North Rhine-Westphalia
Münsterland
Münster

Münster

Münster is a city in , in the northwest of . It is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. Of its 315,000 residents, more than 50,000 are students.
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  • Type: City with 314,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “Mimigernaford”, “Muenster”, “Munistri”, and “Munster”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Schloss Münster and Historical City Hall of Münster.

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, officially Fürstbischöfliches , is the schloss built as the residence of the prince-bishop of Münster, modern-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Town hall
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The , located in the centre of Prinzipalmarkt 10, is a well-known and much-visited landmark of the city of Münster, alongside , with over 120,000 visitors recorded at the site in 2012.

Church
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or St.-Paulus-Dom is the cathedral church of the Catholic Diocese of Münster in Germany, and is dedicated to Saint Paul. It is counted among the most significant church buildings in Münster and, along with the , is one of the symbols of the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Münster-Kinderhaus and Münster-Erphoviertel.

Suburb
Kinderhaus is a district of Münster, a city in , . It lies approximately 4 km to the north of the centre of Münster and belongs to the borough Münster-Nord, together with Coerde and Sprakel.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Münster

Latitude
51.9625° or 51° 57′ 45″ north
Longitude
7.6252° or 7° 37′ 31″ east
Population
314,000
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
IATA airport code
FMO
United Nations Location Code
DE MSR
Open location code
9F39XJ7G+23
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273510436
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2867543
Wiki­data ID
Q2742
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Münster” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Münster”
  • Albanian: “Münster”
  • Arabic: “مونستر”
  • Aragonese: “Münster”
  • Armenian: “Մյունստեր”
  • Arpitan: “Münster”
  • Asturian: “Münster”
  • Azerbaijani: “Münster”
  • Balinese: “Münster”
  • Bashkir: “Мюнстер”
  • Basque: “Münster”
  • Bavarian: “Münster”
  • Belarusian: “Мюнстэр”
  • Breton: “Münster”
  • Bulgarian: “Мюнстер”
  • Catalan: “Münster”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Münster”
  • Cebuano: “Münster (kapital sa distrito nga gobyerno)”
  • Cebuano: “Münster”
  • Central Kurdish: “مونستەر”
  • Chechen: “Муьнстер”
  • Chinese: “Münster”
  • Chinese: “明斯特”
  • Chinese: “蒙斯達”
  • Chuvash: “Мюнстер”
  • Corsican: “Münster”
  • Croatian: “Münster”
  • Czech: “Münster”
  • Danish: “Münster”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Münster”
  • Dutch: “Münster in Westfalen”
  • Dutch: “Munster”
  • Dutch: “Münster”
  • Erzya: “Мюнстер ош”
  • Esperanto: “Monastero”
  • Esperanto: “Münster”
  • Estonian: “Münster”
  • Finnish: “Münster”
  • French: “Münster”
  • Friulian: “Münster”
  • Galician: “Münster”
  • Georgian: “მიუნსტერი”
  • German: “Monasterium”
  • German: “Mönster”
  • German: “Münster (Westf)”
  • German: “Münster (Westfalen)”
  • German: “Münster / Nordrhein-Westf.”
  • German: “Münster i.W.”
  • German: “Münster in Westfalen”
  • German: “Münster”
  • Greek: “Μύνστερ”
  • Hebrew: “מינסטר”
  • Hindi: “मंस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Münster”
  • Icelandic: “Münster”
  • Ido: “Münster”
  • Indonesian: “Münster”
  • Interlingua: “Münster”
  • Interlingue: “Münster”
  • Irish: “Münster”
  • Italian: “Münster”
  • Japanese: “ミュンスター”
  • Kazakh: “Мюнстер”
  • Kirghiz: “Мүнстер”
  • Kirghiz: “Мюнстер”
  • Kölsch: “Münster”
  • Kongo: “Münster”
  • Korean: “뮌스터”
  • Kotava: “Münster”
  • Kurdish: “Münster, Westfalen”
  • Ladin: “Münster”
  • Latin: “Monasterium Westphalorum”
  • Latin: “Monasterium”
  • Latvian: “Minstere”
  • Ligurian: “Münster”
  • Limburgan: “Mönster”
  • Limburgan: “Münster”
  • Lithuanian: “Miunsteris”
  • Lombard: “Münster”
  • Low German: “Mönster”
  • Low German: “Münster”
  • Luxembourgish: “Münster”
  • Macedonian: “Минстер”
  • Malagasy: “Münster”
  • Malay: “Münster”
  • Malayalam: “മ്വെൺസ്റ്റെർ”
  • Marathi: “म्युन्स्टर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Münster (Westfalen)”
  • Minangkabau: “Münster”
  • Moksha: “Мюнстэр”
  • Mongolian: “Мюнстер”
  • Narom: “Münster”
  • Neapolitan: “Münster”
  • Northern Frisian: “Münster”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Münster”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Münster”
  • Norwegian: “Münster”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Münster”
  • Ossetian: “Мюнстер”
  • Persian: “مونستر، نوردراین-وستفالن”
  • Persian: “مونستر”
  • Picard: “Münster”
  • Piemontese: “Münster”
  • Polish: “Münster”
  • Portuguese: “Münster”
  • Romanian: “Münster”
  • Romansh: “Münster”
  • Russian: “Мюнстер”
  • Sardinian: “Münster”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Munster”
  • Scots: “Münster”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Münster”
  • Serbian: “Münster”
  • Serbian: “Минстер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Münster”
  • Sicilian: “Münster”
  • Silesian: “Münster”
  • Slovak: “Münster”
  • Slovenian: “Münster”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونستر”
  • Spanish: “Münster”
  • Swahili: “Münster”
  • Swedish: “Münster”
  • Swiss German: “Münster (Westfalen)”
  • Swiss German: “Münster”
  • Tajik: “Мюнстер”
  • Tamil: “மன்ஸ்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Мүнстер”
  • Thai: “มึนส์เทอร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Münster”
  • Turkish: “Monasterium”
  • Turkish: “Mönster”
  • Turkish: “Münster (Westf)”
  • Turkish: “Münster (Westfalen)”
  • Turkish: “Münster”
  • Udmurt: “Мюнстер”
  • Ukrainian: “Мюнстер”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Münster”
  • Urdu: “میونسٹر”
  • Uzbek: “Münster”
  • Venetian: “Münster”
  • Vietnamese: “Münster”
  • Vlaams: “Münster”
  • Volapük: “Münster”
  • Walloon: “Münster”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Münster”
  • Welsh: “Münster”
  • Western Frisian: “Munster”
  • Western Frisian: “Múnster”
  • Western Panjabi: “میونسٹر”
  • Wolof: “Münster”
  • Wu Chinese: “明斯特”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒙斯達”
  • Zeeuws: “Münster”
  • Zulu: “Münster”
  • “Münster”

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