List of districts of Germany

Main article: Districts of Germany

The sixteen constituent states of Germany are divided into a total of 401 administrative Kreis or Landkreis; these consist of 294 rural districts^[1] (German: Landkreise or Kreise – the latter in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein only), and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or, in Baden-Württemberg only, Stadtkreise – cities that constitute districts in their own right).^[2][3]

List

District	Form	State	Capital
Aachen	Rural[4]	North Rhine-Westphalia	Aachen
Aachen	Urban[5]	North Rhine-Westphalia
Ahrweiler	Rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Aichach-Friedberg	Rural	Bavaria	Aichach
Alb-Donau-Kreis	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Ulm[6]
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[6]
Ammerland	Rural	Lower Saxony	Westerstede
Anhalt-Bitterfeld	Rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Köthen (Anhalt)
Ansbach	Rural	Bavaria	Ansbach[6]
Ansbach	Urban	Bavaria
Aschaffenburg	Rural	Bavaria	Aschaffenburg[6]
Aschaffenburg	Urban	Bavaria
Augsburg	Rural	Bavaria	Augsburg[6]
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[6]
Bamberg	Urban	Bavaria
Barnim	Rural	Brandenburg	Eberswalde
Bautzen	Rural	Saxony	Bautzen
Bayreuth	Rural	Bavaria	Bayreuth[6]
Bayreuth	Urban	Bavaria
Berchtesgadener Land	Rural	Bavaria	Bad Reichenhall
Bergstraße	Rural	Hesse	Heppenheim
Berlin	Urban[7]	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[6]
Bremen	Urban[8]	Bremen
Bremerhaven	Urban[8]	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[6]
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[6]
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
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
Enzkreis	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Pforzheim[6]
Erding	Rural	Bavaria	Erding
Erfurt	Urban	Thuringia
Erlangen	Urban	Bavaria
Erlangen-Höchstadt	Rural	Bavaria	Erlangen[6]
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[5]	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[7]	Hamburg
Hameln-Pyrmont (Hameln-Pyrmont)	Rural	Lower Saxony	Hamelin (Hameln)
Hamm	Urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Hanover (Hannover)	Rural[4]	Lower Saxony	Hanover (Hannover)
Hanover	Urban[5]	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[6]
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
Hochsauerlandkreis	Rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Meschede
Hochtaunuskreis	Rural	Hesse	Bad Homburg
Hof	Rural	Bavaria	Hof[6]
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[6]
Kaiserslautern	Urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Karlsruhe	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Karlsruhe[6]
Karlsruhe	Urban	Baden-Württemberg
Kassel	Rural	Hesse	Kassel[6]
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-Kreis	Rural	Hesse	Wetzlar
Landau	Urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Landsberg	Rural	Bavaria	Landsberg
Landshut	Rural	Bavaria	Landshut[6]
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-Kreis	Rural	Hesse	Gelnhausen
Main-Spessart	Rural	Bavaria	Karlstadt am Main
Main-Tauber-Kreis	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Tauberbischofsheim
Main-Taunus-Kreis	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[6]
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[6] (München)
Munich	Urban	Bavaria
Münster	Urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis	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 an der Waldnaab	Rural	Bavaria	Neustadt an der 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[6]
Osnabrück	Urban	Lower Saxony
Ostalbkreis	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Aalen
Ostallgäu	Rural	Bavaria	Marktoberdorf
Osterholz	Rural	Lower Saxony	Osterholz-Scharmbeck
Ostholstein	Rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Eutin
Ostprignitz-Ruppin	Rural	Brandenburg	Neuruppin
Paderborn	Rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Paderborn
Passau	Rural	Bavaria	Passau[6]
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	Bad 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[6]
Regensburg	Urban	Bavaria
Rems-Murr-Kreis	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-Kreis	Rural	Hesse	Bad Schwalbach
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis	Rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Simmern
Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis	Rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Bergisch Gladbach
Rhein-Kreis Neuss	Rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Neuss
Rhein-Lahn-Kreis	Rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bad Ems
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Heidelberg[6]
Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis	Rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Ludwigshafen[6]
Rhein-Sieg-Kreis	Rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Siegburg
Rhön-Grabfeld	Rural	Bavaria	Bad Neustadt
Rosenheim	Rural	Bavaria	Rosenheim[6]
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-Kreis	Rural	Thuringia	Eisenberg
Saalekreis	Rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Merseburg
Saale-Orla-Kreis	Rural	Thuringia	Schleiz
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt	Rural	Thuringia	Saalfeld
Saarbrücken	Rural[4]	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-Kreis	Rural	Hesse	Homberg
Schwandorf	Rural	Bavaria	Schwandorf
Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Villingen-Schwenningen
Schweinfurt	Rural	Bavaria	Schweinfurt[6]
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[6]
Stuttgart	Urban	Baden-Württemberg
Südliche Weinstraße	Rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Landau[6]
Südwestpfalz	Rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Pirmasens[6]
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[6]
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-Kreis	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-Kreis	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[6]
Würzburg	Urban	Bavaria
Zollernalbkreis	Rural	Baden-Württemberg	Balingen
Zweibrücken	Urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Zwickau	Rural	Saxony	Zwickau

Historical

• Administrative divisions of East Germany
• Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany

See also

• Districts of Germany
• States of Germany
• List of rural districts with populations and area (in German)
• List of urban districts with populations and area (in German)