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Location of Girod within Westerwaldkreis district
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Montabaur |
| Mayor | Karl-Heinz Fend |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 7.46 km2 (2.88 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 265 m (869 ft) |
| Population | 1,232 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 165 /km2 (428 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | WW |
| Postal code | 56412 |
| Area code | 06485 |
| Website | www.vg-montabaur.de |
Girod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Gießen on the Eisenbach and on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
Girod has one outlying Ortsteil named Kleinholbach. The two once autonomous villages are separated by the A 3.
In 1235, Girod had its first documentary mention.
The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Girod has a request stop on the Unterwesterwaldbahn (railway, Siershahn–Montabaur–Limburg) at which stop regional trains roughly every two hours, run by the Vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Montabaur and Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), each 5 km away.