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Diepholz District
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district in Lower Saxony, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- Capital
- Diepholz
- District admin
- Cord Bockhop ( CDU )
- Total
- 1,987 km (767 sq mi)
- Density
- 111.3/km (288.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- DH, SY
- Website
- diepholz.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Diepholz
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Lower Saxony
- Contains
- Sulingen
- Capital
- Diepholz
- Population
- 216886
- Area
- 1987.00
- Elevation
- 52
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Vechta District
- Official website
- www.diepholz.de
- Licence plate code
- SY
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- Commons category
- Landkreis Diepholz
- topic's main category
- Category:Diepholz (district)
- inception
- 1977-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Landkreis Diepholz
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Diepholz (district)
- female population
- 109033
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Diepholz ( German pronunciation: [ˈdiːphɔlts]) is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northeast and clockwise) the districts of Verden, Nienburg, Minden-Lübbecke (in North Rhine-Westphalia), Osnabrück, Vechta and Oldenburg, and by the cities of Delmenhorst and Bremen. The most populous municipality is Stuhr at the border to Bremen.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diepholz District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.