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Rhineland

/ˈɹaɪnlænd/ · name

Meaning

  1. An unincorporated community in Knox County, Texas, United States.
  2. A rural municipality in southern Manitoba, Canada.
  3. All of Germany's territories on the Rhine.
  4. A village in Montgomery County, Missouri, United States.
  5. An area on both sides of the river Rhine, in the west of Germany. Roughly equivalent to the former Prussian Rhine Province, now the greater part of Rhineland-Palatinate plus the south-western half of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  6. A hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.

Etymology / origin

From the German Rheinland, equivalent to English Rhine + -land.

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