Kommunalverband besonderer Art. North Rhine-Westphalia Aachen Aachen urbanAlthough not formally an urban district, these cities have certain rights of urban districts. North Rhine-Westphalia  Ahrweiler rural Rhineland-Palatinate Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Aichach-Friedberg rural Bavaria Aichach Alb-Donau rural Baden-Württemberg UlmSeat of the district's administration, but not part of the district (being an urban district). Altenburger Land rural Thuringia Altenburg Altenkirchen rural Rhineland-Palatinate Altenkirchen Altmarkkreis Salzwedel rural Saxony-Anhalt Salzwedel Altötting rural Bavaria Altötting Alzey-Worms rural Rhineland-Palatinate Alzey Amberg urban Bavaria  Amberg-Sulzbach rural Bavaria Amberg Ammerland rural Lower Saxony Westerstede Anhalt-Bitterfeld rural Saxony-Anhalt Köthen (Anhalt) Ansbach rural Bavaria Ansbach Ansbach urban Bavaria  Aschaffenburg rural Bavaria Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg urban Bavaria  Augsburg rural Bavaria Augsburg Augsburg urban Bavaria  Aurich rural Lower Saxony Aurich Bad Dürkheim rural Rhineland-Palatinate Bad Dürkheim Bad Kissingen rural Bavaria Bad Kissingen Bad Kreuznach rural Rhineland-Palatinate Bad Kreuznach Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen rural Bavaria Bad Tölz Baden-Baden urban Baden-Württemberg  Bamberg rural Bavaria Bamberg Bamberg urban Bavaria  Barnim rural Brandenburg Eberswalde Bautzen rural Saxony Bautzen Bayreuth rural Bavaria Bayreuth Bayreuth urban Bavaria  Berchtesgadener Land rural Bavaria Bad Reichenhall Bergstraße rural Hesse Heppenheim Berlin urban Berlin  Bernkastel-Wittlich rural Rhineland-Palatinate Wittlich Biberach rural Baden-Württemberg Biberach Bielefeld urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Birkenfeld rural Rhineland-Palatinate Birkenfeld Böblingen rural Baden-Württemberg Böblingen Bochum urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Bodenseekreis rural Baden-Württemberg Friedrichshafen Bonn urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Börde rural Saxony-Anhalt Haldensleben Borken rural North Rhine-Westphalia Borken Bottrop urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Brandenburg an der Havel urban Brandenburg  Braunschweig urban Lower Saxony  Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald rural Baden-Württemberg Freiburg Bremen urban Free Hanseatic City of Bremen  Bremerhaven urban Free Hanseatic City of Bremen  Burgenlandkreis rural Saxony-Anhalt Naumburg Calw rural Baden-Württemberg Calw Celle rural Lower Saxony Celle Cham rural Bavaria Cham Chemnitz urban Saxony  Cleves (Kleve) rural North Rhine-Westphalia Cleves (Kleve) Cloppenburg rural Lower Saxony Cloppenburg Coburg rural Bavaria Coburg Coburg urban Bavaria  Cochem-Zell rural Rhineland-Palatinate Cochem Coesfeld rural North Rhine-Westphalia Coesfeld Cologne (Köln) urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Cottbus urban Brandenburg  Cuxhaven rural Lower Saxony Cuxhaven Dachau rural Bavaria Dachau Dahme-Spreewald rural Brandenburg Lübben Darmstadt urban Hesse  Darmstadt-Dieburg rural Hesse Darmstadt Deggendorf rural Bavaria Deggendorf Delmenhorst urban Lower Saxony  Dessau-Roßlau urban Saxony-Anhalt  Diepholz rural Lower Saxony Diepholz Dillingen rural Bavaria Dillingen Dingolfing-Landau rural Bavaria Dingolfing Dithmarschen rural Schleswig-Holstein Heide Donau-Ries rural Bavaria Donauwörth Donnersbergkreis rural Rhineland-Palatinate Kirchheimbolanden Dortmund urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Dresden