Regions in Germany

Germany is made up of 16 primary administrative regions. Have a closer look at the regions in Germany. Information on all primary administrative regions in Germany.

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Primary administrative regions in Germany

There are 16 regions in Germany in the primary administrative level.
Primary administrative regions in Germany
RegionNoPopulationCapitalCapital population
Berlin Land Berlin1.3,677,472Berlin Berlin3,426,354
Bremen Bremen2.680,130Bremen Bremen546,501
Saxony Saxony3.4,077,937Dresden Dresden556,227
North Rhine-Westphalia Nordrhein-Westfalen4.18,077,762Duesseldorf Düsseldorf620,523
Thuringia Thuringia5.2,120,237Erfurt Erfurt213,692
Hamburg Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg6.1,906,411Hamburg Hamburg1,845,229
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony7.8,003,421Hannover Hannover515,140
Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein8.2,920,850Kiel Kiel246,601
Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt9.2,169,253Magdeburg Magdeburg235,775
Rheinland-Pfalz Rheinland-Pfalz10.4,093,903Mainz Mainz217,123
Bavaria Bavaria11.13,124,737Munich Munich1,260,391
Brandenburg Brandenburg12.2,520,198Potsdam Potsdam182,112
Saarland Saarland13.990,509Saarbruecken Saarbrücken179,349
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania14.1,609,675Schwerin Schwerin96,641
Baden-Wurttemberg Baden-Württemberg15.11,111,496Stuttgart Stuttgart630,305
Hesse Hessen16.6,243,262Wiesbaden Wiesbaden278,609