Encyclopedia > Kassel (region)

  Article Content

Kassel (region)

Statistics
State:Hesse
Capital:Kassel
Area:8,288.70 km²
Inhabitants:1,265,946 (2001)
pop. density:153 inh./km²
Map

Kassel is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the north of the country. It was created in 1866 when Prussia annexed the area to form the new province Hesse-Nassau. Altogether it consists of 138 municipalities.

Kreise
(districts)
Kreisfreie Städte
(district-free towns)
  1. Fulda
  2. Hersfeld-Rotenburg
  3. Kassel
  4. Schwalm-Eder
  5. Waldeck-Frankenberg
  6. Werra-Meißner
  1. Kassel

External links Official website (http://www.rp-kassel.de)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Lake Ronkonkoma, New York

... alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.86 and the average family size is 3.32. In the town the population is spread out with 24.7% ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 30.2 ms