urban Saxony  Duisburg urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Düren rural North Rhine-Westphalia Düren Düsseldorf urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Ebersberg rural Bavaria Ebersberg Eichsfeld rural Thuringia Heilbad Heiligenstadt Eichstätt rural Bavaria Eichstätt Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm rural Rhineland-Palatinate Bitburg Eisenach urban Thuringia  Elbe-Elster rural Brandenburg Herzberg Emden urban Lower Saxony  Emmendingen rural Baden-Württemberg Emmendingen Emsland rural Lower Saxony Meppen Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis rural North Rhine-Westphalia Schwelm Enz rural Baden-Württemberg Pforzheim Erding rural Bavaria Erding Erfurt urban Thuringia  Erlangen urban Bavaria  Erlangen-Höchstadt rural Bavaria Erlangen Erzgebirgskreis rural Saxony Annaberg-Buchholz Essen urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Esslingen rural Baden-Württemberg Esslingen am Neckar Euskirchen rural North Rhine-Westphalia Euskirchen Flensburg urban Schleswig-Holstein  Forchheim rural Bavaria Forchheim Frankenthal urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Frankfurt am Main urban Hesse  Frankfurt an der Oder urban Brandenburg  Freiburg im Breisgau urban Baden-Württemberg  Freising rural Bavaria Freising Freudenstadt rural Baden-Württemberg Freudenstadt Freyung-Grafenau rural Bavaria Freyung Friesland rural Lower Saxony Jever Fulda rural Hesse Fulda Fürstenfeldbruck rural Bavaria Fürstenfeldbruck Fürth rural Bavaria Zirndorf Fürth urban Bavaria  Garmisch-Partenkirchen rural Bavaria Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gelsenkirchen urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Gera urban Thuringia  Germersheim rural Rhineland-Palatinate Germersheim Gießen rural Hesse Gießen Gifhorn rural Lower Saxony Gifhorn Göppingen rural Baden-Württemberg Göppingen Görlitz rural Saxony Görlitz Goslar rural Lower Saxony Goslar Gotha rural Thuringia Gotha Göttingen rural Lower Saxony Göttingen Göttingen urban Lower Saxony  Grafschaft Bentheim rural Lower Saxony Nordhorn Greiz rural Thuringia Greiz Groß-Gerau rural Hesse Groß-Gerau Günzburg rural Bavaria Günzburg Gütersloh rural North Rhine-Westphalia Gütersloh Hagen urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Halle urban Saxony-Anhalt  Hamburg urban Hamburg  Hamelin-Pyrmont (Hameln-Pyrmont) rural Lower Saxony Hamelin (Hameln) Hamm urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Hanover (Hannover) rural Lower Saxony Hanover (Hannover) Hanover urban Lower Saxony  Harburg rural Lower Saxony Winsen Harz rural Saxony-Anhalt Halberstadt Haßberge rural Bavaria Haßfurt Havelland rural Brandenburg Rathenow Heidekreis rural Lower Saxony Bad Fallingbostel Heidelberg urban Baden-Württemberg  Heidenheim rural Baden-Württemberg Heidenheim Heilbronn rural Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn Heilbronn urban Baden-Württemberg  Heinsberg rural North Rhine-Westphalia Heinsberg Helmstedt rural Lower Saxony Helmstedt Herford rural North Rhine-Westphalia Herford Herne urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Hersfeld-Rotenburg rural Hesse Bad Hersfeld Herzogtum Lauenburg rural Schleswig-Holstein Ratzeburg Hildburghausen rural Thuringia Hildburghausen Hildesheim rural Lower Saxony Hildesheim Hochsauerland rural North Rhine-Westphalia Meschede Hochtaunuskreis rural Hesse Bad Homburg Hof rural Bavaria Hof Hof urban Bavaria  Hohenlohe rural Baden-Württemberg Künzelsau Holzminden rural Lower Saxony