Länder - Germany

Name: Länder - Germany
Creator: opendatasoft

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This dataset forms part of the geographical reference collection maintained by Opendatasoft and is used by various data-processing tools. It is derived from the Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) dataset published by Germany's Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), reflecting boundaries as of 2020. It covers Germany at the Länder (federal states) administrative level, providing geographic boundary data for each of the country's states. The dataset is useful for mapping, spatial analysis, and applications requiring standardized administrative divisions of Germany at the state level.This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. Processors and tools are using this data. They have been extracted from the Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) published by BKG, and contain data from 2020. This dataset covers Germany at the Länder (states) level....

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Data schema (8 fields)

Filterable via the API (6)

yearlan_codelan_namelan_area_codelan_typelan_name_long

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Field	Type	Description
geo_point_2dGeo Point	geo_point_2d	—
geo_shapeShape	geo_shape	—
year	date	—
lan_codeLand code	text	—
lan_nameLand name	text	—
lan_area_codeISO 3166-3 Area code	text	—
lan_typeType	text	—
lan_name_longLand name (long)	text	—

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1year: 2025 · lan_code: ["13"]

{
  "year": "2025",
  "lan_code": [
    "13"
  ],
  "lan_name": [
    "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern"
  ],
  "lan_type": "Land",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 53.75320600822798,
    "lon": 12.534597106097866
  },
  "lan_area_code": "DEU",
  "lan_name_long": [
    "Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern"
  ]
}

Record 2year: 2025 · lan_code: ["16"]

{
  "year": "2025",
  "lan_code": [
    "16"
  ],
  "lan_name": [
    "Thüringen"
  ],
  "lan_type": "Freistaat",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 50.90387300022924,
    "lon": 11.024867374655829
  },
  "lan_area_code": "DEU",
  "lan_name_long": [
    "Freistaat Thüringen"
  ]
}

Record 3year: 2025 · lan_code: ["06"]

{
  "year": "2025",
  "lan_code": [
    "06"
  ],
  "lan_name": [
    "Hessen"
  ],
  "lan_type": "Land",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 50.603248227547176,
    "lon": 9.031062468150475
  },
  "lan_area_code": "DEU",
  "lan_name_long": [
    "Land Hessen"
  ]
}

Record 4year: 2025 · lan_code: ["09"]

{
  "year": "2025",
  "lan_code": [
    "09"
  ],
  "lan_name": [
    "Bayern"
  ],
  "lan_type": "Freistaat",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 48.94758053075392,
    "lon": 11.419914035054274
  },
  "lan_area_code": "DEU",
  "lan_name_long": [
    "Freistaat Bayern"
  ]
}

Record 5year: 2025 · lan_code: ["04"]

{
  "year": "2025",
  "lan_code": [
    "04"
  ],
  "lan_name": [
    "Bremen"
  ],
  "lan_type": "Freie Hansestadt",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 53.19966774419495,
    "lon": 8.743444624532783
  },
  "lan_area_code": "DEU",
  "lan_name_long": [
    "Freie Hansestadt Bremen"
  ]
}

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Data licence Germany — attribution 2.0 (DL-DE-BY-2.0)Open

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per ipmeasured

observed 6 days ago

Dataset

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Records

Update cadence

Annual

declared upstream

Last upstream update

1 month ago

2026-07-31

Temporal coverage

2025 → ongoing

License

No license declared upstream.

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