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Kusel , until 1865 written " Cusel ", is a ___MASK15___ in the Kusel district in Rhineland - Palatinate , Germany . It is the seat of the like - named " ___MASK54___ " and is also the district seat . A ___MASK54___ ( plural Verbandsgemeinden ) is an administrative unit in the Germanfederal states of Rhineland - Palatinate and Saxony - Anhalt . Kaiserslautern is a ___MASK100___ in southwest Germany , located in the " Bundesland " ( State ) of Rhineland - Palatinate (" Rheinland - Pfalz ") at the edge of the Palatinate Forest (" Pfälzerwald "). The historic centre dates to the 9th century . It is from Paris , from Frankfurt am Main , and from Luxembourg . A ___MASK100___ is a large and permanent human settlement . Although there is no agreement on how a ___MASK100___ is distinguished from a town in general English language meanings , many cities have a particular administrative , legal , or historical status based on local law . The Palatinate ___MASK33___ , sometimes also called the Palatine ___MASK33___ , is a low - mountain region in southwestern Germany , located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland - Palatinate . The ___MASK33___ is a designated ___MASK98___ covering 1 , 771 km and its highest elevation is the Kalmit ( 673 m ). Paris ( French : ) is the ___MASK7___ and most populous ___MASK100___ of France . It has an area of and a population in 2013 of 2 , 229 , 621 within its administrative limits . The ___MASK100___ is both a commune and department , and forms the centre and headquarters of the Île - de - France , or Paris Region , which has an area of and a population in 2014 of 12 , 005 , 077 , comprising 18 . 2 percent of the population of France . Veldenz is an " ___MASK3___ "  a municipality belonging to a " ___MASK54___ ", a kind of collective municipality  in the Bernkastel - Wittlich district in Rhineland - Palatinate , Germany . It is the former main seat of the County of Veldenz , once a prominent principality to which belonged 120 villages and towns now in Rhineland - Palatinate and northern Alsace . Rhineland - Palatinate ( German : " Rheinland - Pfalz ") is one of the 16 states ( German : " Länder ", lit . " countries " however better translated as " ___MASK87___ ") of the Federal Republic of Germany . It has an area of and about four million inhabitants . Its ___MASK87___ ___MASK7___ is Mainz . Rhineland - Palatinate is located in western Germany and borders Belgium , Luxembourg and France , and the German states of North Rhine - Westphalia , Hesse , Baden - Württemberg and Saarland . Germany , officially the Federal ___MASK73___ of Germany , is a federal parliamentary ___MASK73___ in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal ___MASK36___ . With about 82 million inhabitants , Germany is the most populous member ___MASK87___ of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration ___MASK21___ in the world . Germany ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Lauterecken is a ___MASK15___ in the Kusel district in Rhineland - Palatinate , Germany . It is the seat of the " ___MASK54___ " Lauterecken - Wolfstein , to which it also belongs . Lauterecken bears the nickname " Veldenzstadt ", after the comital family that once held sway here . It is also a state - recognized tourism resort ___MASK15___ , and in terms of state planning is laid out as a lower centre . The Rhine (, , ) is a European ___MASK63___ that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps , forms part of the Swiss - Austrian , Swiss - Liechtenstein , Swiss - German and then the Franco - German border , then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the Netherlands . The largest city on the ___MASK63___ Rhine is Cologne , Germany , with a population of more than 1 , 050 , 000 people . It is the second - longest ___MASK63___ in Central and Western Europe ( after the Danube ), at about , with an average discharge of about . The Lauter is a tributary to the Glan . It flows about 33 km north - northwest from Kaiserslautern , through Hirschhorn , Wolfstein and on to Lauterecken where it meets the Glan .