Gangelt is a municipality in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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.

(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.

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