Westphalia is a cultural region of northwestern Germany and a former province of Prussia, forming one of the three historic parts of the modern state of North Rhine-Westphalia across 20,210 square kilometers and home to roughly 7.9 million people. Organized into the Arnsberg, Detmold, and Munster government districts, it corresponds largely to the historic Prussian Province of Westphalia, which existed from 1815 until its 1946 merger with the Rhine Province.
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Source West Central German (Wikipedia)Lead sentence 2Quote, Lead sentence 2
It includes the following sub-families:
Central Franconian (Mittelfränkisch)
Ripuarian (Ripuarisch), spoken in North Rhine-Westphalia (including Kölsch) and German-speaking Belgium and a small edge of the south of the Dutch province of Limbourg.
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Introduction
Westphalia (; German: Westfalen [vɛstˈfaːlən]; Low German: Westfålen [vεs(t)ˈfɔːln]) is a cultural region of northwestern Germany, former province of Prussia, and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Wikidata: Westphalia
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