---
id: "de_state"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["DE"]
langs: ["de", "en"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/de_state"
---

# German state (Land) (`de_state`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name of one of the 16 states (Länder) of Germany, such as Bayern, Nordrhein-Westfalen or Berlin, in German or English (Bavaria).

- Parent datatype: `admin_area_1`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: Germany (DE)
- Languages: German (de), English (en)
- Classification: categorical
- Patterns: `de_state_code`

## Examples

- `Bayern`
- `Nordrhein-Westfalen`
- `Bavaria` — Bayern, in English

## Mappings

- fta: `STATE_PROVINCE.STATE_NAME_DE`
- schema_org: `addressRegion`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- de: Bundesland
- ru: Земля Германии

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/de_state.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/DE/geo/de_state.yaml>