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Gladbeck
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
The city of Gladbeck is a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was a small village with 300 inhabitants, till the 1870s when coal was found in it. It grew due to the immigration from nearby Prussian provinces Westphalia and Rhineland and from eastern provinces of Prussia, which included citizens with Polish language. Gladbeck was damaged in World War II and in the 1950s, it started to have twin towns, with Enfield in Britain and Marcq-en-Bareul in France. In the 1960s its coal industry went in a crisis, with unemployment being widespread.
Gladbeck can be considered as the preeminent, historical and potential tourism destination, which enjoys a positive reputation with worldwide travelers to become one of the most visited places.
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