Last modified: 2012-02-10 by german editorial team
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All entries not stated belong to a municipality (Gemeinde).
A city belongs either to a city being county-free or being part of a county. Here no difference is made.
A borough(Stadteil) is part of a city, while a village is part of a municipality not having the status of a city. The latter literally is translated as Dorf, but due to the fact that there is no longer a distinction between urban municipalities (Stadtgemeinden) and rural municipalities(Landgemeinden), nowadays the translation Ortsteil might be the better match.
In Northrhine-Westphalia the subcounties (Ämter) had been dissolved in the 1970ies. They had patially coats of arms but no proper flags.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Feb 2012
Data taken from a modified version of Stefan Schwoon's database