Holzminden Höxter rural North Rhine-Westphalia Höxter Ilm-Kreis rural Thuringia Arnstadt Ingolstadt urban Bavaria  Jena urban Thuringia  Jerichower Land rural Saxony-Anhalt Burg Kaiserslautern rural Rhineland-Palatinate Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Karlsruhe rural Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe urban Baden-Württemberg  Kassel rural Hesse Kassel Kassel urban Hesse  Kaufbeuren urban Bavaria  Kelheim rural Bavaria Kelheim Kempten urban Bavaria  Kiel urban Schleswig-Holstein  Kitzingen rural Bavaria Kitzingen Koblenz urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Konstanz rural Baden-Württemberg Konstanz Krefeld urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Kronach rural Bavaria Kronach Kulmbach rural Bavaria Kulmbach Kusel rural Rhineland-Palatinate Kusel Kyffhäuserkreis rural Thuringia Sondershausen Lahn-Dill rural Hesse Wetzlar Landau urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Landsberg rural Bavaria Landsberg Landshut rural Bavaria Landshut Landshut urban Bavaria  Leer rural Lower Saxony Leer Leipzig rural Saxony Borna Leipzig urban Saxony  Leverkusen urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Lichtenfels rural Bavaria Lichtenfels Limburg-Weilburg rural Hesse Limburg Lindau rural Bavaria Lindau Lippe rural North Rhine-Westphalia Detmold Lörrach rural Baden-Württemberg Lörrach Lübeck urban Schleswig-Holstein  Lüchow-Dannenberg rural Lower Saxony Lüchow Ludwigsburg rural Baden-Württemberg Ludwigsburg Ludwigshafen urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Ludwigslust-Parchim rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Parchim Lüneburg rural Lower Saxony Lüneburg Magdeburg urban Saxony-Anhalt  Main-Kinzig rural Hesse Gelnhausen Main-Spessart rural Bavaria Karlstadt am Main Main-Tauber rural Baden-Württemberg Tauberbischofsheim Main-Taunus rural Hesse Hofheim Mainz urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Mainz-Bingen rural Rhineland-Palatinate Ingelheim Mannheim urban Baden-Württemberg  Mansfeld-Südharz rural Saxony-Anhalt Sangerhausen Marburg-Biedenkopf rural Hesse Marburg Märkischer Kreis rural North Rhine-Westphalia Lüdenscheid Märkisch-Oderland rural Brandenburg Seelow Mayen-Koblenz rural Rhineland-Palatinate Koblenz Mecklenburgische Seenplatte rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Neubrandenburg Meißen rural Saxony Meißen Memmingen urban Bavaria  Merzig-Wadern rural Saarland Merzig Mettmann rural North Rhine-Westphalia Mettmann Miesbach rural Bavaria Miesbach Miltenberg rural Bavaria Miltenberg Minden-Lübbecke rural North Rhine-Westphalia Minden Mittelsachsen rural Saxony Freiberg Mönchengladbach urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Mühldorf rural Bavaria Mühldorf Mülheim an der Ruhr urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Munich (München) rural Bavaria Munich (München) Munich urban Bavaria  Münster urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Neckar-Odenwald rural Baden-Württemberg Mosbach Neuburg-Schrobenhausen rural Bavaria Neuburg Neumarkt rural Bavaria Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz Neumünster urban Schleswig-Holstein  Neunkirchen rural Saarland Ottweiler Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim rural Bavaria Neustadt (Aisch) Neustadt an der Weinstraße urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Neustadt (Waldnaab) rural Bavaria Neustadt (Waldnaab) Neu-Ulm rural Bavaria Neu-Ulm Neuwied rural Rhineland-Palatinate Neuwied Nienburg rural Lower Saxony