The part of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Germany provides codes for the names of the 16 federal states of Germany (Bundesländer).

Note: These ISO geocodes might be trademarked.

The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code DE for Germany (Deutschland); the second part is two-digit-alphabetic.

Codes

code	name	name english	note
DE-BE		Berlin	city-state
DE-BR		Brandenburg
DE-BW		Baden-Württemberg
DE-BY		Bavaria	Bayern
DE-HB		Bremen	city-state
DE-HE		Hesse	Hessen
DE-HH		Hamburg	city-state
DE-MV		Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
DE-NI		Lower Saxony	Niedersachsen
DE-NW		North Rhine-Westphalia	Nordrhein-Westfalen
DE-RP		Rhineland-Palatinate	Rheinland-Pfalz
DE-SH		Schleswig-Holstein
DE-SL		Saarland
DE-SN		Saxony	Sachsen
DE-ST		Saxony-Anhalt	Sachsen-Anhalt
DE-TH		Thuringia	Thüringen

Notes

The codes for Bremen and Hamburg incorporate an "H" for Hansestadt as their first letter. The codes for Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt avoid the more intuitive but historically tainted NS (for Nationalsozialismus) and SA (for Sturmabteilung).

Deviant codes or abbreviations have been used traditionally especially for the (western) compound-named states and they remain in common use today. They often have three letters instead of two.

B	Berlin
BB	Brandenburg (and failed proposal Berlin-Brandenburg)
MVP	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
NDS	Lower Saxony
NRW	North Rhine-Westphalia
RLP	Rhineland-Palatinate

See also

• ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
• ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the internet.