Mitte
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! bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | Sign
! bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | Map
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| align="center" | [[Image:Coat of arms of borough Mitte.svg|100px|Sign of Mitte]]
| align="center" | [[Image:Berlin_mitte.png|thumb|The location of Mitte in Berlin.]]
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| [[Area]]: || 39.47 km²
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| [[Population|Inhabitants]]: || 327,494 ''<small>(2007)</small>''
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| [[Population density]]: || 8,297 inhabitants per km²
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| Website: || [http://www.berlin-mitte.de official homepage] {{de icon}}
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | Politics
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| [[Mayor]] of Borough: || Christian Hanke ([[Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands|SPD]])
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| Parliament of Borough (''BVV''): || [[SPD]] 19, [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]] 11, [[Alliance '90/The Greens]] 11, [[The Left Party.PDS]] 7, [[Freie Demokratische Partei|FDP]] 3, [[Grey Panthers Party of Germany|The Greys]] 2, [[WASG]] 2 (last election 2006)
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[[Image:Sitzverteilung BVV Mitte 2006.png|thumb|310px]]
[[Image:Berlin Mitte.png|thumb|Mitte's localities]]
[[Image:Stadtviertel in Berlin-Mitte.png|thumb|Neighbourhoods]]
'''Berlin-Mitte''' or '''Mitte''' is the first and most central [[boroughs and localities of Berlin|borough]] of [[Berlin]] (''Mitte'' is [[German language|German]] for middle). Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core. The area includes some of the most important tourist sites of Berlin (like the [[Museum Island]], [[Brandenburg Gate]], [[Unter den Linden]] and the [[Reichstag building|Reichstag]] among others), most of which were in [[East Berlin]].
In 2001, Berlin's boroughs were [[berlin's 2001 administrative reform|reorganized]]. The former borough of Mitte, located entirely within former [[East Berlin]], was combined with the boroughs of [[Wedding (Berlin)|Wedding]] and [[Tiergarten]] (both of which belonged to [[West Berlin]]) to form the new Mitte borough.
==Localities of the Mitte borough==
The new borough of Mitte consists of six localities:
*Mitte
(the former Mitte borough)
*[[Moabit]]
*[[Hansaviertel]]
*[[Tiergarten]]
(the former Tiergarten borough)
*[[Wedding (Berlin)|Wedding]]
*[[Gesundbrunnen]]
(the former Wedding borough)
==Neighborhoods of the Mitte locality==
[[Image:View over Berlin Mitte.jpg|jpg|upright=2.5|thumb|View over Berlin Mitte borough]]
*[[Cölln]] (1)
**[[Museum Island]] (1a)
**[[Fischer Island]] (1b)
*[[Altberlin]] (2)
**[[Nikolaiviertel]] (2a)
*[[Friedrichswerder]] (3)
*[[Neukölln am Wasser]] (4)
*[[Dorotheenstadt]] (5)
*[[Friedrichstadt (Berlin)|Friedrichstadt]] (6)
*[[Luisenstadt]] (7)
*[[Stralauer Vorstadt]] (8)
*[[Alexanderplatz]] (9)
*[[Spandauer Vorstadt]] (10)
**[[Scheunenviertel]] (10a)
*[[Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt]] (11)
*[[Oranienburger Vorstadt]] (12)
*[[Rosenthaler Vorstadt]] (13)
==Twin towns==
*{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Higashiōsaka, Osaka|Higashiōsaka]], [[Japan]] since 1959
*{{flagicon|Israel}} [[Holon]], [[Israel]] since 1970
*{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Bottrop]], [[Germany]] since 1983
*{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Schwalm-Eder-Kreis]] since 1992
*{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinjuku, Tokyo|Shinjuku]], [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] since 1994
*{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Tsuwano, Shimane|Tsuwano]], [[Japan]] since 1995
*{{flagicon|France}} [[Tourcoing]], [[France]] since 1995
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[List of districts in Budapest|VI. kerület]] (Terézváros), [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] since 2005
*{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Central Administrative Okrug]], [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] since 2006
==External links==
*[http://www.berlin-mitte.de/ Official homepage] {{de icon}}
*[http://www.berlin.de/english/ Official homepage of Berlin] {{en icon}}
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