List of districts of Germany

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

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