Cloppenburg is a town in
Lower Saxony,
Germany, capital of
Cloppenburg District and part of
Oldenburg Münsterland. It lies 38 km south-south-west of
Oldenburg in the
Weser-Ems region between
Bremen and the
Dutch border. Cloppenburg is not far from the A1, the major motorway connecting the Ruhr area to Bremen and Hamburg. Another major road is the federal highway B213 being the shortest link from the Netherlands to the A1 and thus to Bremen and Hamburg.