Dating in Lower Saxony: How to Meet People Beyond Your Small Town

Lower Saxony has about 8.2 million people and 941 municipalities, and most of them are small: 601 (64%) have fewer than 5,000 people, and 202 have fewer than 1,000. If you live in a small one, you already know what dating close to home looks like: you've met most of the single people you'd consider, or you know someone who has.

This page is for everyone in those towns. It covers why the big dating apps make a small town's dating pool even smaller, how Amarbis lets you meet people across all of Lower Saxony instead, and, further down, every municipality in Lower Saxony by district.

Lower Saxony by town size

Size of place	Places	People
Under 1,000	202	144,000
1,000 to 4,999	399	863,000
5,000 to 24,999	276	3.2 million
25,000 or more	64	3.9 million

The typical municipality in Lower Saxony has about 2,400 people. Its 64 places of 25,000 or more, led by Hannover (548,000), Braunschweig (252,000) and Oldenburg (Oldenburg) (175,000), are home to about 3.9 million of the state's 8.2 million people; everyone else lives in the smaller towns and the countryside.

Why your hometown still sets the limits in Lower Saxony

Most of Lower Saxony is within an hour of a bigger town, but that doesn't help as much as it should on a distance-ranked app. It builds your deck from the people closest to you first, so a smaller town's deck is mostly that town and its neighbours, and the people a little farther out come much later, if they come at all.

Why the nearest city is out of reach on the big apps

Dating in a small town is hard, and meeting someone in the nearest city can be harder. Many dating apps lean on distance to decide who you see, and Tinuiti's analysis of Tinder's algorithm says proximity is a key factor in who it shows you. When someone in Hannover or Braunschweig opens a distance-ranked app, the people who live near them come first. You live farther away, so you land behind their neighbours in their deck, whatever your photos and profile say.

That's the small-town problem twice over: at home you keep seeing the same people, and in the city you're barely seen.

How Amarbis is different

You choose your region

On Amarbis you choose the region you meet people from instead of being limited to whoever lives closest. Choose Lower Saxony and your pool is the whole state, about 8.2 million people, whether you live in Hannover or a village of a few hundred. A member in a town of 1,000 has the same state-wide pool as a member in Hannover.

Ranking isn't based on distance

On Amarbis, ranking isn't based on distance. Choose Lower Saxony as your region and the person you'd like to meet in Hannover isn't shown their next-door neighbour ahead of you because of where you live. It's the opposite of the proximity problem above, and it matters most to the people the big apps leave behind.

No distance limits, and the whole world if you want it

Amarbis has no distance limits, so you aren't limited to Lower Saxony either. You can widen your region to the neighbouring states or meet someone in another country: Amarbis is an international dating app, the app speaks more than 50 languages, and built-in chat translation helps when you don't share one. The km only matter once you both want to meet.

Real people, reviewed by real people

Every member has a real face photo, photos are screened before anyone sees them, and every profile on Amarbis is reviewed by a real person. When your local pool is small, every fake or abandoned profile takes up a bigger share of what you see, so that review step is worth more in a small town than in a big city.

Free to join

Joining is free, with no credit card. The free plan gives you 25 likes a day and unlimited messaging with your matches, so you can find out whether Amarbis works for your town before you pay anything. See plans and pricing for what the paid plans add.

How to start from a small town in Lower Saxony

Sign up free and build a profile that sounds like you: a clear photo of your face and one specific thing about life in your town. Our profile tips show what works.
Set your region to Lower Saxony, or wider if you like.
Message first. One good question about where someone lives works better than "hey", and a conversation can start long before anyone plans a trip.
When you both want to meet, pick a public place about halfway, tell a friend where you're going, and follow our safe-meeting checklist.

Built by someone from a small town

Amarbis's founder, Nick, is from Boardman, Oregon, a small American town of about 4,500 people. The small-town dating problem on this page is one he knows first-hand: a deck full of people you already know, and a nearby city that ranks its own neighbours ahead of you. Amarbis is built so that where you live in Lower Saxony doesn't decide who you can meet.

Every municipality in Lower Saxony

All 941 municipalities in Lower Saxony by district. Wherever yours is on this list, everything on this page applies to you: choose Lower Saxony as your region on Amarbis and every place below is in your pool.

