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Delimitation of constituencies for the elections to the 17th German Bundestag

Map of constituencies

The map with geometric data on the constituencies of the present Bundestag election is available to you for download in various formats. Provided that the copyright notice1) below is adhered to, you may use the contents for your own purposes without restrictions.

File format
Picture format
Content 1)
Geometric data 2)
To be used for
PDF
DIN A1
generalised 5)
on-screen display
Postscript (EPS)
DIN A4
generalised 5)
further processing in layout programs
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
-
generalised 5)
further processing in layout programs
Enhanced Meta File (EMF)
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generalised 5)
further processing in text and layout programs
Shapefile 7)
(.zip)
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geometric data of constituencies
not generalised 6) (902 KB),
further processing in
cartography programs and geographic information systems
generalised 5) (154 KB)
Excel
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-
digital processing

1)        © Bundeswahlleiter, Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden 2008, Wahlkreiskarte für die Wahl zum 17. Deutschen Bundestag
Geological information © Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (www.bkg.bund.de)
For any use in digital or printed form, please mark the resulting product with a copyright notice according to the above wording.
2)        Technical information about map projection is available here.
3)        This map may be ordered as a print in DIN A1 format at EUR 9.80 quoting order number 4051100-09900-1 from HGV Hanseatische Gesellschaft für Verlagsservice mbH, Servicecenter Fachverlage, Postfach 1164, 72125 Kusterdingen, tel. +49 (0) 7071 / 935350, fax +49 (0) 7071 / 935335 , e-mail destatis@s-f-g.com or via www.destatis.de/publikationen.
4)        The constituency boundaries are represented as red lines and the administrative boundaries of the rural districts and towns not attached to an administrative district as blue lines. If the boundaries coincide, the line is of a mixed colour depending on the zoom level chosen.
5)        The geometric data of the constituencies and - if applicable – of the rural districts and towns not attached to an administrative district are strongly generalised compared with the data source VG1000 (see also footnotes 1 and 6).
6)        The basis of the geometric data is the product VG1000 of the Federal Agency for
Cartography and Geodesy (see also footnote 1).
7)        In addition to the geometric data, the shapefile contains area-related attributes. A description of these attributes is available here.
Footnote 2)   Map projection information

Projection:
Spheroid:
Date:
Unit of length:
First standard parallel:
Second standard parallel:
Central meridian:
Latitude of projection origin:
False northing:
False easting:
Lambert, conformal conical projection
Bessel
Bessel
metre
48 º  40'
53 º  40'
10 º
0 º
0 m
0 m

Footnote7)   The shapefile contains the following attributes for each area:

WKR _NR
WKR_NAME
LAND_NR
LAND_NAME
FLAG
Constituency number
Constituency name
Number of the Land
Name of the Land
0, 1 or 2
0: The respective constituency comprises exactly this area.
1: The respective constituency consists of several areas of which this is the largest.
2: The respective constituency consists of several areas of which this is not the largest.
The FLAG category is particularly useful for map labelling when the areas with the attribute FLAG = 0 or FLAG = 1 are selected before labelling.

 ©2008 Der Bundeswahlleiter
©2011 The Federal Returning Officer