The official municipality key (AGS), in former times also official municipality characteristic number (GKZ) or municipality code number, is a number sequence for the identification of politically independent municipalities or municipality-free areas.

Other nomenclatures for the demarcation of areas are e.g. the postal zip code or the NUTS code. In marketing also Nielsengebiete are used.

Germany

It serves above all statistic purposes and in Germany by the statistic offices of the individual Lands of the Federal Republic is uniformly assigned.

The municipality key is to be indicated e.g. for the change of residence on the notice of departure and/or registration. It becomes however ith D. R. registered from the respective residents' registration office in the city hall.

Structure

The municipality key consists of altogether 8 numbers, which sit down together as follows:

The first two numbers designate the Land of the Federal Republic, 3. Number designates the governmental district (with countries without governmental districts here a 0 stands except with Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxonia-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, which dissolved its governmental districts only in the last years), the 4. and 5. The urban area (circle-free city) and/or the district (circle) and the 6 designates number. , 7. and 8. The municipality or a municipality-free area marks number.

Examples:

08 1 11 000 = Stuttgart

• 08 Baden-Wuerttemberg
• 1 governmental district Stuttgart
• 11 urban area Stuttgart
• 000 (Stuttgart receives as urban area no further municipality keys)

15 3 52 002 = ashtray lives

• 15 Saxonia-Anhalt
• 3 governmental district Magdeburg
• 52 district Aschersleben Stassfurt
• 002 city ashtray life

12 0 64 340 = new hard mountain

• 12 Brandenburg
• 0 (in Brandenburg there is not the administrative unit governmental district)
• 64 district Oderland
• 340 municipality new hard mountain

Lands of the Federal Republic

The counting takes place from the north to the south (No. 01-09), in chronological affiliation to the Federal Republic of Germany (No. 10) and alphabetical order (No. 11-16)

• 01 Schleswig-Holstein
• 02 free ones and Hanseatic city Hamburg
• 03 Lower Saxony
• 04 free Hanseatic city Bremen
• 05 North Rhine-Westphalia
• 06 Hessen
• 07 Rhineland-Palatinate
• 08 Baden-Wuerttemberg
• 09 Bavaria
• 10 Saarland
• 11 Berlin
• 12 Brandenburg
• 13 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• 14 Saxonia
• 15 Saxonia-Anhalt
• 16 Thuringia

Related links

• Federal Statistical Office Germany - search in the country wide municipality listing over "„municipality names "“or "„municipality keys "“with statistic data to population and surface.

• Municipality and of the Land of the Federal Republic Brandenburg.

Austria

Structure

The municipality key consists of altogether 5 numbers, which sit down together as follows:

The first number designates the Land of the Federal Republic (in alphabetical order), the 2. and 3. The district and the 4 designates number. and 5. Number designate the municipality.

Examples:

3 25 21 = Rappottenstein

• 3 Lower Austria
• 25 district Zwettl
• 21 municipality Rappottenstein

9 07 01 = Vienna - new building

• 9 Vienna
• 07 new building (7. District)
• 01 -

Lands of the Federal Republic

• 1 castle country
• 2
• 3 Lower Austria
• 4 upper Austria
• 5 Salzburg
• 6 Steiermark
• 7 Tirol
• 8 Vorarlberg
• 9 Vienna

Related links

• http://www.statistik.at/blickgem/index.jsp - city listing with municipality key

Switzerland

Swiss the counterpart to the municipality key is the municipality number.

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