{
  "id": "de/admin1@hex",
  "kind": "layout",
  "of": "de/admin1@10m",
  "grid": "hex",
  "orientation": "pointy",
  "offset": "odd-r",
  "keyField": "iso_3166_2",
  "nameField": "name",
  "levelName": "States",
  "unplaced": [],
  "source": "hand-authored for ApexMaps, verified against Natural Earth 5.1.1 centroids and shared-arc adjacency",
  "license": "public domain",
  "attribution": "",
  "vintage": "2026",
  "boundaries": "All sixteen Laender.",
  "compromises": [
    "Berlin is drawn beside Brandenburg rather than inside it. The two share a centroid, so no grid can express the enclave; adjacency is preserved instead.",
    "Hamburg and Bremen get a full cell each, which is the entire reason to draw this rather than a choropleth.",
    "Brandenburg sits in the same column as Thueringen though it is 2.4 degrees further east. Its only cell touching both Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Sachsen-Anhalt is the one directly above Thueringen's."
  ],
  "accept": {
    "order": [
      "DE-BB/DE-TH"
    ],
    "borders": []
  },
  "cells": {
    "DE-SH": [
      1,
      0
    ],
    "DE-MV": [
      2,
      0
    ],
    "DE-HB": [
      0,
      1
    ],
    "DE-HH": [
      1,
      1
    ],
    "DE-BB": [
      2,
      1
    ],
    "DE-NI": [
      1,
      2
    ],
    "DE-ST": [
      2,
      2
    ],
    "DE-BE": [
      3,
      2
    ],
    "DE-NW": [
      0,
      3
    ],
    "DE-HE": [
      1,
      3
    ],
    "DE-TH": [
      2,
      3
    ],
    "DE-SN": [
      3,
      3
    ],
    "DE-RP": [
      1,
      4
    ],
    "DE-BY": [
      2,
      4
    ],
    "DE-SL": [
      0,
      5
    ],
    "DE-BW": [
      1,
      5
    ]
  },
  "names": {
    "DE-SH": "Schleswig-Holstein",
    "DE-MV": "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern",
    "DE-HB": "Bremen",
    "DE-HH": "Hamburg",
    "DE-BB": "Brandenburg",
    "DE-NI": "Niedersachsen",
    "DE-ST": "Sachsen-Anhalt",
    "DE-BE": "Berlin",
    "DE-NW": "Nordrhein-Westfalen",
    "DE-HE": "Hessen",
    "DE-TH": "Thüringen",
    "DE-SN": "Sachsen",
    "DE-RP": "Rheinland-Pfalz",
    "DE-BY": "Bayern",
    "DE-SL": "Saarland",
    "DE-BW": "Baden-Württemberg"
  }
}