Northern Districts of the GDR

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The Northern Districts of the GDR were the group of administrative regions in the northern part of East Germany that included areas such as Neubrandenburg and other coastal and Baltic-adjacent territories.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of administrative districts
historical region
adjacentTo Baltic Sea NERFINISHED
borderedBy Baltic Sea coast NERFINISHED
capitalOfLargestNorthernDistrict Rostock NERFINISHED
containsPartOf Brandenburg NERFINISHED
Lusatia NERFINISHED
Mecklenburg NERFINISHED
Saxony-Anhalt NERFINISHED
Vorpommern NERFINISHED
country German Democratic Republic NERFINISHED
dissolvedFollowing German reunification
endTime 1990
governedBy Socialist Unity Party of Germany NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic Baltic-adjacent territories
coastal regions
hasPart Bezirk Cottbus NERFINISHED
Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) NERFINISHED
Bezirk Magdeburg NERFINISHED
Bezirk Neubrandenburg NERFINISHED
Bezirk Potsdam NERFINISHED
Bezirk Rostock NERFINISHED
Bezirk Schwerin NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod Cold War
language German
locatedIn Central Europe
northern East Germany
partOf German Democratic Republic NERFINISHED
politicalSystem socialist state administration
replacedBy federal states of reunified Germany
startTime 1952
summerTimeZone Central European Summer Time
timeZone Central European Time
usedFor administrative division
economic management
regional planning

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Bezirk Potsdam locatedIn Northern Districts of the GDR
this entity surface form: Northern GDR
Bezirk Neubrandenburg partOf Northern Districts of the GDR
this entity surface form: Northern Districts of East Germany
Bezirk Neubrandenburg (1952–1990) partOf Northern Districts of the GDR
Bezirk Rostock partOf Northern Districts of the GDR
Bezirk Schwerin partOf Northern Districts of the GDR
this entity surface form: Northern Bezirke of the GDR