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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- District
- Vorpommern-Greifswald
- Municipal assoc
- Usedom-Süd
- Mayor
- Jochen Storrer
- Total
- 38.98 km (15.05 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Density
- 38.46/km (99.60/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 038372
- Vehicle registration
- VG
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Encyclopedic overview
Usedom ( German pronunciation: [ˈuːzədɔm] ) is a town on Usedom Island, in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in north-eastern Germany, close to the border with Poland. It is the seat of the Amt Usedom-Süd, to which 14 other communities also belong.
The whole island of Usedom was named after the town in medieval times.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Usedom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.