Datteln
Datteln is a city in the North Rhine-Westphalia Region of Germany. It sits on the border of the Ruhr region and Münsterland on a crossroads of four canals, which makes it the biggest canal junction in the world.
- Type: Town with 34,300 residents
- Description: town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Neighbors: Haltern am See, Recklinghausen, and Waltrop
Places of Interest
Highlights: Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln and Lutherkirche.
Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln
Hospital
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horneburg.
Datteln
- Categories: medium-sized district town, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Recklinghausen, Münster, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.6515° or 51° 39′ 5″ north
Longitude
7.3386° or 7° 20′ 19″ east
Population
34,300
Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE DAT
Open location code
9F39M82Q+HC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Datteln” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Datteln”
- Arabic: “داتلن”
- Aragonese: “Datteln”
- Arpitan: “Datteln”
- Asturian: “Datteln”
- Azerbaijani: “Datteln”
- Basque: “Datteln”
- Bavarian: “Datteln”
- Belarusian: “Датэльн”
- Breton: “Datteln”
- Catalan: “Datteln”
- Cebuano: “Datteln”
- Chechen: “Даттельн”
- Chinese: “达特尔恩”
- Chinese: “達特爾恩”
- Corsican: “Datteln”
- Croatian: “Datteln”
- Czech: “Datteln”
- Danish: “Datteln”
- Dutch: “Datteln”
- Esperanto: “Datteln”
- Estonian: “Datteln”
- Finnish: “Datteln”
- French: “Datteln”
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- Galician: “Datteln”
- German: “Datteln”
- Hebrew: “דאטלן”
- Hungarian: “Datteln”
- Icelandic: “Datteln”
- Ido: “Datteln”
- Indonesian: “Datteln”
- Interlingua: “Datteln”
- Interlingue: “Datteln”
- Irish: “Datteln”
- Italian: “Datteln”
- Japanese: “ダッテルン”
- Jèrriais: “Datteln”
- Kazakh: “Даттельн”
- Kirghiz: “Даттельн”
- Kongo: “Datteln”
- Kurdish: “Datteln”
- Ladin: “Datteln”
- Ligurian: “Datteln”
- Limburgan: “Datteln”
- Lithuanian: “Datelnas”
- Low German: “Datteln”
- Luxembourgish: “Datteln”
- Malagasy: “Datteln”
- Malay: “Datteln”
- Minangkabau: “Datteln”
- Neapolitan: “Datteln”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Datteln”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Datteln”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Datteln”
- Persian: “داتلن”
- Picard: “Datteln”
- Piemontese: “Datteln”
- Polish: “Datteln”
- Portuguese: “Datteln”
- Romanian: “Datteln”
- Romansh: “Datteln”
- Russian: “Даттельн”
- Sardinian: “Datteln”
- Scots: “Datteln”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Datteln”
- Serbian: “Datteln”
- Serbian: “Дателн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Datteln”
- Sicilian: “Datteln”
- Slovak: “Datteln”
- Slovenian: “Datteln”
- South Azerbaijani: “داتلن”
- Spanish: “Datteln”
- Swahili: “Datteln”
- Swedish: “Datteln”
- Swiss German: “Datteln”
- Tatar: “Даттельн”
- Tumbuka: “Datteln”
- Turkish: “Datteln”
- Ukrainian: “Даттельн”
- Uzbek: “Datteln”
- Venetian: “Datteln”
- Vietnamese: “Datteln”
- Vlaams: “Datteln”
- Volapük: “Datteln”
- Walloon: “Datteln”
- Waray (Philippines): “Datteln”
- Welsh: “Datteln”
- Wolof: “Datteln”
- Zulu: “Datteln”
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