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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Adm region
- Detmold
- Capital
- Detmold
- District admin
- Axel Lehmann ( SPD )
- Total
- 1,246.4 km (481.2 sq mi)
- Density
- 278.52/km (721.37/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- LIP
- Website
- www.lippe.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Detmold Government Region
- Contains
- Barntrup
- Capital
- Detmold
- Population
- 348391
- Area
- 1246.21
- Elevation
- 129
- Shares border with
- Gütersloh
- Official website
- www.lippe.de
- Licence plate code
- LIP
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- Commons category
- Kreis Lippe
- topic's main category
- Category:Kreis Lippe
- inception
- 1973-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Kreis Lippe
- member of
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lippe
- twinned administrative body
- Kaunas
- P6814
- Lippe
- female population
- 177426
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Encyclopedic overview
Lippe ( German pronunciation: [ˈlɪpə]) is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe.
The district of Lippe is named after the Lords of Lippe, who originally lived on the river Lippe and founded Lippstadt there, and their Principality of Lippe. It was a state within the Holy Roman Empire and retained statehood until 1947, when it became a district of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lippe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.