Boroughs of Berlin

Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs (Bezirke in German), which are administrative units with political rights comparable to incorporated communities in the rest of Germany (although they are not separate legal entities from the city).

Effective January 1, 2001, the Berlin borough reform reduced the number of Berlin's boroughs from 23 to 12 in order to cut down administration costs. This was achieved by combining several of the old boroughs.

In detail, the old and the new boroughs relate as follows:

	New borough name	Old borough names	Area in km²	Population
I	Mitte	Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding	39.74	320,700
II	Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg	Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg	20.16	255,200
III	Pankow	Prenzlauer Berg, Weißensee, Pankow	103.07	347,100
IV	Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf	Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf	64.72	315,200
V	Spandau	Spandau (unchanged)	91.91	226,100
VI	Steglitz-Zehlendorf	Steglitz, Zehlendorf	102.50	288,300
VII	Tempelhof-Schöneberg	Tempelhof, Schöneberg	53.09	336,000
VIII	Neukölln	Neukölln (unchanged)	44.93	307,400
IX	Treptow-Köpenick	Treptow, Köpenick	168.43	233,700
X	Marzahn-Hellersdorf	Marzahn, Hellersdorf	61.74	254,000
XI	Lichtenberg	Lichtenberg, Hohenschönhausen	52.29	260,200
XII	Reinickendorf	Reinickendorf (unchanged)	89.45	245,900

(all data as of 2003)