Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Baden-Württemberg
- Adm region
- Freiburg
- Capital
- Konstanz
- District admin
- Zeno Danner
- Total
- 817.95 km (315.81 sq mi)
- Density
- 356.80/km (924.10/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- KN, STO and BÜS
- Website
- www .lrakn .de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Freiburg Government Region
- Contains
- Volkertshausen
- Capital
- Constance
- Population
- 285325
- Area
- 817.95
- Elevation
- 437
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Head of government
- Robert Maus
- Shares border with
- Bodenseekreis
- Official website
- www.landkreis-konstanz.de
- Licence plate code
- KN
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- Commons category
- Landkreis Konstanz
- topic's main category
- Category:Konstanz (district)
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Konstanz (district)
- male population
- 139046
- female population
- 146279
- P6482
- Konstanz
- P11012
- Wild
- inception
- 1938-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Konstanz (or Constance) is a Landkreis (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg on the German-Swiss border, situated along the shores of Lake Constance. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Schwarzwald-Baar, Tuttlingen, Sigmaringen and Bodenseekreis. To the south it borders the Swiss cantons of Zurich, Thurgau and Schaffhausen. The municipality of Büsingen am Hochrhein is an exclave of Germany surrounded by Swiss territory.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Konstanz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.