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Ostallgäu () is a Landkreis (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and by the Austrian state of Tyrol. The town of Kaufbeuren is enclosed by but does not belong to the district.

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German district.name
Ostallgäu
German district.state
Bavaria
German district.image_flag
Flagge Ostallgäu.svg
German district.image_coa
Wappen Landkreis Ostallgaeu.svg
German district.capital
Marktoberdorf
German district.regierungsbezirk
Swabia
German district.area
1395
German district.Kreisschlüssel
09777
German district.district_admin
Maria Rita Zinnecker
German district.admin_party
CSU
German district.carsign
OAL

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Official name
Landkreis Ostallgäu
Population
142047
Area
1395.00
Elevation
724
Official website
www.ostallgaeu.de
Licence plate code
MOD
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Commons category
Landkreis Ostallgäu
inception
1972-07-01
male population
70631
female population
71416
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Ostallgäu () is a Landkreis (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and by the Austrian state of Tyrol. The town of Kaufbeuren is enclosed by but does not belong to the district.

==History== Before 1803 the region was split into several tiny states, most of them clerical states. When these states were dissolved in 1803, the Ostallgäu region became part of Bavaria. The kings of Bavaria soon developed a special relationship with the region and built their famous castles of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein there.

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