Mettingen is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Neighbour villages of Mettingen are Recke in the west, Neuenkirchen, (Lower Saxony) in the north, Ibbenbüren in the south and Westerkappeln in the east.

The production site of the frozen cakes manufacturer Coppenrath & Wiese is based in Mettingen.

Until 2018 Mettingen had one of the last two active coal mines in Germany.

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