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Herdecke (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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 of Germany 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.
Herdecke is a municipality in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located south of Dortmund in the Ruhr area and is known as Die Stadt zwischen den ruhrseen. The city is located in the area of the RVR, Regionalverband Ruhr. The average precipitation of the town is between 850 and 900 millimeter and average temperature is around 10.6 degree Celsius. The population between 1939 and 1993 grew at 147.25 percent and it slowly declined after 1993. The municipal reform kept the population over 25,000.
Herdecke is located in the Ardeygebirge, the northwestern part of the Sauerland, between Dortmund in the north and northeast, Hagen in the south, Wetter in the southwest and Witten in the west and northwest. The mountain rocks are made up of carbon, along with quarries and mining sandstone are also found out of which only one is still running today. All of the lakes of the Ruhr are reservoirs. Tourism is popular especially around and on the two Ruhr lakes, Hengsteysee and Harkortsee. There is Bachviertel, the historical part of Herdecke.The suburban city also has a museum, a theatre and a cinema. Due to its many historic events and places it has been one of the favorite destinations of visitors.
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