List of districts of Germany

Germany is divided into 402 administrative districts. These consist of 295 rural districts (Landkreise),^[1] listed fully here, and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise) - cities which constitute a district in their own right.

District	Type (rural/urban)	State	Capital
Aachen	rural[2]	North Rhine-Westphalia	Aachen
Aachen	urban[3]	North Rhine-Westphalia
Ahrweiler	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Aichach-Friedberg	rural	Bavaria	Aichach
Alb-Donau	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Ulm[4]
Altenburger Land	rural	Thuringia	Altenburg
Altenkirchen	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Altenkirchen
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Salzwedel
Altötting	rural	Bavaria	Altötting
Alzey-Worms	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Alzey
Amberg	urban	Bavaria
Amberg-Sulzbach	rural	Bavaria	Amberg[4]
Ammerland	rural	Lower Saxony	Westerstede
Anhalt-Bitterfeld	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Köthen (Anhalt)
Ansbach	rural	Bavaria	Ansbach[4]
Ansbach	urban	Bavaria
Aschaffenburg	rural	Bavaria	Aschaffenburg[4]
Aschaffenburg	urban	Bavaria
Augsburg	rural	Bavaria	Augsburg[4]
Augsburg	urban	Bavaria
Aurich	rural	Lower Saxony	Aurich
Bad Dürkheim	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bad Dürkheim
Bad Kissingen	rural	Bavaria	Bad Kissingen
Bad Kreuznach	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bad Kreuznach
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen	rural	Bavaria	Bad Tölz
Baden-Baden	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Bamberg	rural	Bavaria	Bamberg[4]
Bamberg	urban	Bavaria
Barnim	rural	Brandenburg	Eberswalde
Bautzen	rural	Saxony	Bautzen
Bayreuth	rural	Bavaria	Bayreuth[4]
Bayreuth	urban	Bavaria
Berchtesgadener Land	rural	Bavaria	Bad Reichenhall
Bergstraße	rural	Hesse	Heppenheim
Berlin	urban[3]	Berlin
Bernkastel-Wittlich	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Wittlich
Biberach	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Biberach
Bielefeld	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Birkenfeld	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Birkenfeld
Böblingen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Böblingen
Bochum	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Bodenseekreis	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Friedrichshafen
Bonn	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Börde	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Haldensleben
Borken	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Borken
Bottrop	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Brandenburg an der Havel	urban	Brandenburg
Braunschweig	urban	Lower Saxony
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Freiburg[4]
Bremen	urban[3]	Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Bremerhaven	urban[3]	Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Burgenlandkreis	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Naumburg
Calw	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Calw
Celle	rural	Lower Saxony	Celle
Cham	rural	Bavaria	Cham
Chemnitz	urban	Saxony
Cleves (Kleve)	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Cleves (Kleve)
Cloppenburg	rural	Lower Saxony	Cloppenburg
Coburg	rural	Bavaria	Coburg[4]
Coburg	urban	Bavaria
Cochem-Zell	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Cochem
Coesfeld	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Coesfeld
Cologne (Köln)	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Cottbus	urban	Brandenburg
Cuxhaven	rural	Lower Saxony	Cuxhaven
Dachau	rural	Bavaria	Dachau
Dahme-Spreewald	rural	Brandenburg	Lübben
Darmstadt	urban	Hesse
Darmstadt-Dieburg	rural	Hesse	Darmstadt[4]
Deggendorf	rural	Bavaria	Deggendorf
Delmenhorst	urban	Lower Saxony
Dessau-Roßlau	urban	Saxony-Anhalt
Diepholz	rural	Lower Saxony	Diepholz
Dillingen	rural	Bavaria	Dillingen
Dingolfing-Landau	rural	Bavaria	Dingolfing
Dithmarschen	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Heide
Donau-Ries	rural	Bavaria	Donauwörth
