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Also known as Osterode (district)

former district in Lower Saxony, Germany

Key facts

Country
Germany
State
Lower Saxony
Capital
Osterode
Total
636 km (246 sq mi)
Density
116/km (301/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+01:00 ( CET )
Summer dst
UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
Vehicle registration
OHA

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Wikidata facts

Country
Germany
Located in
Lower Saxony
Contains
Bad Grund
Population
75245
Area
636.00
Elevation
505
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Eichsfeld
Licence plate code
OHA
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Commons category
Landkreis Osterode am Harz
topic's main category
Category:Osterode (district)
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2016-11-01
inception
1885-00-00
Commons gallery
Landkreis Osterode am Harz
twinned administrative body
Scarborough
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Encyclopedic overview

Osterode ( German: [ˌɔstəˈʁoːdə] ) was a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was bounded by (from the southwest and clockwise) the districts of Göttingen, Northeim and Goslar, and by the state of Thuringia (districts of Nordhausen and Eichsfeld).

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Osterode” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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