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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
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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.