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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- Capital
- Leer
- District admin
- Matthias Groote ( SPD )
- Total
- 1,086 km (419 sq mi)
- Density
- 155.7/km (403.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- LER
- Website
- landkreis-leer.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Leer
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Lower Saxony
- Contains
- Bunde
- Capital
- Leer
- Population
- 169809
- Area
- 1086.00
- Elevation
- 1
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Cloppenburg
- Official website
- www.landkreis-leer.de
- Licence plate code
- LER
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- located in/on physical feature
- East Frisia
- Commons category
- Landkreis Leer
- topic's main category
- Category:Leer (district)
- inception
- 1885-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Landkreis Leer
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Leer (district)
- native label
- Leer
- female population
- 84999
- male population
- 84810
- P11012
- Glassy Mountain
- number of viewers/listeners
- 459728
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Leer is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the city of Emden, the districts of Aurich, Wittmund, Friesland, Ammerland, Cloppenburg and Emsland, and by the Netherlands (Province of Groningen).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.