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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- Capital
- Peine
- District admin
- Henning Heiß ( SPD )
- Total
- 535 km (207 sq mi)
- Density
- 256/km (663/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- PE
- Website
- landkreis-peine.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Peine
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Lower Saxony
- Contains
- Edemissen
- Capital
- Peine
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 133965
- Area
- 535.00
- Elevation
- 66
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Hannover Region
- Official website
- www.landkreis-peine.de
- Licence plate code
- PE
Show 10 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Peine (district)
- Commons category
- Landkreis Peine
- inception
- 1885-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Landkreis Peine
- member of
- Climate Alliance
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Peine (district)
- native label
- Peine
- male population
- 66286
- female population
- 67679
- replaces
- Braunschweig
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Peine is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Hildesheim, Hanover and Gifhorn, and the cities of Brunswick and Salzgitter.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.