Donnersbergkreis	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Kirchheimbolanden
Dortmund	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Dresden	urban	Saxony
Duisburg	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Düren	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Düren
Düsseldorf	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Ebersberg	rural	Bavaria	Ebersberg
Eichsfeld	rural	Thuringia	Heilbad Heiligenstadt
Eichstätt	rural	Bavaria	Eichstätt
Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bitburg
Eisenach	urban	Thuringia
Elbe-Elster	rural	Brandenburg	Herzberg
Emden	urban	Lower Saxony
Emmendingen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Emmendingen
Emsland	rural	Lower Saxony	Meppen
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Schwelm
Enz	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Pforzheim[4]
Erding	rural	Bavaria	Erding
Erfurt	urban	Thuringia
Erlangen	urban	Bavaria
Erlangen-Höchstadt	rural	Bavaria	Erlangen[4]
Erzgebirgskreis	rural	Saxony	Annaberg-Buchholz
Essen	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Esslingen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Esslingen am Neckar
Euskirchen	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Euskirchen
Flensburg	urban	Schleswig-Holstein
Forchheim	rural	Bavaria	Forchheim
Frankenthal	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Frankfurt am Main	urban	Hesse
Frankfurt an der Oder	urban	Brandenburg
Freiburg im Breisgau	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Freising	rural	Bavaria	Freising
Freudenstadt	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Freudenstadt
Freyung-Grafenau	rural	Bavaria	Freyung
Friesland	rural	Lower Saxony	Jever
Fulda	rural	Hesse	Fulda
Fürstenfeldbruck	rural	Bavaria	Fürstenfeldbruck
Fürth	rural	Bavaria	Zirndorf
Fürth	urban	Bavaria
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	rural	Bavaria	Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Gera	urban	Thuringia
Germersheim	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Germersheim
Gießen	rural	Hesse	Gießen
Gifhorn	rural	Lower Saxony	Gifhorn
Göppingen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Göppingen
Görlitz	rural	Saxony	Görlitz
Goslar	rural	Lower Saxony	Goslar
Gotha	rural	Thuringia	Gotha
Göttingen	rural	Lower Saxony	Göttingen
Göttingen	urban[3]	Lower Saxony
Grafschaft Bentheim	rural	Lower Saxony	Nordhorn
Greiz	rural	Thuringia	Greiz
Groß-Gerau	rural	Hesse	Groß-Gerau
Günzburg	rural	Bavaria	Günzburg
Gütersloh	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Gütersloh
Hagen	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Halle	urban	Saxony-Anhalt
Hamburg	urban[3]	Hamburg
Hamelin-Pyrmont (Hameln-Pyrmont)	rural	Lower Saxony	Hamelin (Hameln)
Hamm	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Hanover (Hannover)	rural[2]	Lower Saxony	Hanover (Hannover)
Hanover	urban[3]	Lower Saxony
Harburg	rural	Lower Saxony	Winsen
Harz	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Halberstadt
Haßberge	rural	Bavaria	Haßfurt
Havelland	rural	Brandenburg	Rathenow
Heidekreis	rural	Lower Saxony	Bad Fallingbostel
Heidelberg	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Heidenheim	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Heidenheim
Heilbronn	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Heilbronn[4]
Heilbronn	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Heinsberg	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Heinsberg
Helmstedt	rural	Lower Saxony	Helmstedt
Herford	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Herford
Herne	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Hersfeld-Rotenburg	rural	Hesse	Bad Hersfeld
Herzogtum Lauenburg	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Ratzeburg
Hildburghausen	rural	Thuringia	Hildburghausen
Hildesheim	rural	Lower Saxony	Hildesheim
Hochsauerland	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Meschede
Hochtaunuskreis	rural	Hesse	Bad Homburg
Hof	rural	Bavaria	Hof
Hof	urban	Bavaria
Hohenlohe	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Künzelsau
Holzminden	rural	Lower Saxony	Holzminden
