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, legally, 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	Mayor
I	Mitte	Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding	39.74	332,100	Joachim Zeller (CDU)
II	Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg	Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg	20.16	254,600	Cornelia Reinauer (PDS)
III	Pankow	Prenzlauer Berg, Weißensee, Pankow	103.07	346,100	Burkhard Kleinert (PDS)
IV	Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf	Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf	64.72	315,600	Monika Thiemen (SPD)
V	Spandau	Spandau (unchanged)	91.91	226,100	Konrad Birkholz (CDU)
VI	Steglitz-Zehlendorf	Steglitz, Zehlendorf	102.50	288,300	Herbert Weber (CDU)
VII	Tempelhof-Schöneberg	Tempelhof, Schöneberg	53.09	336,600	Ekkehard Band (SPD)
VIII	Neukölln	Neukölln (unchanged)	44.93	307,400	Heinz Buschkowsky (SPD)
IX	Treptow-Köpenick	Treptow, Köpenick	168.43	233,100	Klaus Ulbricht (SPD)
X	Marzahn-Hellersdorf	Marzahn, Hellersdorf	61.74	255,500	Uwe Klett (PDS)
XI	Lichtenberg	Lichtenberg, Hohenschönhausen	52.29	260,200	Christina Emmrich (PDS)
XII	Reinickendorf	Reinickendorf (unchanged)	89.45	246,000	Marlies Wanjura (CDU)

(all data as of 2003)