Steinfurt Rural District
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Map of North Rhine-Westphalia highlighting the district of Steinfurt |
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State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Adm. region | Münster |
District seat | Steinfurt |
Area | 1,792.097 km² |
Population | 438,765 (2002) |
Pop. density | 245 /km² |
Licence plate code | ST |
Web page | http://www.kreis-steinfurt.de |
Steinfurt is a Kreis (district) in the northern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The ares became a part of the Prussian province of Westphalia in 1815. The new government in 1816 created the districts Steinfurt and Tecklenburg.
In 1975 the two old districts were joined together and Greven and Saerbeck from the former district Münster added to make the current district.
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Urban districts | Aachen • Bielefeld • Bochum • Bonn • Bottrop • Dortmund • Duisburg • Düsseldorf • Essen • Gelsenkirchen • Hagen • Hamm • Herne • Köln (Cologne) • Krefeld • Leverkusen • Mönchengladbach • Mülheim • Münster • Oberhausen • Remscheid • Solingen • Wuppertal | |
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