Rhine Province

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Rheinprovinz
Rhine Province
Province of Prussia
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Location of Rhine Province
The Rhine Province (red), within the Kingdom of Prussia, within the German Empire
Capital Koblenz
50°22′N, 7°36′E
History
 - Established 1822
 - Loss of Saar 1920
 - Disestablished 1946
Area
 - 1939 24,477 km² (9,451 sq mi)
Population
 - 1905 est. 6,435,778 
 - 1939 est. 7,931,942 
     Density 324.1 /km²  (839.3 /sq mi)
Political Subdivisions Aachen
Cologne
Düsseldorf
Koblenz
Trier
Today part of North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
Hesse
Baden-Württemberg
Eupen-Malmedy

The Rhine Province (German: Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1822-1946. It was created from the provinces of the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Its capital was Koblenz and in 1939 it had 8.0 million inhabitants.

In 1920, the Saar was separated from the Rhine Province and administered by the League of Nations until a plebiscite in 1935, when the region was returned to the German Reich. At the same time, in 1920, the districts of Eupen and Malmedy were transferred to Belgium (see German-Speaking Community of Belgium). In 1946, the Rhine Province was divided into the newly-founded states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Rhine Province, 1905

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Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia Territories and Provinces of Prussia (1525 – 1947)
Before 1701 Duchy of Prussia · Margraviate of Brandenburg
Farther Pomerania · Cleves (1614) · Mark · Ravensberg
Minden (1648) · Halberstadt · Magdeburg
Colonies of Brandenburg-Prussia: Groß Friedrichsburg · Arguin · Crab Island · Tertholen
After 1701 Neuchâtel · Minden-Ravensberg · Hither Pomerania · East Frisia · Silesia (1740) · Glatz (1763) · Polish Prussia (1772), Netze District (1772) · South Prussia (1793) · New East Prussia, New Silesia (1795)
Reorder after 1814–5 East Prussia & West Prussia (1824–78 joined to Province of Prussia) · Brandenburg · Pomerania · Grand Duchy of Posen (in 1848 transformed to Province of Posen) · Saxony · Silesia · Westphalia · Rhine Province (1822, Lower Rhine & Jülich-Cleves-Berg) · Hohenzollern (1850) · Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (1866–8)
Territorial reforms after 1918 Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia (1919) · Greater Berlin (1920) · Posen-West Prussia (1922)
Halle-Merseburg, Magdeburg, Kurhessen, Nassau (1944)
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