Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia

government region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

government region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

government region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

government region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

government region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

mountain range

thumb|Angria () within the Stem Duchy of Saxony in the 10 century

thumb|right|The Westphalian Hellweg (marked red) at Dortmund in 1610, map by Detmar Muhler In the Middle Ages, Hellweg was the official and common name given to main travelling routes in Germany. Their breadth was decreed as an unimpeded passageway a lance's width, about three metres, which the landholders, through which the Hellweg passed, were required to maintain.

mine

euregio in Belgium, Germany and Netherlands

region in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, Germany

area of Germany

open-pit lignite mine in Germany

thumb|right|Ostwestfalen-Lippe marked in red within Germany

EUREGIO is a cross-border region between the Netherlands and Germany and the first Euroregion. It was founded in 1958 as a German Eingetragener Verein, and has been converted in 2016 into a public body based on the 1991 Treaty of Anholt (, ). Participating communities are in Niedersachsen (Osnabrück, Landkreis Osnabrück, southern part of Landkreis Emsland, Bentheim) and Nordrhein-Westfalen (Münsterland) in Germany and parts of the Dutch provinces Gelderland, Overijssel and Drenthe. Participating cities in the region are Münster, Osnabrück, Gronau, Enschede, and Hengelo. The headquarters of the

thumb|The basalt quarry of Blauer Stein near Kuchhausen

region of Germany

river in Germany