Nienburg Nordfriesland rural Schleswig-Holstein Husum Nordhausen rural Thuringia Nordhausen Nordsachsen rural Saxony Torgau Nordwestmecklenburg rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Wismar Northeim rural Lower Saxony Northeim Nuremberg (Nürnberg) urban Bavaria  Nürnberger Land rural Bavaria Lauf an der Pegnitz Oberallgäu rural Bavaria Sonthofen Oberbergischer Kreis rural North Rhine-Westphalia Gummersbach Oberhausen urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Oberhavel rural Brandenburg Oranienburg Oberspreewald-Lausitz rural Brandenburg Senftenberg Odenwaldkreis rural Hesse Erbach Oder-Spree rural Brandenburg Beeskow Offenbach rural Hesse Dietzenbach Offenbach am Main urban Hesse  Oldenburg rural Lower Saxony Wildeshausen Oldenburg urban Lower Saxony  Olpe rural North Rhine-Westphalia Olpe Ortenaukreis rural Baden-Württemberg Offenburg Osnabrück rural Lower Saxony Osnabrück Osnabrück urban Lower Saxony  Ostalbkreis rural Baden-Württemberg Aalen Ostallgäu rural Bavaria Marktoberdorf Osterholz rural Lower Saxony Osterholz-Scharmbeck Osterode rural Lower Saxony Osterode Ostholstein rural Schleswig-Holstein Eutin Ostprignitz-Ruppin rural Brandenburg Neuruppin Paderborn rural North Rhine-Westphalia Paderborn Passau rural Bavaria Passau Passau urban Bavaria  Peine rural Lower Saxony Peine Pfaffenhofen rural Bavaria Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm Pforzheim urban Baden-Württemberg  Pinneberg rural Schleswig-Holstein Pinneberg Pirmasens urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Plön rural Schleswig-Holstein Plön Potsdam urban Brandenburg  Potsdam-Mittelmark rural Brandenburg Belzig Prignitz rural Brandenburg Perleberg Rastatt rural Baden-Württemberg Rastatt Ravensburg rural Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg Recklinghausen rural North Rhine-Westphalia Recklinghausen Regen rural Bavaria Regen Regensburg rural Bavaria Regensburg Regensburg urban Bavaria  Rems-Murr rural Baden-Württemberg Waiblingen Remscheid urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Rendsburg-Eckernförde rural Schleswig-Holstein Rendsburg Reutlingen rural Baden-Württemberg Reutlingen Rhein-Erft-Kreis rural North Rhine-Westphalia Bergheim Rheingau-Taunus rural Hesse Bad Schwalbach Rhein-Hunsrück rural Rhineland-Palatinate Simmern Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis rural North Rhine-Westphalia Bergisch-Gladbach Rheinkreis Neuss rural North Rhine-Westphalia Neuss Rhein-Lahn rural Rhineland-Palatinate Bad Ems Rhein-Neckar rural Baden-Württemberg Heidelberg Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis rural Rhineland-Palatinate Ludwigshafen Rhein-Sieg rural North Rhine-Westphalia Siegburg Rhön-Grabfeld rural Bavaria Bad Neustadt Rosenheim rural Bavaria Rosenheim Rosenheim urban Bavaria  Rostock rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Güstrow Rostock urban Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  Rotenburg rural Lower Saxony Rotenburg Roth rural Bavaria Roth bei Nürnberg Rottal-Inn rural Bavaria Pfarrkirchen Rottweil rural Baden-Württemberg Rottweil Saale-Holzland rural Thuringia Eisenberg Saalekreis rural Saxony-Anhalt Merseburg Saale-Orla rural Thuringia Schleiz Saalfeld-Rudolstadt rural Thuringia Saalfeld Saarbrücken rural Saarland Saarbrücken Saarlouis rural Saarland Saarlouis Saarpfalz rural Saarland Homburg Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge rural Saxony Pirna Salzgitter urban Lower Saxony  Salzlandkreis rural Saxony-Anhalt Bernburg Sankt Wendel rural