ISO 3166-2:DE is the entry for Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1...

, part of the ISO 3166

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization . It defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions . The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation...

 standard

Standardization

Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....

 published by the International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

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 (ISO), which defines code

Code

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation , not necessarily of the same type....

s for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

s or states) of all countries

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 coded in ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names...

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

States of Germany

Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...

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Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is DE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

 code of Germany. The second part is two letters. The codes for Bremen

Bremen (state)

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is the smallest of Germany's 16 states. A more informal name, but used in some official contexts, is Land Bremen .-Geography:...

 (DE-HB) and Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 (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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Code	Subdivision name
DE-BW	Baden-Württemberg
DE-BY
DE-BE	Berlin
DE-BB	Brandenburg
DE-HB	Bremen (state)
DE-HH	Hamburg
DE-HE
DE-MV	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
DE-NI
DE-NW
DE-RP
DE-SL	Saarland
DE-SN
DE-ST
DE-SH	Schleswig-Holstein
DE-TH

See also

• Administrative divisions of Germany
  Administrative divisions of Germany
  Subdivisions of Germany - overview....
  
  
• FIPS region codes of Germany
• NUTS codes of Germany
  NUTS of Germany
  In the NUTS codes of Germany , the three levels are:-DE1 :In the NUTS codes of Germany , the three levels are:-DE1 :...
  
  

External links

• States of Germany, Statoids.com