Gangelt is a municipality in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is on the border with the Netherlands and about 10 km east of Sittard and 10 km south-west of Heinsberg.

Its most well-known resident was cartographer Gerard Kremer, better known as Gerardus Mercator, who lived the first five or six years of his life there.

• Gangelt with 2,521 inhabitants
• Birgden with 2,977 inhabitants
• Breberen with 828 inhabitants
• Broichhoven with 168 inhabitants
• Brüxgen with 513 inhabitants
• Buscherheide with 132 inhabitants
• Harzelt with 201 inhabitants
• Hastenrath with 536 inhabitants
• Hohenbusch with 45 inhabitants
• Kievelberg with 32 inhabitants
• Kreuzrath with 504 inhabitants
• Langbroich with 807 inhabitants
• Mindergangelt with 244 inhabitants
• Nachbarheid with 120 inhabitants
• Niederbusch with 601 inhabitants
• Schierwaldenrath with 596 inhabitants
• Schümm with 93 inhabitants
• Stahe with 1,029 inhabitants
• Vinteln with 42 inhabitants

(21.02.2007)

Gangelt was first mentioned in a document in 828 as a King's property.

In February 2020, a carnival celebration caused a massive COVID-19 outbreak. In April 2020, one in seven residents was seropositive, in a sample of 500.

• Sohland an der Spree, Germany, since 1991
• Kruibeke, Belgium, since 1998
• Onderbanken, Netherlands, since 1975

• Gerardus Mercator, cartographer born 1512
• Karl-Josef Kutsch (born 1924), German physician and co-author of Großes Sängerlexikon

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