ISO 3166-2: DE

The list of ISO-3166-2 codes for Germany contains the codes for the German countries .

The codes consist of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part gives the country code according to ISO 3166-1 (for Germany DE), the second the code for the member state (in Germany: federal state).

The current country code has not been updated since it was published in 1998.

The current codes are available on the ISO website under #iso: code: 3166: DE .

Map of Germany with the second part of the codes for the federal states according to ISO 3166-2

state	code
Baden-Württemberg	DE-BW
Bavaria	DE-BY
Berlin	DE-BE
Brandenburg	DE-BB
Bremen	DE-HB
Hamburg	DE-HH
Hesse	DE-HE
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	DE-MV
Lower Saxony	DE-NI
North Rhine-Westphalia	DE-NW
Rhineland-Palatinate	DE-RP
Saarland	DE-SL
Saxony	DE-SN
Saxony-Anhalt	DE-ST
Schleswig-Holstein	DE-SH
Thuringia	DE-TH

The code for Brandenburg was changed from "DE-BR" to "DE-BB" between the draft standard ISO / DIS 3166-2 and the final standard ISO 3166-2: 1998. The abbreviation “ND” is sometimes used for Lower Saxony, for example in the ELSTER project . The leading letter “H” in HB and HH stands for “ Hanseatic City ” as in the case of the license plate .

The codes are generally chosen so that they relate as clearly as possible to a specific federal state. DE-BA could have stood for Baden- (Württemberg) or Bavaria , DE-BR for Bremen , Brandenburg or Federal Republic , DE-SA for Saarland , Saxony or Saxony-Anhalt and DE-NS in addition to Lower Saxony also for National Socialism , i.e. for the " Third rich".

See also

• NUTS: DE (EU statistical regions)
• ISO 3166-2 , country code reference table
• ISO 3166-1 , reference table of country codes as used in domain names

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statoids: States of Germany (English)