Why is it die Landespolizei?

Landespolizei ends in -ei, and almost all nouns ending in -ei are feminine: in a German dictionary, 91% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ei
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Germany: entirety of the police institutions of a federal state

[1] Deutschland: Gesamtheit der polizeilichen Einrichtungen eines Bundeslandes

Examples

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Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Landespolizei die Landespolizeien
Genitiv der Landespolizei der Landespolizeien
Dativ der Landespolizei den Landespolizeien
Akkusativ die Landespolizei die Landespolizeien

Pronunciation

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