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The '''Rhine-Ruhr Area''' ({{lang-de|Rhein-Ruhr}}) in [[Germany]] is one of the largest [[metropolitan area]]s in Europe, with about 11,800,000 inhabitants. It lies completely within the federal state [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] and spreads from the Dortmund-Essen-Duisburg ([[Ruhr area]]) [[Megalopolis (city type)|megalopolis]] in the north, to the urban areas of the cities of [[Mönchengladbach]], [[Düsseldorf]] (the state capital), [[Wuppertal]], [[Cologne]] (the region's largest city), and [[Bonn]] in the south. |
The '''Rhine-Ruhr Area''' ({{lang-de|Rhein-Ruhr}}) in [[Germany]] is one of the largest [[metropolitan area]]s in Europe, with about 11,800,000 inhabitants. It lies completely within the federal state [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] and spreads from the Dortmund-Essen-Duisburg ([[Ruhr area]]) [[Megalopolis (city type)|megalopolis]] in the north, to the urban areas of the cities of [[Mönchengladbach]], [[Düsseldorf]] (the state capital), [[Wuppertal]], [[Cologne]] (the region's largest city), and [[Bonn]] in the south. |
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Revision as of 17:21, 21 November 2008
The Rhine-Ruhr Area (German: Rhein-Ruhr) in Germany is one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe, with about 11,800,000 inhabitants. It lies completely within the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia and spreads from the Dortmund-Essen-Duisburg (Ruhr area) megalopolis in the north, to the urban areas of the cities of Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf (the state capital), Wuppertal, Cologne (the region's largest city), and Bonn in the south.
There are many different definitions of what belongs to the Rhine-Ruhr area, but the metropolitan area itself has officially defined borders with Hamm in the east, Mönchengladbach in the west and Bonn in the south and the small city Wesel as its northernmost point. The northern border is similar to the one of the Ruhr area.
Largest and most important cities of the Rhine-Ruhr Area
Cologne 989,766
Dortmund 587,830
Düsseldorf 581,858 (state capital)
Essen 581,406
Duisburg 502,522
Cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants
Ruhr area (Westphalian part)
Dortmund (population: 587,830)
Ruhr area (Rhenish part)
Duisburg (population: 502,522)
Essen (population: 581,406)
Rhine Valley
Düsseldorf (provincial capital) (population: 581,858)
Cologne (population: 989,766)
Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants
Ruhr area (Westphalian part)
Bochum, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen, Hagen, Hamm, Herne, Iserlohn, Recklinghausen, Witten
Ruhr area (Rhenish part)
Moers, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen
Bergisches Land
Bergisch Gladbach, Remscheid, Solingen, Wuppertal
Rhine Valley
Bonn, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mönchengladbach, Moers, Neuss
Sources