Aachen cities region
German district of North Rhine-Westphalia
Facts
25 properties- Instance of
- special municipality association of Germany, third-level administrative division, rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia[8][9]
- Inception
- October 21, 2009[31]
- Official website
- www.staedteregion-aachen.de[33]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 50.769°, 6.097°
- Area
- +707.15[40]
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Aachen, Alsdorf, Baesweiler, Eschweiler, Herzogenrath, Monschau, Roetgen, Simmerath, Stolberg, Würselen[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]
- Elevation above sea level
- +168[39]
- Female population
- +275303[38]
- Head of government
- Helmut Etschenberg[7]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Cologne Government Region[5]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Euregio Meuse-Rhine[32]
- Main regulatory text
- Aachen-Gesetz (2008)[16]
- Member of
- Landschaftsverband Rheinland, association for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, townships and districts in North Rhine Westphalia, Climate Alliance, WAGEV[1][2][3][4]
- Number of viewers/listeners
- +284721[42]
- Position held by head of the organization
- Wikidata item[41]
- Shares border with
- Düren district, Heinsberg, Euskirchen, Liege, Limburg[11][12][13][14][15]
- Street address
- Zollernstraße[43]
🏷️ Also known as
en Aachen urban region
en Aachen cities region
cs Zemský okres Cáchy
cs Zemský okres Städteregion Aachen
cs Městský region Cáchy
cs Zemský okres Aachen
de StädteRegion Aachen
de Städteregion Aachen
en-gb Aachen
es Distrito de Aquisgran
es Distrito de Aquisgrán
fa آخن (بخش)
fi Aachenin kaupunkialue
fr région urbaine d'Aix-la-Chapelle
he חבל אאכן
hu aacheni városrégió
id Aachen (distrik)
it Regione urbana di Aquisgrana
ms Aachen (daerah)
nl Stadsregio Aken
🔖 Identifiers · 32
- ISNI
- 0000000406366660
- VIAF cluster ID
- 123169550
- GND ID
- 10171627-8
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Aachen aerial view 10-2017 img2.jpg ↗
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 2305
- Data Commons ID
- nuts/DEA2D
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--4355122
- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Cheumatopsyche hasalaka
- Facebook username
- StaedteRegion.Aachen
- Freebase ID
- /m/0192hf
- GADM ID
- DEU.10.47_1
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- 266923
Show all 32 identifiers +20
- GeoNames ID
- 3247448
- German district key
- 05334
- German regional key
- 053340000000
- HASC
- DE.NW.AC
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
- object_1052934
- INaturalist place ID
- 98573
- IdRef ID
- 027249999
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 7842
- Museum-digital place ID
- 10409
- NWBib ID
- Aachen cities region
- OSM Name Suggestion Index ID
- stadteregionaachen-1fea76
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 62665
- Topic's main category
- Category:Aachen (district)
- WOEID
- 12596696
- Who's on First ID
- 1125358399
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJcWtXydyRFHXkMPK7GbVC
- Yale LUX ID
- place/5dbebc1a-399e-4ebb-87ed-c66d409f8504
- YouTube channel ID
- UC8luMbC7GKP1pOko3uWga8A
- YouTube handle
- staedteregionaachen
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
⛏️ Lake Facts
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Berlin
2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 14
Contains the administrative territorial entity 10
Shares border with 5
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Member of 2
← Category combines topics 2
Capital 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Headquarters location 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in/on physical feature 1
NWBib ID 1
Named after 1
Replaces 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← NWBib ID 1
← Replaced by 1
← SNARC ID 1
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