Höxter	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Höxter
Ilm-Kreis	rural	Thuringia	Arnstadt
Ingolstadt	urban	Bavaria
Jena	urban	Thuringia
Jerichower Land	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Burg
Kaiserslautern	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Kaiserslautern[4]
Kaiserslautern	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Karlsruhe	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Karlsruhe[4]
Karlsruhe	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Kassel	rural	Hesse	Kassel[4]
Kassel	urban	Hesse
Kaufbeuren	urban	Bavaria
Kelheim	rural	Bavaria	Kelheim
Kempten	urban	Bavaria
Kiel	urban	Schleswig-Holstein
Kitzingen	rural	Bavaria	Kitzingen
Koblenz	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Konstanz	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Konstanz
Krefeld	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Kronach	rural	Bavaria	Kronach
Kulmbach	rural	Bavaria	Kulmbach
Kusel	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Kusel
Kyffhäuserkreis	rural	Thuringia	Sondershausen
Lahn-Dill	rural	Hesse	Wetzlar
Landau	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Landsberg	rural	Bavaria	Landsberg
Landshut	rural	Bavaria	Landshut[4]
Landshut	urban	Bavaria
Leer	rural	Lower Saxony	Leer
Leipzig	rural	Saxony	Borna
Leipzig	urban	Saxony
Leverkusen	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Lichtenfels	rural	Bavaria	Lichtenfels
Limburg-Weilburg	rural	Hesse	Limburg
Lindau	rural	Bavaria	Lindau
Lippe	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Detmold
Lörrach	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Lörrach
Lübeck	urban	Schleswig-Holstein
Lüchow-Dannenberg	rural	Lower Saxony	Lüchow
Ludwigsburg	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Ludwigsburg
Ludwigshafen	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Ludwigslust-Parchim	rural	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Parchim
Lüneburg	rural	Lower Saxony	Lüneburg
Magdeburg	urban	Saxony-Anhalt
Main-Kinzig	rural	Hesse	Gelnhausen
Main-Spessart	rural	Bavaria	Karlstadt am Main
Main-Tauber	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Tauberbischofsheim
Main-Taunus	rural	Hesse	Hofheim
Mainz	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Mainz-Bingen	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Ingelheim
Mannheim	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Mansfeld-Südharz	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Sangerhausen
Marburg-Biedenkopf	rural	Hesse	Marburg
Märkischer Kreis	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Lüdenscheid
Märkisch-Oderland	rural	Brandenburg	Seelow
Mayen-Koblenz	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Koblenz[4]
Mecklenburgische Seenplatte	rural	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Neubrandenburg
Meißen	rural	Saxony	Meißen
Memmingen	urban	Bavaria
Merzig-Wadern	rural	Saarland	Merzig
Mettmann	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Mettmann
Miesbach	rural	Bavaria	Miesbach
Miltenberg	rural	Bavaria	Miltenberg
Minden-Lübbecke	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Minden
Mittelsachsen	rural	Saxony	Freiberg
Mönchengladbach	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Mühldorf	rural	Bavaria	Mühldorf
Mülheim an der Ruhr	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Munich (München)	rural	Bavaria	Munich[4] (München)
Munich	urban	Bavaria
Münster	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Neckar-Odenwald	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Mosbach
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen	rural	Bavaria	Neuburg
Neumarkt	rural	Bavaria	Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
Neumünster	urban	Schleswig-Holstein
Neunkirchen	rural	Saarland	Ottweiler
Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim	rural	Bavaria	Neustadt (Aisch)
Neustadt an der Weinstraße	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Neustadt (Waldnaab)	rural	Bavaria	Neustadt (Waldnaab)
Neu-Ulm	rural	Bavaria	Neu-Ulm
Neuwied	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Neuwied
Nienburg	rural	Lower Saxony	Nienburg
