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.^{citation needed}

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	Berlin	city-state
DE-BR	Brandenburg	Brandenburg
DE-BW	Baden-Württemberg	Baden-Württemberg
DE-BY	Bavaria	Bavaria	Bayern
DE-HB	Bremen	Bremen	city-state
DE-HE	Hesse	Hesse	Hessen
DE-HH	Hamburg	Hamburg	city-state
DE-MV	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
DE-NI	Lower Saxony	Lower Saxony	Niedersachsen
DE-NW	North Rhine-Westphalia	North Rhine-Westphalia	Nordrhein-Westfalen
DE-RP	Rhineland-Palatinate	Rhineland-Palatinate	Rheinland-Pfalz
DE-SH	Schleswig-Holstein	Schleswig-Holstein
DE-SL	Saarland	Saarland
DE-SN	Saxony	Saxony	Sachsen
DE-ST	Saxony-Anhalt	Saxony-Anhalt	Sachsen-Anhalt
DE-TH	Thuringia	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).^{citation needed}

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.

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.