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Hessisch Oldendorf (Lower Saxony)
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.
Hessisch Oldendorf is a town and a municipality in the Hamelin-Pyrmont district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weser, approximately 10 kilometers northwest of Hamelin. The adjective Hessisch is used since 1905, to distinguish it from other towns named Oldendorf. Hessisch Oldendorf was part of Hesse-Kassel from 1640 until 1932. With an area of 47,618 square kilometers and nearly eight million inhabitants. Lower Saxony lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the country's sixteen states of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining.
Lower Saxony borders on the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The state of Bremen forms two enclaves within lower Saxony. The state's principal cities include Hanover, Brunswick, Oldenburg, and Gottingen. Hessisch Oldendorf, 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 origins back to prehistoric times.
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