Friesland
district of Lower Saxony, Germany
Facts
21 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- district of Lower Saxony, Option municipality[12]
- Official website
- www.friesland.de
- Native label
- Friesland
Status and dates
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- August 1, 1977[23]
Location
- Country
- Germany, West Germany[8][9]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 53.500°, 8.000°[24]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Lower Saxony, Free State of Oldenburg, Verwaltungsbezirk Oldenburg, Weser-Ems Government Region[4][5][6][7]
Relations
- Member of
- Niedersächsischer Landkreistag, KDO[2][3]
More facts +12
- Area
- +608.00
- Different from
- Nordfriesland district
- Female population
- +50396
- Head of government
- Sven Ambrosy, Karin Evers-Meyer[10][11]
- Legislative body
- Wikidata item[19]
- Licence plate code
- FRI[20]
- Male population
- +48064
- Population
- 98k (97k–98k, n=4)⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 97,327 · 97,900 · 98,409 · 98,460 GeoNames 100,411 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
- Position held by head of the organization
- Wikidata item
- Shares border with
- Wittmund, Leer, Ammerland District, Wesermarsch District, Wilhelmshaven[14][15][16][17][18]
🏷️ Also known as
en Friesland (district)
en Friesland
cs Zemský okres Frísko
cs Zemský okres Friesland
da Landkreis Friesland
de Amt Friesland
el Φρίσλαντ
es Distrito de Frisia
fa فریسلاند (ناحیه)
fr arrondissement de Frise
fr Frise
he מחוז פריזלנד
hu Frízföld
it circondario della Frisia
ja フリースラント郡
pl Powiat Friesland
ru Фрисландия
uk Фрисландія
zh 弗里斯兰县
🔖 Identifiers · 26
- VIAF cluster ID
- 138398410
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n82094606
- GND ID
- 4018615-5
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 3369
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--4359172
- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Wikidata item
- Freebase ID
- /m/012pff
- GADM ID
- DEU.9.11_1
- GeoNames ID
- 2924362
- German district key
- 03455
- German regional key
- 034550000000
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7181800
Show all 26 identifiers +14
- HASC
- DE.NI.FI
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 19861
- Museum-digital place ID
- 6919
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge525538
- NUTS code
- DE94A
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000993964
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007552815705171
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 62773
- OpenWeatherMap city ID
- 2924362
- Topic's main category
- Category:Friesland (district)
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- j9r4mzey
- Who's on First ID
- 1125363403
- Yale LUX ID
- place/52730770-5c4c-4ebc-ba9b-665204500c7d
📚 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.
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
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Contained subdivisions 13
Shares border with 5
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Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Country 2
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Capital 1
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Summary
Friesland is a district of Lower Saxony[1].