Nordfriesland	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Husum
Nordhausen	rural	Thuringia	Nordhausen
Nordsachsen	rural	Saxony	Torgau
Nordwestmecklenburg	rural	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Wismar
Northeim	rural	Lower Saxony	Northeim
Nuremberg (Nürnberg)	urban	Bavaria
Nürnberger Land	rural	Bavaria	Lauf an der Pegnitz
Oberallgäu	rural	Bavaria	Sonthofen
Oberbergischer Kreis	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Gummersbach
Oberhausen	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Oberhavel	rural	Brandenburg	Oranienburg
Oberspreewald-Lausitz	rural	Brandenburg	Senftenberg
Odenwaldkreis	rural	Hesse	Erbach
Oder-Spree	rural	Brandenburg	Beeskow
Offenbach	rural	Hesse	Dietzenbach
Offenbach am Main	urban	Hesse
Oldenburg	rural	Lower Saxony	Wildeshausen
Oldenburg	urban	Lower Saxony
Olpe	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Olpe
Ortenaukreis	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Offenburg
Osnabrück	rural	Lower Saxony	Osnabrück[4]
Osnabrück	urban	Lower Saxony
Ostalbkreis	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Aalen
Ostallgäu	rural	Bavaria	Marktoberdorf
Osterholz	rural	Lower Saxony	Osterholz-Scharmbeck
Osterode	rural	Lower Saxony	Osterode
Ostholstein	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Eutin
Ostprignitz-Ruppin	rural	Brandenburg	Neuruppin
Paderborn	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Paderborn
Passau	rural	Bavaria	Passau[4]
Passau	urban	Bavaria
Peine	rural	Lower Saxony	Peine
Pfaffenhofen	rural	Bavaria	Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm
Pforzheim	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Pinneberg	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Pinneberg
Pirmasens	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Plön	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Plön
Potsdam	urban	Brandenburg
Potsdam-Mittelmark	rural	Brandenburg	Belzig
Prignitz	rural	Brandenburg	Perleberg
Rastatt	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Rastatt
Ravensburg	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Ravensburg
Recklinghausen	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Recklinghausen
Regen	rural	Bavaria	Regen
Regensburg	rural	Bavaria	Regensburg[4]
Regensburg	urban	Bavaria
Rems-Murr	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Waiblingen
Remscheid	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Rendsburg-Eckernförde	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Rendsburg
Reutlingen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Reutlingen
Rhein-Erft-Kreis	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Bergheim
Rheingau-Taunus	rural	Hesse	Bad Schwalbach
Rhein-Hunsrück	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Simmern
Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Bergisch-Gladbach
Rheinkreis Neuss	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Neuss
Rhein-Lahn	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bad Ems
Rhein-Neckar	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Heidelberg[4]
Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Ludwigshafen[4]
Rhein-Sieg	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Siegburg
Rhön-Grabfeld	rural	Bavaria	Bad Neustadt
Rosenheim	rural	Bavaria	Rosenheim[4]
Rosenheim	urban	Bavaria
Rostock	rural	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Güstrow
Rostock	urban	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Rotenburg	rural	Lower Saxony	Rotenburg
Roth	rural	Bavaria	Roth bei Nürnberg
Rottal-Inn	rural	Bavaria	Pfarrkirchen
Rottweil	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Rottweil
Saale-Holzland	rural	Thuringia	Eisenberg
Saalekreis	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Merseburg
Saale-Orla	rural	Thuringia	Schleiz
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt	rural	Thuringia	Saalfeld
Saarbrücken	rural[2]	Saarland	Saarbrücken
Saarlouis	rural	Saarland	Saarlouis
Saarpfalz	rural	Saarland	Homburg
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge	rural	Saxony	Pirna
Salzgitter	urban	Lower Saxony
