A Regierungsbezirk (German pronunciation: [ʁeˈɡiːʁʊŋsbəˌtsɪʁk]) means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany. Four of sixteen Bundesländer (states of Germany) are split ...
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into Regierungsbezirke. Beneath these are rural and urban districts.
Saxony has Direktionsbezirke (directorate districts) with more responsibilities shifted from the state parliament.
The cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin – the city states – have a different system.
Regierungsbezirke serve as regional mid-level local government units in four of Germany´s sixteen federal states: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. Each of the nineteen Regierungsbezirke features a non-legislative governing body called a Regierungspräsidium (governing presidium) or Bezirksregierung (district government) headed by a Regierungspräsident (governing president), concerned mostly with administrative decisions on a local level for districts within its jurisdiction.
