'''Nordrhein-Westfalen''' (''North Rhine-Westphalia'') is a [[region]] in western [[Country: Germany|Germany]]. The region encompasses the bundesland with the same name and has about 18 million inhabitants. The region is the mostly populated region in Germany and the one with the most [[Zone|turfzones]].
Bordering regions are [[Region: Niedersachsen|Niedersachsen]] (''Lower Saxony'') in the northeast, [[Region: Hessen|Hessen]] (''Hesse'') in the southeast, [[Region: Rheinland-Pfalz|Rheinland-Pfalz]] (''Rhineland-Palatinate'') in the south as well as the country [[Country: Belgium|Belgium]] and (in the [[Country: Netherlands|Netherlands]]) [[Region: Limburg|Limburg]] in the west and [[Region: Gelderland|Gelderland]] and [[Region: Overijssel|Overijssel]] in the northwest. [[File: Nordrhein-Westfalen flagga.png|Flag of North Rhine-Westphalia|x120px]]
== Geographical overview ==
=== Municipalities ===
In Nordrhein-Westfalen (''North Rhine-Westphalia'') there are 24 26 [[municipalities ]] with at least one zone[[Zone|tufzone]]. Each of these corresponds to a district (''Kreis'') within the bundesland:
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| [[Municipality: Kreis Paderborn|Kreis Paderborn]]
| 1354
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| [[Municipality: Kreis Recklinghausen|Kreis Recklinghausen]]
|-
| [[Municipality: Kreis Steinfurt|Kreis Steinfurt]]
The list is updated according to the zones that existed on 2021-01-25.
== Zones ==
There are [https://turf.lundkvist.com/?country=de®ion=445&city=%23ALLA%23 550585] [[zoneZone|turfzones]] in the region, where five are counted as [[World Heritage Sites|world heritage sites]], five as eight [[winner zones]], four as [[water zones]], 16 as 19 [[train station zones]], one as a [[national park zones|national park zone]], 13 as 14 [[monument zones]], 38 as 40 [[holy zoneazones]], one as a [[summit zones|summit zone]], 34 as 36 [[bridge zones]], ten as [[castle zones]] and eight as [[ruin zones]].
''Updated 2020: 2021-0701-2325''
== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia(Wikipedia)]* [http://warded.se/turf/regionfairy.php?rid=445 Map showing current points per hour (PPH) for all zones]* [http://warded.se/turf/newzones.php?region=445 List of the 100 newest zones in Nordrhein-Westfalen]* [http://warded.se/turf/round.php?rid=445 Statistics on Wikipediazones and players in Nordrhein-Westfalen for the current round]
* [https://turf.lundkvist.com/?country=de®ion=445&city=%23ALLA%23 Map with all zones in Nordrhein-Westfalen marked]