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The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. [a] Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration.
The current version of the standard defines codes for all 16 German states, referring to them using the German words Land (singular) and Länder (plural). Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is DE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Germany; the second part is two letters derived from the name of the Land.
The new states of Germany (German: die neuen Länder / die neuen Bundesländer) are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 "old states" upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.
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News Portal of the German Embassy to the USA "History of Germany since 1945" (PDF). (1.28 MB) Facts and figures. CIA statistics; Facts about Germany — by the German Federal Foreign Office; Destatis.de — Federal Statistical Office Germany (in English) Travel. Germany travel guide from Wikivoyage; Germany Travel Info — by the German ...
Länder (singular Land) or Bundesländer (singular Bundesland) is the name for (federal) states in two German-speaking countries. It may more specifically refer to: States of Austria, the nine federal subdivisions of Austria; States of Germany, the 16 federal subdivisions of Germany
Landtag (state parliament) of the state of Baden-Württemberg. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany divides authority between the federal government and the states (German: "Länder"), with the general principle governing relations articulated in Article 30: "Except as otherwise provided or permitted by this Basic Law, the exercise of state powers and the discharge of state ...
The Elbe with a German section of 727 km (452 mi) (also drains into the North Sea); and The Danube ( Donau ) with a German length of 687 km (427 mi). Further important rivers include the Saale and the Main in central Germany, the Neckar in the southwest, the Weser in the North and the Oder at the eastern border.