Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg - Prenzlauer Berg East (electoral constituency)

Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg- - Prenzlauer Berg East is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. Located east of Berlin centre, it was created for the 2002 election and is the only single member constituency in the Bundestag to be represented by Alliance '90/The Greens (GR). As of the 2017 election, the district is represented by Canan Bayram.

The constituency, numbered constituency 84 by the German electoral authorities, contains the whole of the Berlin borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. This borough, a merger of two former boroughs, was created by a 2001 administrative reform and joined two areas which are linked only by one single bridge over the Spree river, the Oberbaumbrücke. The constituency also includes the eastern section of Prenzlauer Berg in the borough of Pankow. The constituency was created for the first time for the 2002 election when the number of constituencies in Berlin was reduced from 13 to 12. Together with Berlin Mitte, which was also created for the 2002 election, it is the first time that a constituency has included parts of the former East Berlin and West Berlin. The constituency contains a number of Berlin landmarks such as the East Side Gallery the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin Ostbahnhof historically one of the two main railway stations in Berlin, the Joseph Stalin era Karl-Marx-Allee and the towers at Frankfurter Tor.

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