Postcodes and regions of Germany

What are the postal codes of Germany? What are the postal code regions of Germany and which cities do they cover?

Germany, Turkey's largest export partner, holds an important place in transportation. One of the matters that exporters shipping to this region need to pay attention to is the postal codes within the region. Germany's postal codes, restructured in a holistic manner since 1993, are used in a numeric format with 5 digits. The postal codes are divided into regions from 0 to 9.

What are the states of Germany?

There are a total of 16 states in Germany. The states of Germany can be listed as; Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, and Thuringia.

What areas do Germany's postal code zones cover?

The regions of Germany, divided by postal codes, are as follows:

Bölge (Leitzone) 0

Yüzölçümü: 37.187 km²

Nüfus: 6.819.607

Kapsadığı yerler: Saksonya (Saxony), Saksonya-Anhalt ve Brandenburg bölgesinin güney bölümleri, Thuringgia bölgesinin doğu bölümü

Önemli şehirler: Dresden, Leipzig, Halle, Chemnitz, Cottbus, Jena

Region (Leitzone) 0

• Area: 37,187 km²
• Population: 6,819,607
• Areas covered: Saxony, parts of Saxony-Anhalt and southern Brandenburg, and the eastern part of Thuringia
• Major cities: Dresden, Leipzig, Halle, Chemnitz, Cottbus, Jena

Region (Leitzone) 2

• Area: 44.207 km²
• Population: 8.691.409
• Areas covered: Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, northern part of Lower Saxony, Bremen, small part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Major cities: Hamburg, Lübeck, Kiel, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Oldenburg

Region (Leitzone) 3

• Area: 45.488 km²
• Population: 9.012.212
• Areas covered: Southern part of Lower Saxony, eastern part of Westphalia, northern parts of Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt
• Major cities: Hanover, Bielefeld, Kassel, Fulda, Gießen, Göttingen, Brunswick, Magdeburg

Region (Leitzone) 4

• Area: 20.212 km²
• Population: 10.331.535
• Areas covered: Western parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, western part of Lower Saxony
• Major cities: Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, Wuppertal, Bielefeld, Münster, Mönchengladbach, Gelsenkirchen, Oberhausen, Osnabrück

Region (Leitzone) 5

• Area: 28.834 km²
• Population: 9.233.815
• Areas covered: Southwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, large part of Rhineland-Palatinate, small part of Hesse
• Major cities: Cologne, Bonn, Aachen, Mainz, Koblenz, Trier

Region (Leitzone) 6

• Area: 17.247 km²
• Population: 7.540.503
• Areas covered: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and southern Hesse, parts of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg
• Major cities: Frankfurt (Main), Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Saarbrücken, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Aschaffenburg

Region (Leitzone) 7

• Area: 27.864 km²
• Population: 8.715.898
• Areas covered: Most of Baden-Württemberg, parts of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Major cities: Stuttgart, Tubingen, Freiburg, Konstanz, Baden-Baden

Region (Leitzone) 8

• Area: 36.427 km²
• Population: 7.675.001
• Areas covered: Southern part of Bavaria, southeastern part of Baden-Württemberg
• Major cities: Munich, Rosenheim, Augsburg, Ulm, Ingolstadt

Region (Leitzone) 9

• Area: 47.803 km²
• Population: 7.163.416
• Areas covered: Northern part of Bavaria (Franconia), most of Thuringia, limited part of Baden-Württemberg
• Major cities: Nuremberg, Würzburg, Erfurt, Weimar, Eisenach, Bamberg, Bayreuth

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