landesweiten

Landesweiten is the attributive inflected form of the German adjective landesweit, meaning state-wide, and is used to describe something that spans the federal states of a country such as Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. The term is formed from Land (state) and weit (wide).

Usage: It is commonly found in public administration, politics, journalism, and marketing to denote actions, programs, surveys, or campaigns that involve multiple states rather than a single state. In contrast to bundesweit, which implies nationwide coverage across all states, landesweit emphasizes cross-state reach within a federal system.

Inflection: When qualifying a plural noun, the adjective takes the -en ending: landesweiten Maßnahmen, landesweiten Umfragen. For a singular feminine noun, the form is landesweite (for example, landesweite Gesundheitskampagne). The adverbial form landesweit is used to describe the scope of an action without a following noun: Die Kampagne wurde landesweit durchgeführt.

Context: The term is common in Germany and is also used in Austria and Switzerland to describe initiatives implemented across several or all states or cantons. It is one of several scale descriptors alongside regional, national, and bundesweit.

See also: bundesweit, regional.