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Location o Duisburg athin NRW  | |
| Coordinates: 51°26′6.53″N 6°45′45.69″E / 51.4351472°N 6.7626917°ECoordinates: 51°26′6.53″N 6°45′45.69″E / 51.4351472°N 6.7626917°E | |
| Kintra | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalie |
| Admin. region | Düsseldorf |
| Destrict | Urban destrict |
| Subdivisions | 7 boroughs, 46 suburbs |
| Govrenment | |
| • Laird Mayor | Sören Link (SPD) |
| • Governing parties | SPD / Greens |
| Area | |
| • Total | 232.82 km2 (89.89 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 31 m (102 ft) |
| Population (2021-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 495,152 |
| • Density | 2,100/km2 (5,500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal codes | 47001–47279 |
| Diallin codes | 0203 |
| Vehicle registration | DU |
| Website | www.duisburg.de |
Duisburg (German: [ˈdyːsbʊɐ̯k] (
listen)) is a German ceety in the wastren pairt o the Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet) in North Rhine-Westphalie. It is a unthirlt metropolitan burgh athin Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf. Wi the warld's biggest inland harbour an its proximity tae Düsseldorf Internaitional Airport, Duisburg haes become an important venue for commerce an steel production.
The day's ceety is a result o numerous incorporations o surroondin touns an smawer ceeties. It is the fifteent-mucklest ceety in Germany an the fift-mucklest ceety in North Rhine-Westphalie wi 495,668 residents as o 31 December 2007. The ceety is renouned for its steel industry. The last remainin coal mine closed doun in the simmer o 2009, but Duisburg haes niver been a coal-minin centre tae the same extent as ither places in the Ruhr region (German= Ruhrgebiet). Aw blast furnaces in the Ruhr are nou locatit in Duisburg. 49% o aw hot metal an 34.4% o aw pig-iron in Germany is producit here (as o 2000). It haes a muckle brewery an aw, the König Brauerei, locatit in Duisburg-Beeck, which maks the König Pilsener brand. The University o Duisburg-Essen, wi 37,000 students, ranks amang the 10 mucklest German varsities.
- ↑ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2021" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 Juin 2022.