Ammerland

Apen: 12,359 people
Bad Zwischenahn: 30,051 people
Edewecht: 23,061 people
Rastede: 23,247 people
Westerstede: 23,984 people
Wiefelstede: 16,406 people

Aurich

Aurich: 43,375 people
Baltrum: 573 people
Berumbur: 2,743 people
Dornum: 4,563 people
Großefehn: 14,246 people
Großheide: 8,623 people
Hage: 6,534 people
Hagermarsch: 404 people
Halbemond: 945 people
Hinte: 7,247 people
Ihlow: 12,597 people
Juist: 1,542 people
Krummhörn: 11,723 people
Leezdorf: 1,850 people
Lütetsburg: 740 people
Marienhafe: 2,504 people
Norden: 25,210 people
Norderney: 5,990 people
Osteel: 2,117 people
Rechtsupweg: 2,115 people
Südbrookmerland: 18,541 people
Upgant-Schott: 3,777 people
Wiesmoor: 13,610 people
Wirdum: 1,039 people

Braunschweig, Kreisfreie Stadt

Braunschweig: 252,066 people

Celle

Adelheidsdorf: 2,841 people
Ahnsbeck: 1,673 people
Beedenbostel: 1,001 people
Bergen: 13,520 people
Bröckel: 1,998 people
Celle: 70,293 people
Eicklingen: 3,473 people
Eldingen: 2,013 people
Eschede: 5,787 people
Faßberg: 6,172 people
Hambühren: 10,882 people
Hohne: 1,735 people
Lachendorf: 6,577 people
Langlingen: 2,214 people
Lohheide: 730 people
Nienhagen: 6,831 people
Südheide: 11,683 people
Wathlingen: 6,567 people
Wienhausen: 4,080 people
Wietze: 8,730 people
Winsen (Aller): 13,552 people

Cloppenburg

Barßel: 13,706 people
Bösel: 8,965 people
Cappeln (Oldenburg): 7,461 people
Cloppenburg: 37,280 people
Emstek: 12,545 people
Essen (Oldenburg): 9,083 people
Friesoythe: 23,234 people
Garrel: 15,867 people
Lastrup: 7,660 people
Lindern (Oldenburg): 5,060 people
Löningen: 13,823 people
Molbergen: 9,567 people
Saterland: 14,313 people

Cuxhaven

Armstorf: 691 people
Belum: 774 people
Beverstedt: 13,694 people
Bülkau: 825 people
Cadenberge: 4,210 people
Cuxhaven: 48,713 people
Geestland: 31,713 people
Hagen im Bremischen: 11,264 people
Hechthausen: 3,570 people
Hemmoor: 9,007 people
Hollnseth: 849 people
Ihlienworth: 1,503 people
Lamstedt: 3,391 people
Loxstedt: 16,633 people
Mittelstenahe: 579 people
Neuenkirchen (Cuxhaven): 1,316 people
Neuhaus (Oste): 1,089 people
Nordleda: 1,004 people
Oberndorf: 1,365 people
Odisheim: 479 people
Osten: 1,726 people
Osterbruch: 462 people
Otterndorf: 7,555 people
Schiffdorf: 15,007 people
Steinau: 797 people
Stinstedt: 525 people
Wanna: 2,296 people
Wingst: 3,380 people
Wurster Nordseeküste: 17,421 people

Delmenhorst, Kreisfreie Stadt

Delmenhorst: 78,979 people

Diepholz

Affinghausen: 879 people
Asendorf (Diepholz): 2,903 people
Bahrenborstel: 1,088 people
Barenburg: 1,213 people
Barnstorf: 6,725 people
Barver: 1,083 people
Bassum: 16,794 people
Borstel: 1,185 people
Brockum: 1,085 people
Bruchhausen-Vilsen: 9,270 people
Dickel: 493 people
Diepholz: 17,608 people
Drebber: 3,096 people
Drentwede: 1,016 people
Ehrenburg: 1,512 people
Eydelstedt: 1,833 people
Freistatt: 449 people
Hemsloh: 552 people
Hüde: 1,256 people
Kirchdorf: 2,313 people
Lembruch: 1,254 people
Lemförde: 3,486 people
Maasen: 444 people
Marl: 661 people
Martfeld: 2,885 people
Mellinghausen: 1,050 people
Neuenkirchen (Diepholz): 1,233 people
Quernheim: 510 people
Rehden: 2,438 people
Scholen: 816 people
Schwaförden: 1,506 people
Schwarme: 2,722 people
Siedenburg: 1,279 people
Staffhorst: 520 people
Stemshorn: 736 people
Stuhr: 34,176 people
Sudwalde: 1,009 people
Sulingen: 13,430 people
Syke: 24,956 people
Twistringen: 12,952 people
Varrel: 1,511 people
Wagenfeld: 7,236 people
Wehrbleck: 758 people
Wetschen: 1,953 people
Weyhe: 31,958 people

