Rhine-Ruhr
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rhine-Ruhr Area (German: Rhein-Ruhr) in Germany ranks among the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with 11,800,00 people. 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. The map at right is approximately 130 kilometers (80 miles) from north to south.
Contents |
[edit] 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
[edit] Cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants
[edit] Ruhr area (Westphalian part)
Dortmund (population: 587,830)
[edit] Ruhr area (Rhenish part)
Duisburg (population: 502,522)
Essen (population: 581,406)
[edit] Rhine Valley
Düsseldorf (provincial capital) (population: 581,858)
Cologne (population: 989,766)
[edit] Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants
[edit] Ruhr area (Westphalian part)
Bochum, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen, Hagen, Hamm, Herne, Iserlohn, Recklinghausen, Witten
[edit] Ruhr area (Rhenish part)
Moers, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen
[edit] Bergisches Land
Bergisch-Gladbach, Remscheid, Solingen, Wuppertal
[edit] Rhine Valley
Bonn, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mönchengladbach, Moers, Neuss
