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Emsland
Also known as District of Emsland, Landkreis Emsland
Landkreis Emsland () is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Leer, Cloppenburg and Osnabrück, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (district of Steinfurt), the district of Bentheim in Lower Saxony, and the Netherlands (provinces of Drenthe and Groningen).
Key facts
- German district.name
- Emsland
- German district.state
- Lower Saxony
- German district.capital
- Meppen
- German district.area
- 2,881
- German district.Kreisschlüssel
- 03454
- German district.district_admin
- Marc-André Burgdorf
- German district.admin_party
- CDU
- German district.carsign
- EL
- German district.image_coa
- DEU Landkreis Emsland COA.svg
- German district.image_flag
- Flagge Landkreis Emsland.svg
- German district.url
- www.emsland.de
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Landkreis Emsland () is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Leer, Cloppenburg and Osnabrück, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (district of Steinfurt), the district of Bentheim in Lower Saxony, and the Netherlands (provinces of Drenthe and Groningen).
== History == thumb|left|Memorial at the site of the entrance to the former Börgermoor concentration camp thumb|left|Transrapid test track
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