Mitte

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Area:	39.47 km²
Inhabitants:	327,494 (2007)
Population density:	8,297 inhabitants per km²
Website:	official homepage
Politics
Mayor of Borough:	Christian Hanke (SPD)
Parliament of Borough (BVV):	SPD 19, CDU 11, Alliance '90/The Greens 11, The Left Party.PDS 7, FDP 3, The Greys 2, WASG 2 (last election 2006)

Berlin-Mitte or Mitte is the first and most central borough of Berlin (Mitte is German for centre). 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 among others), most of which were in East Berlin.

In 2001, Berlin's boroughs were reorganized. The former borough of Mitte, located entirely within former East Berlin, was combined with the boroughs of 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)

(the former Tiergarten borough)

(the former Wedding borough)

Neighborhoods of the Mitte locality

Cölln (1)

Museum Island (1a)
Fischer Island (1b)

Altberlin (2)

Nikolaiviertel (2a)

Scheunenviertel (10a)

Twin towns

Higashiōsaka, Japan since 1959
Holon, Israel since 1970
Bottrop, Germany since 1983
Schwalm-Eder-Kreis since 1992
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan since 1994
Tsuwano, Japan since 1995
Tourcoing, France since 1995
VI. kerület (Terézváros), Budapest, Hungary since 2005
Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia since 2006

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