German state code (ISO 3166-2:DE)

ID de_state_code

Pattern of de_stateNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Two-letter code of a German state from ISO 3166-2:DE, such as BY (Bayern), NW (Nordrhein-Westfalen) or BE (Berlin), alone or after the country code as in DE-BY.

Pattern of: German state (Land) de_state
Categories: Geographic identifiers, Government related
Countries: Germany
Languages: Common to most languages
Quality: 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^(?:DE-)?(?:BB|BE|BW|BY|HB|HE|HH|MV|NI|NW|RP|SH|SL|SN|ST|TH)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
DE-BY	Bayern
NW	Nordrhein-Westfalen
DE-HH	Hamburg
DE-BR invalid	Draft code for Brandenburg, replaced by DE-BB in ISO 3166-2:1998
DE-NS invalid	Niedersachsen is NI

Translations

Language	Name	Description
German	Kürzel des Bundeslandes (ISO 3166-2:DE)
Russian	Код земли Германии (ISO 3166-2:DE)

Sources

wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:DE
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:DE

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Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/de_state_code
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