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Mettmann
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district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Adm region
- Düsseldorf
- Capital
- Mettmann
- District admin
- Bettina Warnecke ( CDU )
- Total
- 407.09 km (157.18 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,205.9/km (3,123.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- ME
- Website
- www.kreis-mettmann.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Düsseldorf Government Region
- Capital
- Mettmann
- Population
- 485684
- Area
- 407.22
- Elevation
- 143
- Shares border with
- Essen
- Official website
- www.kreis-mettmann.de
- Licence plate code
- ME
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- topic's main category
- Category:Mettmann (district)
- Commons category
- Kreis Mettmann
- Commons gallery
- Kreis Mettmann
- member of
- Landschaftsverband Rheinland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Mettmann (district)
- P6814
- Mettmann
- female population
- 250979
- male population
- 234705
- P11012
- Rift
- number of viewers/listeners
- 324899
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Encyclopedic overview
Mettmann ( German pronunciation: [ˈmɛtman]) is a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring are the Ennepe-Ruhr, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis and the district-free cities Cologne, Leverkusen, Wuppertal, Solingen, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Mülheim, Essen. It is the most densely populated rural district in Germany; it borders Düsseldorf Airport in the northwestern district borders, on the city limits of Ratingen, and is also near Cologne Bonn Airport. It was named after Mettmann, its district seat.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mettmann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.