Map of Germany districts

This Germany political map example was created on the base of Wikimedia Commons file: Landkreise, Kreise und kreisfreie Städte in Deutschland 2011-09-04.svg. [commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landkreise,_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2011-09-04.svg] This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. [creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en] "A German district is an administrative subdivision known as Landkreis ("rural district"), except in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein where it is known simply as Kreis. Most major cities in Germany are not part of a rural district, but perform district-like functions on their own. In this context, those cities are referred to as Kreisfreie Stadt (literally "district-free town") or Stadtkreis ("urban district"). Rural districts are at an intermediate level of administration between the German states (Länder) and the municipal governments (Gemeinden). They correspond to level 3 administrative units of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 3)..." [Districts of Germany. Wikipedia] The thematic map example "Map of Germany districts" was designed using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Map of Germany solution from the Maps area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.