Vechta District
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district in Lower Saxony, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- Capital
- Vechta
- District admin
- Tobias Gerdesmeyer ( CDU )
- Total
- 813 km (314 sq mi)
- Density
- 180/km (467/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- VEC
- Website
- kreis-vechta.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Vechta
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Weser-Ems Government Region
- Contains
- Visbek
- Capital
- Vechta
- Population
- 141598
- Area
- 813.00
- Elevation
- 27
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Cloppenburg
- Official website
- www.landkreis-vechta.de
- Licence plate code
- VEC
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- Commons category
- Landkreis Vechta
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Vechta (district)
- topic's main category
- Category:Vechta (district)
- inception
- 1939-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Landkreis Vechta
- male population
- 71595
- female population
- 70003
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Encyclopedic overview
Vechta ( German pronunciation: [ˈfɛçta]) is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Oldenburg, Diepholz, Osnabrück and Cloppenburg.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vechta District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.