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Germany postal codes, places and regions
Browse postal-code records and administrative regions, with optional GeoNames Gazetteer enrichment.
Postal data availableGazetteer places available
- Place records
- 23,296
- Postal codes
- 10,813
- Named places
- 19,561
- Mapped records
- 23,296
- Shared codes
- 2,392
Snapshot-derived insight
How dense is this postal directory?
In the active ZipCodeGlobe postal snapshot, Germany contains 23,296 active place records across 10,813 distinct postal codes — about 2.15 place records per represented code. This describes dataset representation, not population or legal postal boundaries.
GeoNames country reference
Geographic context for Germany
Berlincapital
EURcurrency
49calling prefix
82,927,922countryInfo population field
GeoNames countryInfo postal format: #####. This is supporting reference metadata, not a postal-code record set.
Languages: de · Neighbour codes: CH,PL,NL,DK,BE,CZ,LU,FR,AT
GeoNames general Gazetteer
Major populated places
These are geographic place records, not postal-code records.
BerlinState of Berlin · population field 3,426,354HamburgHamburg · population field 1,973,896MunichBavaria · population field 1,505,005KölnNorth Rhine-Westphalia · population field 1,024,621Frankfurt am MainHesse · population field 650,000DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia · population field 618,685StuttgartBaden-Wurttemberg · population field 612,663EssenNorth Rhine-Westphalia · population field 593,085DortmundNorth Rhine-Westphalia · population field 588,462DresdenSaxony · population field 564,904BremenBremen · population field 546,501NurembergBavaria · population field 515,543
Postal regions
Baden-Württemberg1,559 codes · 2,407 recordsBavaria410 codes · 1,114 recordsBayern2,077 codes · 2,260 recordsBerlin194 codes · 194 recordsBrandenburg264 codes · 1,347 recordsBremen73 codes · 124 recordsHamburg229 codes · 661 recordsHessen831 codes · 1,296 recordsLand Berlin169 codes · 412 recordsLower Saxony188 codes · 451 recordsMecklenburg-Vorpommern196 codes · 1,015 recordsMecklenburg-Western Pomerania27 codes · 45 recordsNiedersachsen822 codes · 1,748 recordsNordrhein-Westfalen1,423 codes · 2,743 recordsRheinland-Pfalz750 codes · 2,693 recordsSaarland91 codes · 109 recordsSachsen404 codes · 689 recordsSachsen-Anhalt220 codes · 1,339 recordsSaxony89 codes · 106 recordsSaxony-Anhalt51 codes · 65 recordsSchleswig-Holstein517 codes · 1,373 recordsThüringen226 codes · 1,041 recordsThuringia37 codes · 63 records
Popular postal starting characters
Source: GeoNames postal-code snapshot checked 2026-08-18. Postal data © GeoNames.org, CC BY 4.0. Accuracy codes belong to the source and are not a ZipCodeGlobe verification claim.