Emden, Kreisfreie Stadt

Emden: 50,659 people

Emsland

Andervenne: 895 people
Bawinkel: 2,723 people
Beesten: 1,706 people
Bockhorst: 1,007 people
Breddenberg: 846 people
Börger: 2,912 people
Dersum: 1,496 people
Dohren (Emsland): 1,179 people
Dörpen: 5,762 people
Emsbüren: 10,735 people
Esterwegen: 5,596 people
Freren: 5,193 people
Fresenburg: 985 people
Geeste: 12,263 people
Gersten: 1,216 people
Groß Berßen: 731 people
Handrup: 807 people
Haren (Ems): 24,719 people
Haselünne: 13,663 people
Heede: 2,635 people
Herzlake: 4,944 people
Hilkenbrook: 794 people
Hüven: 543 people
Klein Berßen: 1,169 people
Kluse: 1,834 people
Lahn: 887 people
Langen: 1,455 people
Lathen: 7,086 people
Lehe: 1,021 people
Lengerich: 2,858 people
Lingen (Ems): 57,075 people
Lorup: 3,263 people
Lähden: 4,834 people
Lünne: 2,111 people
Meppen: 36,137 people
Messingen: 1,081 people
Neubörger: 1,617 people
Neulehe: 843 people
Niederlangen: 1,373 people
Oberlangen: 1,014 people
Papenburg: 38,841 people
Rastdorf: 1,072 people
Renkenberge: 680 people
Rhede (Ems): 4,600 people
Salzbergen: 8,015 people
Schapen: 2,496 people
Spahnharrenstätte: 1,585 people
Spelle: 10,178 people
Stavern: 1,079 people
Surwold: 4,353 people
Sustrum: 1,417 people
Sögel: 8,422 people
Thuine: 1,869 people
Twist: 9,751 people
Vrees: 1,916 people
Walchum: 1,704 people
Werlte: 10,588 people
Werpeloh: 1,161 people
Wettrup: 545 people
Wippingen: 1,000 people

Friesland (DE)

Bockhorn: 9,019 people
Jever: 14,913 people
Sande: 8,699 people
Schortens: 20,932 people
Varel: 24,335 people
Wangerland: 9,197 people
Wangerooge: 1,217 people
Zetel: 12,318 people

Gifhorn

Adenbüttel: 1,831 people
Barwedel: 1,009 people
Bergfeld: 881 people
Bokensdorf: 1,262 people
Brome: 3,311 people
Calberlah: 5,399 people
Dedelstorf: 1,179 people
Didderse: 1,313 people
Ehra-Lessien: 2,102 people
Gifhorn: 43,941 people
Groß Oesingen: 2,051 people
Hankensbüttel: 4,530 people
Hillerse: 2,472 people
Isenbüttel: 6,422 people
Jembke: 2,124 people
Leiferde: 4,383 people
Meine: 8,628 people
Meinersen: 8,364 people
Müden (Aller): 5,338 people
Obernholz: 821 people
Osloß: 2,121 people
Parsau: 1,999 people
Ribbesbüttel: 2,155 people
Rötgesbüttel: 2,481 people
Rühen: 6,084 people
Sassenburg: 12,055 people
Schwülper: 7,499 people
Schönewörde: 897 people
Sprakensehl: 1,193 people
Steinhorst: 1,254 people
Tappenbeck: 1,608 people
Tiddische: 1,264 people
Tülau: 1,507 people
Ummern: 1,544 people
Vordorf: 3,137 people
Wagenhoff: 1,160 people
Wahrenholz: 3,728 people
Wasbüttel: 1,806 people
Wesendorf: 5,647 people
Weyhausen: 2,791 people
Wittingen: 11,388 people

Goslar

Bad Harzburg: 21,503 people
Braunlage: 5,495 people
Clausthal-Zellerfeld: 15,436 people
Goslar: 50,253 people
Langelsheim: 14,960 people
Liebenburg: 7,653 people
Seesen: 19,185 people

Grafschaft Bentheim

Bad Bentheim: 16,321 people
Emlichheim: 7,648 people
Engden: 419 people
Esche: 593 people
Georgsdorf: 1,232 people
Getelo: 499 people
Gölenkamp: 592 people
Halle (Grafschaft Bentheim): 669 people
Hoogstede: 2,933 people
Isterberg: 614 people
Itterbeck: 1,720 people
Laar: 2,091 people
Lage: 1,052 people
Neuenhaus: 10,650 people
Nordhorn: 55,619 people
Ohne: 589 people
Osterwald: 1,178 people
Quendorf: 630 people
Ringe: 1,981 people
Samern: 805 people
Schüttorf: 13,387 people
Uelsen: 5,830 people
Wielen: 493 people
Wietmarschen: 12,766 people
Wilsum: 1,635 people

