German states checklist: how many of the 16 Bundesländer have you visited?
An interactive German states checklist you can tick off and save. Track all 16 Bundesländer you've visited, see your count and percentage, and color them in on a free Germany map.
Germany has 16 states, the Bundesländer, and most people can name a handful before they run out. Bavaria, Berlin, wherever they flew into. But if you've spent any real time in the country, you've usually been to more than you'd think.
Here's an easy way to find out. Go through the 16 below, tick the ones you've actually been to, and see where you land. Whatever you tick saves on this device, so you can come back and finish later.
Prefer to see it than list it? The free German states visited map colors in every state you pick and shows your percentage, the same count in map form.
The checklist
All 16 are here. Tick the ones you've been to and your progress saves in your browser.
German states checklist
0 of 16Add them to your passport in Stampie
This list is saved on this device. In Stampie, each one becomes a passport stamp. Add your photos and the dates you went, and keep your progress synced across your phone and the web.
Want it on a map instead? Open the free German states visited map and the states you ticked come with you, already filled in, ready to save or share.
The city-states
Three of the sixteen are just cities that count as whole states, so they're the easiest to tick off. Berlin you already know. Hamburg has the harbour and the Elbphilharmonie. Bremen is the smallest, with a lovely old market square. A weekend in any of them is a whole Bundesland done.
The north
Schleswig-Holstein sits up by Denmark with the sea on both sides. Lower Saxony runs inland from the coast through Hanover. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has the Baltic beaches and all the lakes. A lot of people tick these three just by driving between other places.
The west
This is the busy part. North Rhine-Westphalia has Cologne, Düsseldorf and the Ruhr, so it usually gets crossed off early. Rhineland-Palatinate is the one to slow down for, with the wine valleys along the Mosel and Rhine. Saarland is tiny and tucked against France. Hesse has Frankfurt, where a lot of people land first anyway.
The south
The postcard part of the country. Bavaria is the big one, with Munich, the Alps, Neuschwanstein and Oktoberfest. Next to it, Baden-Württemberg has the Black Forest, Heidelberg and Lake Constance. Between them they cover most of the scenery people picture when they think of Germany.
The east
The part with the most gaps for most people. Saxony is worth it for Dresden and Leipzig. Thuringia has the green middle of the country around Erfurt and Weimar. Saxony-Anhalt has the Harz mountains and the Luther towns. And Brandenburg wraps right around Berlin, so you've probably been through it more than you realise.
See the whole collection
Every Bundesland has its own stamp in Stampie's German States collection, ready to add to your journal the day you visit.
Quick note: Stampie is a small indie project made by a couple of people who love travel and collecting stamps. The state designs are our own, not official coats of arms or seals. They're just a fun way to mark where you've been. 🗺️
The checklist and the map are a nice start, but they only live on this one device. To keep your states for good, sync them across your phone and the web and line them up next to every country and city you've been to, that's what Stampie is for. Each Bundesland becomes a stamp in your journal, with your own photos and the dates you went, there whenever you want to look back.
So, how many of the 16 have you got?
FAQ
How many German states are there to visit? Germany has 16 states, called Bundesländer, and three of them are city-states: Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. The checklist above covers all 16.
Is there a free German states checklist? Yes. The checklist above lets you tick off every Bundesland you've been to, saves your progress on your device, and needs no account. You can also download it as a printable PDF, or color your states in on the free German states visited map.
Can I download or print the German states checklist as a PDF? Yes. Tick off your states above and hit Download as PDF for a clean, printable page with a checkbox next to every Bundesland and your progress at the top.
Does driving through a state count as visiting it? That's up to you. Some people only count a state where they stopped and did something, others count anywhere they set foot. Pick a rule and stick to it so your number always means the same thing.
What's the best way to track the German states you've visited? Something you can update in the moment beats a list you keep up from memory. Stampie turns each Bundesland into a stamp and fills in a Germany map as you go, synced across your phone and the web.
Behind Stampie
The idea for Stampie started in Peru 🇵🇪, back in 2023. I’ve always loved collecting passport stamps, that small thrill of seeing a new one land at the border. On that trip they just waved me through. No stamp. A small thing, but it stuck with me.
Turns out a lot of countries have quietly stopped stamping. A couple of years later I built the first version of Stampie for a hackathon, somewhere to keep that little ritual alive even when the ink doesn’t come. A passport-style journal for anyone who still wants this souvenir from every trip.
It quietly found its way to people. As an indie team, we keep working on Stampie in coffee breaks, on weekends, and from wherever the next trip takes us.
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