The country is divded into 23 administrative regions called Bezirk (districts). * Schleswig * Holstein * Ostfriesland (East Friesland) * Niederelbe (Lower Elbe) * Hannover * Westfallen * Rheinland * Rheinland-Ost (Rheinland-East) * Pfalz (Palatinate) * Hessen * Elsass-Lothringen * Baden * Württemberg * Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria) * Franken (Franconia) * Thüringen (Thuringia) * Sachsen (Saxony) * Anhalt * Brandenburg * Mecklenburg * Pommern (Pommerania) * Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia) * Thälmannland * Westpreußen * Ostpreußen * Podlachien