Göttingen

Adelebsen: 6,181 people
Bad Grund (Harz): 8,059 people
Bad Lauterberg im Harz: 10,258 people
Bad Sachsa: 7,428 people
Bilshausen: 2,236 people
Bodensee: 787 people
Bovenden: 14,095 people
Bühren: 538 people
Dransfeld: 4,381 people
Duderstadt: 20,320 people
Ebergötzen: 1,941 people
Elbingerode: 430 people
Friedland: 14,544 people
Gieboldehausen: 3,969 people
Gleichen: 8,693 people
Göttingen: 120,261 people
Hann. Münden: 23,418 people
Hattorf am Harz: 3,968 people
Herzberg am Harz: 12,783 people
Hörden am Harz: 931 people
Jühnde: 943 people
Krebeck: 1,026 people
Landolfshausen: 1,081 people
Niemetal: 1,454 people
Obernfeld: 942 people
Osterode am Harz: 21,382 people
Rhumspringe: 1,773 people
Rollshausen: 921 people
Rosdorf: 12,310 people
Rüdershausen: 827 people
Scheden: 1,828 people
Seeburg: 1,609 people
Seulingen: 1,319 people
Staufenberg: 7,710 people
Waake: 1,272 people
Walkenried: 4,407 people
Wollbrandshausen: 653 people
Wollershausen: 465 people
Wulften am Harz: 1,809 people

Hameln-Pyrmont

Aerzen: 10,544 people
Bad Münder am Deister: 17,511 people
Bad Pyrmont: 19,596 people
Coppenbrügge: 7,088 people
Emmerthal: 9,887 people
Hameln: 57,916 people
Hessisch Oldendorf: 18,556 people
Salzhemmendorf: 9,279 people

Harburg

Appel: 2,087 people
Asendorf (Harburg): 2,132 people
Bendestorf: 2,282 people
Brackel: 1,990 people
Buchholz in der Nordheide: 41,290 people
Dohren (Harburg): 1,272 people
Drage: 4,352 people
Drestedt: 846 people
Egestorf: 2,785 people
Eyendorf: 1,178 people
Garlstorf: 1,179 people
Garstedt: 1,496 people
Gödenstorf: 1,093 people
Halvesbostel: 770 people
Handeloh: 2,521 people
Hanstedt (Harburg): 6,197 people
Harmstorf: 814 people
Heidenau: 2,365 people
Hollenstedt: 3,819 people
Jesteburg: 7,995 people
Kakenstorf: 1,543 people
Königsmoor: 605 people
Marschacht: 3,985 people
Marxen: 1,440 people
Moisburg: 2,093 people
Neu Wulmstorf: 22,699 people
Otter: 1,813 people
Regesbostel: 1,075 people
Rosengarten: 13,863 people
Salzhausen: 4,943 people
Seevetal: 42,880 people
Stelle: 11,596 people
Tespe: 4,902 people
Toppenstedt: 2,218 people
Tostedt: 14,835 people
Undeloh: 1,016 people
Vierhöfen: 920 people
Welle: 1,232 people
Wenzendorf: 1,513 people
Winsen (Luhe): 36,499 people
Wistedt: 1,765 people
Wulfsen: 1,718 people

Heidekreis

Ahlden (Aller): 1,615 people
Bad Fallingbostel: 12,119 people
Bispingen: 6,513 people
Buchholz (Aller): 2,182 people
Böhme: 943 people
Eickeloh: 783 people
Essel: 1,197 people
Frankenfeld: 509 people
Gilten: 1,224 people
Grethem: 652 people
Hademstorf: 848 people
Hodenhagen: 3,139 people
Häuslingen: 790 people
Lindwedel: 2,805 people
Munster: 15,413 people
Neuenkirchen (Heidekreis): 5,684 people
Osterheide: 2,098 people
Rethem (Aller): 2,387 people
Schneverdingen: 19,169 people
Schwarmstedt: 6,032 people
Soltau: 22,040 people
Walsrode: 30,890 people
Wietzendorf: 4,188 people

Helmstedt

Bahrdorf: 1,831 people
Beierstedt: 354 people
Danndorf: 2,581 people
Frellstedt: 837 people
Gevensleben: 612 people
Grafhorst: 1,170 people
Grasleben: 2,455 people
Groß Twülpstedt: 2,802 people
Helmstedt: 25,633 people
Jerxheim: 1,087 people
Königslutter am Elm: 15,860 people
Lehre: 12,029 people
Mariental: 959 people
Querenhorst: 501 people
Rennau: 744 people
Räbke: 771 people
Schöningen: 11,167 people
Söllingen: 1,560 people
Süpplingen: 1,766 people
Süpplingenburg: 646 people
Velpke: 4,999 people
Warberg: 831 people
Wolsdorf: 928 people

