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Emsland
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Landkreis Emsland () is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Leer, Cloppenburg and Osnabrück, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (district of Steinfurt), the district of Bentheim in Lower Saxony, and the Netherlands (provinces of Drenthe and Groningen).
Key facts
- German district.name
- Emsland
- German district.state
- Lower Saxony
- German district.capital
- Meppen
- German district.area
- 2,881
- German district.Kreisschlüssel
- 03454
- German district.district_admin
- Marc-André Burgdorf
- German district.admin_party
- CDU
- German district.carsign
- EL
- German district.image_coa
- DEU Landkreis Emsland COA.svg
- German district.image_flag
- Flagge Landkreis Emsland.svg
- German district.url
- www.emsland.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Landkreis Emsland
Der Landkreis Emsland, am 1. August 1977 aus den Kreisen Aschendorf-Hümmling, Meppen und Lingen gebildet, ist flächenmäßig der größte Landkreis Niedersachsens und zählt zu den erfolgreichsten Regionen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
emsland.de →Link to the official site · 40,000 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Emsland
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Lower Saxony
- Contains
- Meppen
- Capital
- Meppen
- Population
- 325657
- Area
- 2882.07
- Elevation
- 25
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Drenthe
- Official website
- www.emsland.de
- Licence plate code
- EL
Show 10 more facts
- different from
- Emsland
- Commons category
- Landkreis Emsland
- topic's main category
- Category:Emsland
- inception
- 1977-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Landkreis Emsland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Emsland
- male population
- 165784
- female population
- 159873
- topic has template
- Template:Cities and towns in Emsland
- P11012
- Tribes of Arabia
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Cities and municipalities
- See also
- References
- External links
Landkreis Emsland () is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Leer, Cloppenburg and Osnabrück, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (district of Steinfurt), the district of Bentheim in Lower Saxony, and the Netherlands (provinces of Drenthe and Groningen).
== History == thumb|left|Memorial at the site of the entrance to the former Börgermoor concentration camp thumb|left|Transrapid test track
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emsland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (10)
On the map
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