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Landscape Protection areas

Percentage of land designated as Landscape protection areas in the German Länder and in Germany as a whole
BW (Baden-Württemberg) 23.0
BY (Bavaria) 30.1
BE (Berlin) 13.3
BB (Brandenburg) 40.2
HB (Bremen) 20.3
HH (Hamburg) 19.1
HE (Hessen) 9.8
MV (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) 1) 30.0
NI (Lower Saxony) 20.1
NW (North Rhine-Westphalia) 45.2
RP (Rhineland-Palatinate) 29.5
SL (Saarland) 39.4
SN (Saxony) 30.0
ST (Saxony-Anhalt) 33.3
SH (Schleswig-Holstein) 2) 16.5
TH (Thuringia) 26.0
Germany 28.5

1) Real surface area of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (with sovereign waters): 3.099.400 ha; landscape protection areas equate to 22.4 percent of this total, 63.700 ha of Landscape protection areas are overlapped by Nature conservation areas; as of 02/2010
2) as of 12/2004

Last Change: 29/03/2011

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