Hildesheim

Alfeld (Leine): 18,679 people
Algermissen: 8,154 people
Bad Salzdetfurth: 13,523 people
Bockenem: 9,785 people
Diekholzen: 6,243 people
Duingen: 4,918 people
Eime: 2,570 people
Elze: 9,252 people
Freden (Leine): 4,669 people
Giesen: 9,747 people
Gronau (Leine): 10,882 people
Harsum: 11,368 people
Hildesheim: 102,325 people
Holle: 7,076 people
Lamspringe: 5,743 people
Nordstemmen: 12,150 people
Sarstedt: 19,896 people
Schellerten: 7,901 people
Sibbesse: 5,747 people
Söhlde: 7,943 people

Holzminden

Arholzen: 360 people
Bevern: 3,865 people
Bodenwerder: 5,618 people
Boffzen: 2,591 people
Brevörde: 585 people
Deensen: 1,406 people
Delligsen: 7,617 people
Derental: 580 people
Dielmissen: 777 people
Eimen: 817 people
Eschershausen: 3,568 people
Fürstenberg: 1,034 people
Golmbach: 884 people
Halle (Holzminden): 1,513 people
Hehlen: 1,810 people
Heinade: 846 people
Heinsen: 742 people
Heyen: 447 people
Holenberg: 397 people
Holzen: 508 people
Holzminden: 20,217 people
Kirchbrak: 947 people
Lauenförde: 2,390 people
Lenne: 672 people
Lüerdissen: 394 people
Negenborn: 669 people
Ottenstein: 1,220 people
Pegestorf: 401 people
Polle: 1,162 people
Stadtoldendorf: 5,713 people
Vahlbruch: 397 people
Wangelnstedt: 559 people

Leer

Borkum: 5,012 people
Brinkum: 820 people
Bunde: 7,664 people
Detern: 2,858 people
Filsum: 2,199 people
Firrel: 829 people
Hesel: 4,793 people
Holtland: 2,291 people
Jemgum: 3,624 people
Leer (Ostfriesland): 35,163 people
Moormerland: 24,088 people
Neukamperfehn: 1,860 people
Nortmoor: 1,817 people
Ostrhauderfehn: 11,811 people
Rhauderfehn: 18,620 people
Schwerinsdorf: 700 people
Uplengen: 12,119 people
Weener: 15,916 people
Westoverledingen: 21,740 people

Lüchow-Dannenberg

Bergen an der Dumme: 1,419 people
Clenze: 2,247 people
Damnatz: 313 people
Dannenberg (Elbe): 8,316 people
Gartow: 1,516 people
Gorleben: 630 people
Gusborn: 1,272 people
Göhrde: 559 people
Hitzacker (Elbe): 5,126 people
Höhbeck: 671 people
Jameln: 1,096 people
Karwitz: 773 people
Küsten: 1,369 people
Langendorf: 708 people
Lemgow: 1,369 people
Luckau (Wendland): 594 people
Lübbow: 829 people
Lüchow (Wendland): 9,588 people
Neu Darchau: 1,405 people
Prezelle: 429 people
Schnackenburg: 521 people
Schnega: 1,293 people
Trebel: 1,001 people
Waddeweitz: 896 people
Woltersdorf: 892 people
Wustrow (Wendland): 2,748 people
Zernien: 1,629 people

Lüneburg, Landkreis

Adendorf: 11,053 people
Amelinghausen: 4,153 people
Amt Neuhaus: 5,535 people
Artlenburg: 1,816 people
Bardowick: 7,117 people
Barendorf: 2,491 people
Barnstedt: 765 people
Barum (Lüneburg, Landkreis): 2,170 people
Betzendorf: 1,098 people
Bleckede: 9,692 people
Boitze: 339 people
Brietlingen: 3,525 people
Dahlem: 643 people
Dahlenburg: 3,499 people
Deutsch Evern: 3,776 people
Echem: 1,084 people
Embsen: 2,830 people
Handorf: 2,170 people
Hittbergen: 968 people
Hohnstorf (Elbe): 2,367 people
Kirchgellersen: 2,624 people
Lüdersburg: 680 people
Lüneburg: 77,511 people
Mechtersen: 696 people
Melbeck: 3,505 people
Nahrendorf: 1,198 people
Neetze: 2,930 people
Oldendorf (Luhe): 1,069 people
Radbruch: 2,283 people
Rehlingen: 754 people
Reinstorf: 1,283 people
Reppenstedt: 7,658 people
Rullstorf: 1,935 people
Scharnebeck: 3,477 people
Soderstorf: 1,457 people
Südergellersen: 1,776 people
Thomasburg: 1,363 people
Tosterglope: 612 people
Vastorf: 836 people
Vögelsen: 2,472 people
Wendisch Evern: 1,815 people
Westergellersen: 2,304 people
Wittorf: 1,530 people

