query: instance_of lauter 
supports: Lauterecken is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the "Verbandsgemeinde" 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 town, and in terms of state planning is laid out as a lower centre. Paris (French: ) is the capital and most populous city of France. It has an area of and a population in 2013 of 2,229,621 within its administrative limits. The city 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. Kaiserslautern is a city 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 city is a large and permanent human settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city 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 Forest, sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park covering 1,771 km and its highest elevation is the Kalmit (673 m). Kusel, until 1865 written "Cusel", is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named "Verbandsgemeinde" and is also the district seat. A Verbandsgemeinde (plural Verbandsgemeinden) is an administrative unit in the Germanfederal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.  The Rhine (, , ) is a European river 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 river Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people. It is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about , with an average discharge of about . Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin. Other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. Veldenz is an "Ortsgemeinde"  a municipality belonging to a "Verbandsgemeinde", 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 "state") of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. Its state capital 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. 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 .
candidates: border capital city climate collective commune county district elevation family federal republic forest four human immigration member mountain municipality nature park nickname ortsgemeinde park part people principality resort town river seat settlement state status tourism town union verbandsgemeinde
answer: river