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Göttingen district
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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- Capital
- Göttingen
- District admin
- Marcel Riethig ( SPD )
- Total
- 1,753 km (677 sq mi)
- Density
- 187.1/km (484.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- GÖ, DUD, HMÜ, OHA
- Website
- landkreis-goettingen.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Göttingen
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Lower Saxony
- Contains
- Osterode am Harz
- Capital
- Göttingen
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 328074
- Area
- 1117.00
- Elevation
- 155
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Goslar district
- Official website
- www.landkreisgoettingen.de
- Licence plate code
- DUD
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- Commons category
- Landkreis Göttingen
- topic's main category
- Category:Göttingen (district)
- twinned administrative body
- Steglitz-Zehlendorf
- inception
- 1885-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Landkreis Göttingen
- member of
- Climate Alliance
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Göttingen (district)
- native label
- Göttingen
- male population
- 161187
- replaces
- Osterode
- different from
- Principality of Göttingen
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Encyclopedic overview
Göttingen ( German pronunciation: [ˈɡœtɪŋən] ) is a district (German: Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the districts of Northeim and Goslar, and by the states of Thuringia (district of Eichsfeld) and Hesse (districts of Werra-Meißner and Kassel, and the district-free city of Kassel). The capital is the university city of Göttingen.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Göttingen district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.