(singular ) or (singular ) is the name for (federal) states in two German-speaking countries. It may more specifically refer to: *

States of Austria Austria is a federal republic consisting of nine federal states. The European Commission calls them provinces. Austrian federal states can pass laws that stay within the limits of the constitution, and each federal state has representatives in ...

, the nine federal subdivisions of Austria *

States of Germany The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign ''states''. Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a ...

, the 16 federal subdivisions of Germany

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