Dithmarschen – DEF05

EU regions: Germany > Schleswig-Holstein > Schleswig-Holstein > Dithmarschen

Indicator	Period	Value
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	112

More on wikipedia wikidata Q2947 on OpenStreetMap Dithmarschen slovensky: DEF05

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	133 514
population density	2023	95.4
old-age dependency ratio	2024	42.3

From Wikipedia:

Dithmarschen (German pronunciation: [ˈdɪtmaʁʃən], Low Saxon pronunciation: [ˈdɪtmaːʃn̩], archaic English: Ditmarsh, Danish: Ditmarsken, Medieval Latin: Tedmarsgo) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Flensburg, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, and Steinburg, by the state of Lower Saxony (district of Stade, from which it is separated by the Elbe river), and by the North Sea. From the 13th century up to 1559 Dithmarschen was an independent peasants' republic within the Holy Roman Empire and a member of the Hanseatic League.

Geography

The district is located on the North Sea. It is embraced by the Elbe estuary to the south and the Eider estuary to the north. Today it forms a kind of artificial island, surrounded by the Eider river in the north and the Kiel Canal in both the east and southeast. It is a rather flat countryside that was once full of fens and swamps.

To the north it borders on Nordfriesland and Schleswig-Flensburg, to the east on Rendsburg-Eckernförde, and in the southeast on Steinburg. Its landward boundaries have remained basically the same since the times of Charlemagne. Land reclamation, however, has almost doubled the size of Dithmarschen as land has been wrested from the sea.

Other: Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Neumünster, Dithmarschen, Lübeck, District of Duchy of Lauenburg, Mittelangeln, Plön District, Flensburg, Stormarn, Nordfriesland district, Ostholstein, Pinneberg, Rendsburg, Steinburg, Segeberg District

Neighbours: Rendsburg, Nordfriesland district, Mittelangeln, Steinburg

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Dithmarschen – DEF05, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PDEF05, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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