return {
["Brandenburg"] = "DE-BB",
["Berlin"] = "DE-BE",
["Baden-Württemberg"] = "DE-BW",
["Baden-Wuerttemberg"] = "DE-BW",
["Bayern"] = "DE-BY",
["Bavaria"] = "DE-BY",
["Bremen"] = "DE-HB",
["Bremen (bang)"] = "DE-HB",
["Hessen"] = "DE-HE",
["Hesse"] = "DE-HE",
["Hamburg"] = "DE-HH",
["Mecklenburg-Vorpommern"] = "DE-MV",
["Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania"] = "DE-MV",
["Niedersachsen"] = "DE-NI",
["Lower Saxony"] = "DE-NI",
["Nordrhein-Westfalen"] = "DE-NW",
["North Rhine-Westphalia"] = "DE-NW",
["NRW"] = "DE-NW",
["Rheinland-Pfalz"] = "DE-RP",
["Rhineland-Palatinate"] = "DE-RP",
["Schleswig-Holstein"] = "DE-SH",
["Saarland"] = "DE-SL",
["Sachsen"] = "DE-SN",
["Saxony"] = "DE-SN",
["Sachsen-Anhalt"] = "DE-ST",
["Saxony-Anhalt"] = "DE-ST",
["Thüringen"] = "DE-TH",
["Thuringia"] = "DE-TH",
}