Saarland Sankt Wendel Schaumburg rural Lower Saxony Stadthagen Schleswig-Flensburg rural Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig Schmalkalden-Meiningen rural Thuringia Meiningen Schwabach urban Bavaria  Schwäbisch Hall rural Baden-Württemberg Schwäbisch Hall Schwalm-Eder rural Hesse Homberg Schwandorf rural Bavaria Schwandorf Schwarzwald-Baar rural Baden-Württemberg Villingen-Schwenningen Schweinfurt rural Bavaria Schweinfurt Schweinfurt urban Bavaria  Schwerin urban Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  Segeberg rural Schleswig-Holstein Bad Segeberg Siegen-Wittgenstein rural North Rhine-Westphalia Siegen Sigmaringen rural Baden-Württemberg Sigmaringen Soest rural North Rhine-Westphalia Soest Solingen urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Sömmerda rural Thuringia Sömmerda Sonneberg rural Thuringia Sonneberg Speyer urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Spree-Neiße rural Brandenburg Forst Stade rural Lower Saxony Stade Starnberg rural Bavaria Starnberg Steinburg rural Schleswig-Holstein Itzehoe Steinfurt rural North Rhine-Westphalia Steinfurt Stendal rural Saxony-Anhalt Stendal Stormarn rural Schleswig-Holstein Bad Oldesloe Straubing urban Bavaria  Straubing-Bogen rural Bavaria Straubing Stuttgart urban Baden-Württemberg  Südliche Weinstraße rural Rhineland-Palatinate Landau Südwestpfalz rural Rhineland-Palatinate Pirmasens Suhl urban Thuringia  Teltow-Fläming rural Brandenburg Luckenwalde Tirschenreuth rural Bavaria Tirschenreuth Traunstein rural Bavaria Traunstein Trier urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Trier-Saarburg rural Rhineland-Palatinate Trier Tübingen rural Baden-Württemberg Tübingen Tuttlingen rural Baden-Württemberg Tuttlingen Uckermark rural Brandenburg Prenzlau Uelzen rural Lower Saxony Uelzen Ulm urban Baden-Württemberg  Unna rural North Rhine-Westphalia Unna Unstrut-Hainich rural Thuringia Mühlhausen Unterallgäu rural Bavaria Mindelheim Vechta rural Lower Saxony Vechta Verden rural Lower Saxony Verden Viersen rural North Rhine-Westphalia Viersen Vogelsbergkreis rural Hesse Lauterbach Vogtlandkreis rural Saxony Plauen Vorpommern-Greifswald rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Greifswald Vorpommern-Rügen rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Stralsund Vulkaneifel rural Rhineland-Palatinate Daun Waldeck-Frankenberg rural Hesse Korbach Waldshut rural Baden-Württemberg Waldshut-Tiengen Warendorf rural North Rhine-Westphalia Warendorf Wartburgkreis rural Thuringia Eisenach Weiden in der Oberpfalz urban Bavaria  Weilheim-Schongau rural Bavaria Weilheim Weimar urban Thuringia  Weimarer Land rural Thuringia Apolda Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen rural Bavaria Weißenburg Werra-Meißner rural Hesse Eschwege Wesel rural North Rhine-Westphalia Wesel Wesermarsch rural Lower Saxony Brake Westerwaldkreis rural Rhineland-Palatinate Montabaur Wetteraukreis rural Hesse Friedberg Wiesbaden urban Hesse  Wilhelmshaven urban Lower Saxony  Wittenberg rural Saxony-Anhalt Wittenberg Wittmund rural Lower Saxony Wittmund Wolfenbüttel rural Lower Saxony Wolfenbüttel Wolfsburg urban Lower Saxony  Worms urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Wunsiedel rural Bavaria Wunsiedel Wuppertal urban North Rhine-Westphalia  Würzburg rural Bavaria Würzburg Würzburg urban Bavaria  Zollernalbkreis rural Baden-Württemberg Balingen Zweibrücken urban Rhineland-Palatinate  Zwickau rural Saxony Zwickau

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