The most comprehensive and detailed index of place names in Germany provides an extraordinary amount of information: over 137,000 place names, not only including independent towns and municipalities but also over 100,000 otherwise undocumented small and very small villages, settlements, small settlement areas, farms, hamlets, etc. their affiliation with local administrative bodies (town or municipality) along with their respective communal codes number of inhabitants, area, dialing code, new: geographical coordinates, height above sea level and UN/LOCODE The respective responsible federal, state and communal authorities as well as the appropriate jurisdiction for all places in Germany: administrative associations, associations of communities, communities county, regional administrative district, state (Land) general jurisdiction, courts dealing with employment, financial, and social matters, administrative court furthermore: registry offices, financial and tax administration, social security/pension offices, public health departments, trade supervisory offices, job centers/unemployment offices, chambers of industry and commerce, customs offices, "Point of Single Contact" according to EU Service Directive and German Federal Financial Administrationweiterlesen