What is Nordhorn?
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox German location |type = Stadt |name = Nordhorn |image_flag = Flagge Nordhorn.svg |image_coa = Wappen Stadt Nordhorn.svg |image_skyline = Innenstadt.04.jpg |image_caption = Panoramic view of Nordhorn |coordinates = {{coord|52|25|55|N|7|04|04|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Nordhorn in NOH.svg |state = Niedersachsen |district = Grafschaft Bentheim |elevation = 23 |area = 149.64 |postal_code = 48527–48531 |area_code = 05921 |licence = NOH |Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 4 56 015 |website = [https://www.nordhorn.de/ www.nordhorn.de] |mayor = Thomas Berling<ref name=mayor>{{cite web|url=https://www.statistik.niedersachsen.de/download/169156|title=Verzeichnis der direkt gewählten Bürgermeister/-innen und Landräte/Landrätinnen|date=April 2021|publisher=[[Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen]]}}</ref> |leader_term = 2019&ndash;24 |party = SPD }} '''Nordhorn''' is a town in [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]]. It is the district seat of the [[County of Bentheim (district)|County of Bentheim]] in Lower Saxony's southwesternmost corner near the border with the Netherlands and the boundary with [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]. ==Geography== ===Place=== The town is in southwesternmost Lower Saxony, near the border with the [[Netherlands]] and the boundary with [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], on the river [[Vechte]]. The nearest major city is [[Hengelo]] in the Netherlands, some {{convert|20|km|0|abbr=off}} southwest of Nordhorn. The nearest German cities are [[Münster]], about {{convert|75|km|0|abbr=on}} to the southeast, and [[Osnabrück]], about {{convert|85|km|0|abbr=on}} to the east. The landscape in and around Nordhorn is marked by the Vechte, the Vechtesee (lake), through which the Vechte flows, and three [[canals]]: the ''Süd-Nord-Kanal'', the ''Nordhorn-Almelo-Kanal'' and the ''Ems-Vechte-Kanal''. ===Exten