Nordwestmecklenburg (Northwestern Mecklenburg) is a Kreis (district) in the north-western part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

It is situated on the coast of the Baltic Sea and borders on Schleswig-Holstein to the west.

[2] The district is roughly situated in a triangle between the towns of Lübeck, Rostock and Schwerin.

[3] “Party per pale Or and Azure, dexter the half crowned bull's head Sable of Mecklenburg, sinister a bishopric staff Or”.

[seat: Grevesmühlen] The following municipalities that were independently administrative within the district were (situation August 2011):