Paderborn (district)
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| State: | North Rhine-Westphalia | |||||||||||||||
| Capital: | Paderborn
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| Area:||1,245.27 km²
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| Inhabitants:||298,318 (2005)
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| pop. density:||240 inh./km²
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| Car identification:||PB
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| Homepage:||http://www.kreis-paderborn.de/
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HistoryPaderborn was a clerical state until it was included into Prussia in 1802. After the Napoleonic wars when Prussia created the province Westphalia it also created two districts roughly covering the area of the previous state - Paderborn and Büren. In 1975 these two districts were merged to the current Paderborn district. GeographyThe Paderborn district is located at the western slope of the Teutoburg Forest, west of the Eggegebirge. The highest elevation is the Am Totenkopf at the district border near Bleiwäsche (Bad Wünnenberg) with 498 m, the lowest near Delbrück with 77 m. The main river in the district is the Lippe, which has its spring in Bad Lippspringe. Coat of arms
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