What is Menden?
{{Infobox German location |type = Stadt |name = Menden |image_photo = Menden-Rathaus4-Asio.JPG |imagesize = |image_caption = Old city hall in Menden |image_coa = DEU Menden COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|51|26|N|07|48|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Menden in MK.svg |state = Nordrhein-Westfalen |region = Arnsberg |district = Märkischer Kreis |elevation = 115 - 380 |area = 86.08 |postal_code = 58706, 58708, 58710 |area_code = 02373<br>02378 (Halingen)<br>02379 (Asbeck) |licence = MK |Gemeindeschlüssel = 05 9 62 040 |website = [http://www.menden.de/ www.menden.de] |mayor = Roland Schröder<ref>[https://www.wahlergebnisse.nrw/kommunalwahlen/2020/index_bm.shtml Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020], Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.</ref> |leader_term = 2020&ndash;25 |party = independent }} '''Menden''' (official name: ''Menden (Sauerland)'') is a town in [[Märkischer Kreis]] in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]]. About 52,000 people live there. == Twin towns == Menden is [[Town twinning|twinned]] with: * {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Aire-sur-la-Lys]], France * {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Ardres]], France * {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Braine-l'Alleud]], Belgium * {{flagicon|GRE}} [[Chalcis]], Greece * {{flagicon|GER}} [[Eisenberg, Thuringia|Eisenberg]], Germany * {{flagicon|WAL}} [[Flintshire]], Wales, United Kingdom * {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Lestrem]], France * {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Locon]], France * {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Marœuil]], France * {{flagicon|LTU}} [[Plungė District Municipality|Plungė]], Lithuania == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commonscat|Menden (Sauerland)}} * [http://www.menden.de Official website] {{in lang|de}} {{authority control}} {{europe-stub}} [[Category:Märkischer Kreis]]