Nienburg (Weser)

Balge: 1,686 people
Binnen: 1,010 people
Bücken: 2,125 people
Diepenau: 3,979 people
Drakenburg: 1,830 people
Estorf (Nienburg (Weser)): 1,736 people
Eystrup: 3,580 people
Gandesbergen: 532 people
Hassel (Weser): 1,839 people
Haßbergen: 1,687 people
Heemsen: 1,754 people
Hilgermissen: 2,091 people
Hoya: 4,020 people
Hoyerhagen: 997 people
Husum: 2,342 people
Hämelhausen: 573 people
Landesbergen: 2,734 people
Leese: 1,721 people
Liebenau: 3,926 people
Linsburg: 998 people
Marklohe: 4,771 people
Nienburg (Weser): 32,423 people
Pennigsehl: 1,230 people
Raddestorf: 1,815 people
Rehburg-Loccum: 10,188 people
Rodewald: 2,599 people
Rohrsen: 1,115 people
Schweringen: 833 people
Steimbke: 2,420 people
Steyerberg: 5,278 people
Stolzenau: 7,693 people
Stöckse: 1,266 people
Uchte: 5,064 people
Warmsen: 3,208 people
Warpe: 708 people
Wietzen: 2,117 people

Northeim

Bad Gandersheim: 9,519 people
Bodenfelde: 3,016 people
Dassel: 9,754 people
Einbeck: 30,725 people
Hardegsen: 7,644 people
Kalefeld: 6,025 people
Katlenburg-Lindau: 7,114 people
Moringen: 6,956 people
Northeim: 29,337 people
Nörten-Hardenberg: 8,683 people
Uslar: 14,166 people

Oldenburg (Oldenburg), Kreisfreie Stadt

Oldenburg (Oldenburg): 174,629 people

Oldenburg, Landkreis

Beckeln: 775 people
Colnrade: 797 people
Dötlingen: 6,524 people
Dünsen: 1,220 people
Ganderkesee: 32,149 people
Groß Ippener: 989 people
Großenkneten: 16,160 people
Harpstedt: 4,791 people
Hatten: 14,688 people
Hude (Oldb): 16,303 people
Kirchseelte: 1,149 people
Prinzhöfte: 626 people
Wardenburg: 16,518 people
Wildeshausen: 21,424 people
Winkelsett: 508 people

Osnabrück, Kreisfreie Stadt

Osnabrück: 166,960 people

Osnabrück, Landkreis

Alfhausen: 4,267 people
Ankum: 8,214 people
Bad Essen: 16,377 people
Bad Iburg: 10,574 people
Bad Laer: 9,203 people
Bad Rothenfelde: 8,614 people
Badbergen: 4,761 people
Belm: 14,255 people
Berge: 3,609 people
Bersenbrück: 8,844 people
Bippen: 3,078 people
Bissendorf: 15,028 people
Bohmte: 13,019 people
Bramsche: 31,801 people
Dissen am Teutoburger Wald: 10,730 people
Eggermühlen: 1,862 people
Fürstenau: 9,833 people
Gehrde: 2,644 people
Georgsmarienhütte: 32,022 people
Glandorf: 6,699 people
Hagen am Teutoburger Wald: 13,510 people
Hasbergen: 11,018 people
Hilter am Teutoburger Wald: 10,461 people
Kettenkamp: 1,779 people
Melle: 47,387 people
Menslage: 2,511 people
Merzen: 3,907 people
Neuenkirchen (Osnabrück, Landkreis): 4,650 people
Nortrup: 3,039 people
Ostercappeln: 10,208 people
Quakenbrück: 13,947 people
Rieste: 3,701 people
Voltlage: 1,822 people
Wallenhorst: 22,855 people

Osterholz

Axstedt: 1,227 people
Grasberg: 8,088 people
Hambergen: 5,706 people
Holste: 1,419 people
Lilienthal: 20,293 people
Lübberstedt: 691 people
Osterholz-Scharmbeck: 30,717 people
Ritterhude: 14,942 people
Schwanewede: 20,599 people
Vollersode: 3,044 people
Worpswede: 9,761 people

Peine

Edemissen: 12,522 people
Hohenhameln: 9,636 people
Ilsede: 22,080 people
Lengede: 14,433 people
Peine: 51,521 people
Vechelde: 18,496 people
Wendeburg: 10,482 people

