Halle
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| Halle or Halle on the Saale | |
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| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
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| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| District | Urban district |
| Mayor | Dagmar Szabados (SPD) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 135.01 km² (52.1 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 87 m (285 ft) |
| Population | 233,415 (31/03/2007) |
| - Density | 1,729 /km² (4,478 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | HAL |
| Postal codes | 06108-06132 |
| Area code | 0345 |
| Website | www.halle.de |
Halle (also called Halle an der Saale) is the largest town in the German Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. It lies in the southern part of the state, on the river Saale. It has about 234,000 inhabitants (2006). It is famous all over the world because Georg Friedrich Handel was born there.
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| Urban districts | Dessau-Roßlau · Halle · Magdeburg |
| Rural districts | Altmarkkreis Salzwedel · Anhalt-Bitterfeld · Börde · Burgenlandkreis · Harz · Jerichower Land · Mansfeld-Südharz · Saalekreis · Salzlandkreis · Stendal · Wittenberg |
| Former districts | Anhalt-Zerbst · Aschersleben-Staßfurt · Bernburg · Bitterfeld · Bördekreis · Burgenlandkreis · Halberstadt · Köthen · Mansfelder Land · Merseburg-Querfurt · Ohrekreis · Quedlinburg · Saalkreis · Sangerhausen · Schönebeck · Weißenfels · Wernigerode |
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| Wendish and Pomeranian circle |
Lübeck*† · Hamburg† · Kiel · Lüneburg · Rostock · Stade · Stettin · Stralsund · Wismar |
| Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg circle |
Brunswick* · Berlin · Brandenburg an der Havel · Bremen† · Erfurt · Frankfurt an der Oder · Goslar · Halle · Magdeburg |
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Bryggen (in Bergen) · Hanzekantoor (in Brugge (Bruges)) · Steelyard (in London) · Peterhof (in Novgorod) |
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