Municipalities[1] (German: Gemeinden, singular Gemeinde) are the lowest level of official territorial division in Germany.
Municipalities of Germany Deutsche Gemeinden (German) | |
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Category | Municipality |
Location | Germany |
Found in | District (Kreis) Regierungsbezirk |
Populations | 11 (Gröde) - 3,600,000 (Berlin) |
![The vertical (federal) separation of powers across the federal government (white), the states (yellow), and the municipalities (brown).](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Administrative_divisions_of_Germany.svg/300px-Administrative_divisions_of_Germany.svg.png)
As of January 2021, there are 10,790 municipalities in Germany, of which 2,054 are cities.
Municipalities per federal state
Status as of December 2018.
Federal state | Municipalities[2] | Municipalities with town status[2] | Municipalities that are urban districts[2] | Average no. of inhabitants[2][3] | Average area (km2)[2] | Lists (Cities, Towns, Municipalities) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baden-Württemberg | 1,101 | 313 | 9 | 10,012 | 32.5 | C, T, M |
Bavaria | 2,056 | 317 | 25 | 6,321 | 34.3 | C, T, M |
Berlin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3,613,000 | 891.0 | Berlin |
Brandenburg | 417 | 113 | 4 | 6,005 | 71.1 | C, T, M |
Bremen | 2 | 2 | 2 | 340,500 | 209.5 | Bremen, Bremerhaven |
Hamburg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1,831,000 | 755.2 | Hamburg |
Hesse | 423 | 191 | 5 | 14,759 | 49.9 | C, T, M |
Lower Saxony | 945 | 159 | 8 | 8,426 | 50.5 | C, T, M |
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 750 | 84 | 2 | 2,148 | 31.1 | C, T, M |
North Rhine-Westphalia | 396 | 271 | 22 | 45,232 | 86.1 | C, T, M |
Rhineland-Palatinate | 2,304 | 129 | 12 | 1,768 | 8.6 | C, T, M |
Saarland | 52 | 17 | 0 | 19,115 | 49.4 | C, T, M |
Saxony | 421 | 169 | 3 | 9,694 | 43.8 | C, T, M |
Saxony-Anhalt | 218 | 104 | 3 | 10,197 | 93.8 | C, T, M |
Schleswig-Holstein | 1,106 | 63 | 4 | 2,613 | 14.3 | C, T, M |
Thuringia | 821 | 124 | 6 | 2,620 | 19.7 | C, T, M |
Germany | 11,014 | 2,058 | 107 | 7,517 | 32.5 | C, T, M |
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