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Geilenkirchen
Sign in to saveGeilenkirchen (, Limburgish: ) is a town in the district Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Netherlands, on the river Wurm, approx. 15 km (9.3 mi) north-east of Heerlen and 20 km (12.4 mi) north of Aachen.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Geilenkirchen is referenced by 118 other articles, and connects out to Germany, Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Districts of the Rhine Province, Heinsberg (district) and Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Its subject is documented across 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- German location.party
- CDU
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Geilenkirchen
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Geilenkirchen COA.svg
- German location.image_skyline
- Luftaufnahme Geilenkirchen Zentrum 2 20150925-DSC06696.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Aerial view
- German location.image_plan
- Geilenkirchen in HS.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Köln
- German location.district
- Heinsberg
- German location.elevation
- 95
- German location.area
- 83.16
- German location.postal_code
- 52511
- German location.area_code
- 02451; 02453; 02462
- German location.licence
- HS, ERK, GK
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 3 70 012
- German location.divisions
- 13
- German location.website
- www.geilenkirchen.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Geilenkirchen
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Heinsberg
- Population
- 28399
- Area
- 83.16
- Elevation
- 95
- Body of water
- Wurm
- Shares border with
- Gangelt
- Official website
- www.geilenkirchen.de
- Image
- 1 Burg Trips, (Geilenkirchen).jpg
- Dialing code
- 02462
- Licence plate code
- ERK
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- Commons category
- Geilenkirchen
- twinned administrative body
- Quimperlé
- postal code
- 52511
- Commons gallery
- Geilenkirchen
- short name
- Glk
- P6814
- Geilenkirchen
- inception
- 0501-00-00
- time of earliest written record
- 1170-00-00
- hashtag
- Geilenkirchen
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Born in Geilenkirchen
- References
Geilenkirchen (, Limburgish: ) is a town in the district Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Netherlands, on the river Wurm, approx. 15 km (9.3 mi) north-east of Heerlen and 20 km (12.4 mi) north of Aachen.
It was the site of Operation Clipper in November 1944.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geilenkirchen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (3)
On the map
2 mapped locations