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Kerken

municipality in Kleve District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
AdministrativeArea municipality_without_town_privileges_in_germany Q243301

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality without town privileges in Germany
Official website
www.kerken.de[9]

Location

Country
Germany[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.457°, 6.374°[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kleve District[3]

Population and size

Area
+58, +58.17[19][20]
Elevation above sea level
+32[18]
Population
13k (10k–13k, n=8)[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Codes

Local dialing code
02833[7]
Postal code
47647[5]
More facts +3
Hashtag
Kerken[21]
Licence plate code
KLE[6]
Member of
Städte- und Gemeindebund Nordrhein-Westfalen[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kerken fa کرکن ru Керкен zh 凯尔肯 zh-hant 凱爾肯
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
236536881
GND ID
4354792-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Aldekerk central station, Kerken.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
45802
FactGrid item ID
Heinrich Friedjung
Freebase ID
/m/0bfkbt
GNS Unique Feature ID
14408
GeoNames ID
3205898
German municipality key
05154028
German regional key
051540028028
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7005167
Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
KERKENJO31EK
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Klimadashboard.de region ID
254193b2-b624-4bdf-ad8c-4988b72b0b88
MusicBrainz area ID
bb68d2e5-38c8-46a8-828c-e0a579aed5c5
NWBib ID
Kerken
OpenStreetMap relation ID
168002
RKD thesaurus ID
56101
Topic's main category
Category:Kerken
Trismegistos Geo ID
24883
UN/LOCODE
DERKE
Who's on First ID
101810265
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Berlin 2026-09-26 A/ADM4 · DE GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Country 1
Germany
FactGrid item ID 1
Heinrich Friedjung
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kleve District
NWBib ID 1
Kerken
People who died here 1
Klaus Mietusch
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kleve District
← FactGrid item ID 1
Boonville
← NWBib ID 1
Kerken
← Terminus location 1
Bundesstraße 510
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Summary

Kerken is a municipality without town privileges in Germany[1].

Related Entities

Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+12458'}, {'amount': '+10280'}, {'amount': '+12524'} +5
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51891|batch #51891]]: einwohnerzahlen2025"
  2. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+12458'}, {'amount': '+10280'}, {'amount': '+12524'} +5
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39115|batch #39115]]: einwohnerzahlen2024"
  3. 21w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Aliases → —
    Population → {'amount': '+12458'}, {'amount': '+10280'}, {'amount': '+12524'} +5
    Topic's main category → Category:Kerken
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/35991|batch #35991]]"
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