Ostvorpommern
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Ostvorpommern (, ) was a Kreis (district) in the eastern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Neighboring districts were (from east clockwise) Uecker-Randow, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Demmin and Nordvorpommern. The Hanseatic city of Greifswald was enclosed by the district, but did not belong to it.
Key facts
- District DE.name
- Ostvorpommern
- District DE.image_coa
- DEU Landkreis Ostvorpommern COA.svg
- District DE.state
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- District DE.capital
- Anklam
- District DE.area
- 1899
- District DE.population
- 105036
- District DE.population_as_of
- 2010-12-31
- District DE.carsign
- OVP
- District DE.founded
- 1994
- District DE.dissolved
- 2011
- District DE.image_flag
- Flagge des Landkreises Ostvorpommern.svg
- District DE.url
- http://www.kreis-ovp.de
- District DE.map
- File:Locator map OVP in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.svg
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Ostvorpommern (, ) was a Kreis (district) in the eastern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Neighboring districts were (from east clockwise) Uecker-Randow, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Demmin and Nordvorpommern. The Hanseatic city of Greifswald was enclosed by the district, but did not belong to it.
==History== Ostvorpommern District was established on June 12, 1994 by merging the former districts of Anklam, Greifswald and Wolgast. It was merged into Vorpommern-Greifswald on 4 September 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostvorpommern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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