Region Hannover

Barsinghausen: 34,955 people
Burgdorf (Region Hannover): 31,302 people
Burgwedel: 20,481 people
Garbsen: 61,594 people
Gehrden: 15,329 people
Hannover: 548,186 people
Hemmingen: 18,885 people
Isernhagen: 24,459 people
Laatzen: 42,560 people
Langenhagen: 55,746 people
Lehrte: 45,097 people
Neustadt am Rübenberge: 45,325 people
Pattensen: 14,678 people
Ronnenberg: 24,505 people
Seelze: 34,798 people
Sehnde: 24,167 people
Springe: 29,258 people
Uetze: 20,392 people
Wedemark: 30,060 people
Wennigsen (Deister): 14,233 people
Wunstorf: 41,666 people

Rotenburg (Wümme)

Ahausen: 1,908 people
Alfstedt: 853 people
Anderlingen: 865 people
Basdahl: 1,442 people
Bothel: 2,475 people
Breddorf: 1,050 people
Bremervörde: 19,023 people
Brockel: 1,407 people
Bötersen: 1,099 people
Bülstedt: 775 people
Deinstedt: 642 people
Ebersdorf: 1,056 people
Elsdorf: 2,066 people
Farven: 637 people
Fintel: 2,985 people
Gnarrenburg: 9,200 people
Groß Meckelsen: 515 people
Gyhum: 2,461 people
Hamersen: 547 people
Hassendorf: 1,195 people
Heeslingen: 4,932 people
Hellwege: 1,138 people
Helvesiek: 864 people
Hemsbünde: 1,219 people
Hemslingen: 1,486 people
Hepstedt: 1,016 people
Hipstedt: 1,225 people
Horstedt: 1,269 people
Kalbe: 601 people
Kirchtimke: 969 people
Kirchwalsede: 1,244 people
Klein Meckelsen: 921 people
Lauenbrück: 2,615 people
Lengenbostel: 511 people
Oerel: 1,932 people
Ostereistedt: 951 people
Reeßum: 1,819 people
Rhade: 1,079 people
Rotenburg (Wümme): 22,789 people
Sandbostel: 799 people
Scheeßel: 13,019 people
Seedorf: 939 people
Selsingen: 3,642 people
Sittensen: 6,261 people
Sottrum: 6,763 people
Stemmen: 821 people
Tarmstedt: 4,190 people
Tiste: 891 people
Vahlde: 691 people
Vierden: 751 people
Visselhövede: 9,747 people
Vorwerk: 1,009 people
Westertimke: 446 people
Westerwalsede: 769 people
Wilstedt: 1,781 people
Wohnste: 778 people
Zeven: 14,376 people

Salzgitter, Kreisfreie Stadt

Salzgitter: 105,039 people

Schaumburg

Ahnsen: 993 people
Apelern: 2,424 people
Auetal: 6,217 people
Auhagen: 1,293 people
Bad Eilsen: 2,563 people
Bad Nenndorf: 11,629 people
Beckedorf: 1,439 people
Buchholz: 739 people
Bückeburg: 19,754 people
Hagenburg: 4,564 people
Haste: 2,781 people
Heeßen: 1,422 people
Helpsen: 1,932 people
Hespe: 2,051 people
Heuerßen: 896 people
Hohnhorst: 2,181 people
Hülsede: 1,064 people
Lauenau: 4,341 people
Lauenhagen: 1,299 people
Lindhorst: 4,507 people
Luhden: 1,191 people
Lüdersfeld: 1,101 people
Meerbeck: 1,848 people
Messenkamp: 722 people
Niedernwöhren: 1,999 people
Nienstädt: 4,464 people
Nordsehl: 677 people
Obernkirchen: 9,407 people
Pohle: 891 people
Pollhagen: 1,063 people
Rinteln: 25,626 people
Rodenberg: 6,525 people
Sachsenhagen: 1,973 people
Seggebruch: 1,723 people
Stadthagen: 22,924 people
Suthfeld: 1,476 people
Wiedensahl: 937 people
Wölpinghausen: 1,600 people