Salzlandkreis	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Bernburg
Sankt Wendel	rural	Saarland	Sankt Wendel
Schaumburg	rural	Lower Saxony	Stadthagen
Schleswig-Flensburg	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Schleswig
Schmalkalden-Meiningen	rural	Thuringia	Meiningen
Schwabach	urban	Bavaria
Schwäbisch Hall	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Schwäbisch Hall
Schwalm-Eder	rural	Hesse	Homberg
Schwandorf	rural	Bavaria	Schwandorf
Schwarzwald-Baar	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Villingen-Schwenningen
Schweinfurt	rural	Bavaria	Schweinfurt[4]
Schweinfurt	urban	Bavaria
Schwerin	urban	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Segeberg	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Bad Segeberg
Siegen-Wittgenstein	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Siegen
Sigmaringen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Sigmaringen
Soest	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Soest
Solingen	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Sömmerda	rural	Thuringia	Sömmerda
Sonneberg	rural	Thuringia	Sonneberg
Speyer	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Spree-Neiße	rural	Brandenburg	Forst
Stade	rural	Lower Saxony	Stade
Starnberg	rural	Bavaria	Starnberg
Steinburg	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Itzehoe
Steinfurt	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Steinfurt
Stendal	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Stendal
Stormarn	rural	Schleswig-Holstein	Bad Oldesloe
Straubing	urban	Bavaria
Straubing-Bogen	rural	Bavaria	Straubing[4]
Stuttgart	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Südliche Weinstraße	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Landau[4]
Südwestpfalz	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Pirmasens[4]
Suhl	urban	Thuringia
Teltow-Fläming	rural	Brandenburg	Luckenwalde
Tirschenreuth	rural	Bavaria	Tirschenreuth
Traunstein	rural	Bavaria	Traunstein
Trier	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Trier-Saarburg	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Trier[4]
Tübingen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Tübingen
Tuttlingen	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Tuttlingen
Uckermark	rural	Brandenburg	Prenzlau
Uelzen	rural	Lower Saxony	Uelzen
Ulm	urban	Baden-Württemberg
Unna	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Unna
Unstrut-Hainich	rural	Thuringia	Mühlhausen
Unterallgäu	rural	Bavaria	Mindelheim
Vechta	rural	Lower Saxony	Vechta
Verden	rural	Lower Saxony	Verden
Viersen	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Viersen
Vogelsbergkreis	rural	Hesse	Lauterbach
Vogtlandkreis	rural	Saxony	Plauen
Vorpommern-Greifswald	rural	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Greifswald
Vorpommern-Rügen	rural	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Stralsund
Vulkaneifel	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Daun
Waldeck-Frankenberg	rural	Hesse	Korbach
Waldshut	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Waldshut-Tiengen
Warendorf	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Warendorf
Wartburgkreis	rural	Thuringia	Eisenach
Weiden in der Oberpfalz	urban	Bavaria
Weilheim-Schongau	rural	Bavaria	Weilheim
Weimar	urban	Thuringia
Weimarer Land	rural	Thuringia	Apolda
Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen	rural	Bavaria	Weißenburg
Werra-Meißner	rural	Hesse	Eschwege
Wesel	rural	North Rhine-Westphalia	Wesel
Wesermarsch	rural	Lower Saxony	Brake
Westerwaldkreis	rural	Rhineland-Palatinate	Montabaur
Wetteraukreis	rural	Hesse	Friedberg
Wiesbaden	urban	Hesse
Wilhelmshaven	urban	Lower Saxony
Wittenberg	rural	Saxony-Anhalt	Wittenberg
Wittmund	rural	Lower Saxony	Wittmund
Wolfenbüttel	rural	Lower Saxony	Wolfenbüttel
Wolfsburg	urban	Lower Saxony
Worms	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Wunsiedel	rural	Bavaria	Wunsiedel
Wuppertal	urban	North Rhine-Westphalia
Würzburg	rural	Bavaria	Würzburg[4]
Würzburg	urban	Bavaria
Zollernalbkreis	rural	Baden-Württemberg	Balingen
Zweibrücken	urban	Rhineland-Palatinate
Zwickau	rural	Saxony	Zwickau