Bielefeld

Bielefeld
City
Old Townhall
Flag Coat of arms
Districts of Bielefeld
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Coordinates: 52°1′N 8°32′E / 52.017°N 8.533°E / 52.017; 8.533Coordinates: 52°1′N 8°32′E / 52.017°N 8.533°E / 52.017; 8.533
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Detmold
District	Urban district
Founded	1214
Subdivisions	10 districts
Government
• Mayor	Pit Clausen (SPD)
Area
• Total	257.8 km² (99.5 sq mi)
Elevation	118 m (387 ft)
Population (2016-12-31)^[1]
• Total	333,451
• Density	1,300/km² (3,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	33501-33739
Dialling codes	0521, 05202-05209
Vehicle registration	BI
Website	www.bielefeld.de

Bielefeld (German pronunciation: [ˈbiːləfɛlt] (listen); Low German: Builefeld) is a city in northwest Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Bielefeld has about 327,000 people living there and a university.

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1,000,000+	Berlin Cologne Hamburg Munich
500,000+	Bremen Dortmund Dresden Düsseldorf Essen Frankfurt Hanover Leipzig Nuremberg Stuttgart
200,000+	Aachen Augsburg Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Braunschweig Chemnitz Duisburg Erfurt Freiburg im Breisgau Gelsenkirchen Halle (Saale) Karlsruhe Kiel Krefeld Lübeck Magdeburg Mainz Mannheim Münster Mönchengladbach Oberhausen Rostock Wiesbaden Wuppertal
100,000+	Bergisch Gladbach Bottrop Bremerhaven Cottbus Darmstadt Erlangen Fürth Göttingen Hagen Hamm Heidelberg Heilbronn Herne Hildesheim Ingolstadt Jena Kassel Koblenz Leverkusen Ludwigshafen Moers Mülheim an der Ruhr Neuss Offenbach am Main Oldenburg Osnabrück Paderborn Pforzheim Potsdam Recklinghausen Regensburg Remscheid Reutlingen Saarbrücken Salzgitter Siegen Solingen Trier Ulm Wolfsburg Würzburg
complete list municipalities metropolitan regions cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants

v t e Urban and rural districts in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany
Urban districts	Aachen • Bielefeld • Bochum • Bonn • Bottrop • Dortmund • Duisburg • Düsseldorf • Essen • Gelsenkirchen • Hagen • Hamm • Herne • Köln (Cologne) • Krefeld • Leverkusen • Mönchengladbach • Mülheim • Münster • Oberhausen • Remscheid • Solingen • Wuppertal
Rural Districts	Aachen • Borken • Coesfeld • Düren • Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis • Euskirchen • Gütersloh • Heinsberg • Herford • Hochsauerland • Höxter • Kleve • Lippe • Märkischer Kreis • Mettmann • Minden-Lübbecke • Oberbergischer Kreis • Olpe • Paderborn • Recklinghausen • Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis • Rhein-Erft-Kreis • Rhein-Kreis Neuss • Rhein-Sieg-Kreis • Siegen-Wittgenstein • Soest • Steinfurt • Unna • Viersen • Warendorf • Wesel

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