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| State: | Lower Saxony |
| Capital: | Wolfenbüttel |
| Adm. Region: | Braunschweig |
| Area: | 722.33 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 126,997 (2003) |
| pop. density: | 176 inh./km² |
| Car identification: | WF |
| Homepage: | http://www.lk-wolfenbuettel.de |
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The Oker river enters the district in the south, runs through the town of Wolfenbüttel and leaves in the northwest.
The district was created in 1832, when the Duchy of Brunswick was subdivided into 6 districts. It stayed in unchanged until 1941, when by the Salzgitter legislation 20 municipalities were removed from the district, and in return received 10 municipalities from the district Marienburg. In 1974 the district boundaries were changed again, when parts of the former district Brunswick were added to the district. Additionally some municipalities, most notably the city Bad Harzburg , were exchanged with the district Goslar.
The district has partnerships with the FrenchThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. city Cachan , the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon TaffRhondda Cynon Taff ( Welsh: Rhondda Cynon Taf is a county borough in Glamorgan, South Wales. The district borders Merthyr Tydfil and Caerphilly to the east, Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan to the south, Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot to the west and Pow in WalesFor alternate meanings, see Wales (disambiguation Wales ( Welsh: Cymru pronounced /"k@mrI/ SAMPA, km IPA, 'Kumree' approximate pronunciation) is one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom (the other three being England, Scotland and Northern Ir, and the district WrzesniaWrzesnia is a town in central Poland with 28,600 inhabitants (1995). Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Poznan Voivodship (1975-1998). Towns in Poland. in PolandThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t.