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Nettetal
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.
Nettetal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is not a town itself, but a federation of villages that have developed around the river Nette, and the worked out gravel pits that now form five lakes. Nettetal is situated on the border with the Netherlands, approximately 20 kilometers north-west from Monchengladbach and 10 kilometers south-east from Venlo, the Netherlands. It has an aera of 83.64 kilometers and its population was 43,260 in the year 2005.
The main town of Nettetal is Lobberich, which owes its past wealth from the local German lace industries which developed exponentially before the First World War, and the town owes it's impressive late Victorian Church. During the Second World War the Ancient Church was pierced by an American high-explosive shell, the crater of which can still be seen in the wall to date.
Nettetal, justifiably so, enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers, and is one of the most visited place. It is also said the place of best geographical environment and can trace its origin back to prehistoric times. Presently, Nettetal experiences a sharp social, economic and population growth derivative of the strategic position of the locality and the high level of well-being and quality of life that is enjoyed with respect to other places of Germany.
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