Heinsberg
district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Facts
18 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Inception
- 1972[23]
- Official website
- www.kreis-heinsberg.de[24]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 51.000°, 6.170°
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Cologne Government Region[3]
- Shares border with
- Aachen cities region, Düren district, Viersen, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Mönchengladbach[6][7][8][9][10]
Population and size
More facts +7
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Erkelenz, Gangelt, Geilenkirchen, Heinsberg, Hückelhoven, Selfkant, Übach-Palenberg, Waldfeucht, Wassenberg, Wegberg[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
- Member of
- Landschaftsverband Rheinland, association for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, townships and districts in North Rhine Westphalia[1][2]
- Position held by head of the organization
- Wikidata item[31]
- Vehicle registration plate code
- HS[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Heinsberg
en Heinsberg (district)
ar هاينسبرغ_(مقاطعة)
cs Zemský okres Heinsberg
de Kreis Heinsberg
fa هاینسبرگ (ناحیه)
fr arrondissement de Heinsberg
he מחוז היינסברג
hu Heinsberg járás
it circondario di Heinsberg
ja ハインスベルク郡
pl Powiat Heinsberg
ru Хайнсберг
uk Гайнсберг
zh 海因斯贝格县
🔖 Identifiers · 26
- ISNI
- 0000000405654484
- VIAF cluster ID
- 156584417
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n78010792
- GND ID
- 4024226-2
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 3365
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--4355124
- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Daisy Ragole
- Freebase ID
- /m/019gfb
- GADM ID
- DEU.10.18_1
- GeoNames ID
- 3247455
- German district key
- 05370
- HASC
- DE.NW.HI
Show all 26 identifiers +14
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
- adm_135370
- INaturalist place ID
- 98555
- J9U entity ID
- 987007561969805171
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
- 4024226-2
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 19874
- Museum-digital place ID
- 8965
- NUTS code
- DEA29
- NWBib ID
- Heinsberg
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 62767
- Quora topic ID
- Heinsberg
- Ringgold ID
- 40185
- Topic's main category
- Category:Heinsberg (district)
- Who's on First ID
- 1125311779
- Yale LUX ID
- place/9a91118f-2d3f-45a2-947f-69728f427e28
📚 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
A/ADM3 · DE
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as of 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.
- Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 13
Heinsberg,
Erkelenz,
Geilenkirchen,
Wegberg,
Hückelhoven,
Wassenberg,
Selfkant,
Übach-Palenberg
+5 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 10
Heinsberg,
Erkelenz,
Geilenkirchen,
Wegberg,
Hückelhoven,
Wassenberg,
Selfkant,
Übach-Palenberg
+2 more
Shares border with 5
← Shares border with 5
Capital 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Member of 1
NWBib ID 1
Named after 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital of 1
← Category combines topics 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← NWBib ID 1
← SNARC ID 1
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