Stade

Agathenburg: 1,399 people
Ahlerstedt: 5,637 people
Apensen: 4,569 people
Balje: 927 people
Bargstedt: 2,134 people
Beckdorf: 2,884 people
Bliedersdorf: 1,848 people
Brest: 767 people
Burweg: 1,008 people
Buxtehude: 41,256 people
Deinste: 2,173 people
Dollern: 2,238 people
Drochtersen: 11,284 people
Düdenbüttel: 1,024 people
Engelschoff: 774 people
Estorf (Stade): 1,490 people
Fredenbeck: 6,585 people
Freiburg (Elbe): 1,838 people
Großenwörden: 489 people
Grünendeich: 1,870 people
Guderhandviertel: 1,084 people
Hammah: 3,249 people
Harsefeld: 14,789 people
Heinbockel: 1,514 people
Himmelpforten: 5,729 people
Hollern-Twielenfleth: 3,421 people
Horneburg: 7,080 people
Jork: 12,395 people
Kranenburg: 789 people
Krummendeich: 502 people
Kutenholz: 4,767 people
Mittelnkirchen: 1,109 people
Neuenkirchen (Stade): 892 people
Nottensdorf: 1,620 people
Oederquart: 1,006 people
Oldendorf: 3,145 people
Sauensiek: 2,598 people
Stade: 48,708 people
Steinkirchen: 1,796 people
Wischhafen: 3,080 people

Uelzen

Altenmedingen: 1,465 people
Bad Bevensen: 9,983 people
Bad Bodenteich: 4,635 people
Barum (Uelzen): 781 people
Bienenbüttel: 6,984 people
Ebstorf,Klosterflecken: 5,416 people
Eimke: 844 people
Emmendorf: 733 people
Gerdau: 1,422 people
Hanstedt (Uelzen): 937 people
Himbergen: 1,674 people
Jelmstorf: 758 people
Lüder: 1,234 people
Natendorf: 706 people
Oetzen: 1,160 people
Rosche: 2,014 people
Rätzlingen: 468 people
Römstedt: 801 people
Schwienau: 680 people
Soltendieck: 1,030 people
Stoetze: 610 people
Suderburg: 4,691 people
Suhlendorf: 2,377 people
Uelzen: 33,991 people
Weste: 951 people
Wrestedt: 6,456 people
Wriedel: 2,287 people

Vechta

Bakum: 6,811 people
Damme: 17,686 people
Dinklage: 13,468 people
Goldenstedt: 10,238 people
Holdorf: 7,584 people
Lohne (Oldenburg): 27,949 people
Neuenkirchen-Vörden: 9,245 people
Steinfeld (Oldenburg): 10,509 people
Vechta: 34,145 people
Visbek: 10,116 people

Verden

Achim: 32,961 people
Blender: 2,927 people
Dörverden: 9,175 people
Emtinghausen: 1,559 people
Kirchlinteln: 10,339 people
Langwedel: 14,729 people
Ottersberg: 13,386 people
Oyten: 16,420 people
Riede: 3,092 people
Thedinghausen: 8,308 people
Verden (Aller): 28,453 people

Wesermarsch

Berne: 6,985 people
Brake (Unterweser): 15,102 people
Butjadingen: 6,041 people
Elsfleth: 9,187 people
Jade: 5,977 people
Lemwerder: 7,125 people
Nordenham: 26,410 people
Ovelgönne: 5,420 people
Stadland: 7,514 people

Wilhelmshaven, Kreisfreie Stadt

Wilhelmshaven: 76,247 people

Wittmund

Blomberg: 1,885 people
Dunum: 1,086 people
Esens: 7,517 people
Eversmeer: 845 people
Friedeburg: 10,366 people
Holtgast: 1,848 people
Langeoog: 1,756 people
Moorweg: 869 people
Nenndorf: 780 people
Neuharlingersiel: 1,067 people
Neuschoo: 1,213 people
Ochtersum: 917 people
Schweindorf: 738 people
Spiekeroog: 858 people
Stedesdorf: 1,702 people
Utarp: 643 people
Werdum: 749 people
Westerholt: 2,722 people
Wittmund: 20,835 people

Wolfenbüttel

Baddeckenstedt: 3,153 people
Burgdorf (Wolfenbüttel): 2,187 people
Börßum: 2,881 people
Cramme: 809 people
Cremlingen: 13,266 people
Dahlum: 634 people
Denkte: 2,781 people
Dettum: 1,187 people
Dorstadt: 685 people
Elbe: 1,529 people
Erkerode: 845 people
Evessen: 1,253 people
Flöthe: 1,098 people
Haverlah: 1,583 people
Hedeper: 476 people
Heere: 1,065 people
Heiningen: 674 people
Kissenbrück: 1,757 people
Kneitlingen: 784 people
Ohrum: 602 people
Remlingen-Semmenstedt: 2,379 people
Roklum: 429 people
Schladen-Werla: 8,638 people
Schöppenstedt: 5,639 people
Sehlde: 895 people
Sickte: 6,110 people
Uehrde: 861 people
Vahlberg: 708 people
Veltheim (Ohe): 1,005 people
Winnigstedt: 700 people
Wittmar: 1,108 people
Wolfenbüttel: 53,034 people

Wolfsburg, Kreisfreie Stadt

Wolfsburg: 127,256 people

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