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Göttingen district

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district in Lower Saxony, Germany

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
Capital
Göttingen
Official language
German
Population
328074
Area
1117.00
Elevation
155
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Goslar district
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
category of associated people
Category:People from Göttingen (district)
native label
Göttingen
male population
161187
replaces
Osterode
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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.

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