Ruhr

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Ruhr Metropolitan Region Metropolregion Ruhr
map o the Ruhr metropolitan region athin Germany
Kintra	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalie
Maistmuckle cities	Dortmund Essen Duisburg Bochum
Govrenment
• Bodi	Regionalverband Ruhr
Area
• Metro	4435 km2 (1,712 sq mi)
Highest elevation	441 m (1,447 ft)
Lowest elevation	13 m (43 ft)
Population
• Metro	5,172,745
• Metro density	1646/km2 (4,260/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
GRP	2007
Nominal	€ 136.3 billion[1]
Website	www.metropoleruhr.de

The Ruhr (German Ruhrgebiet, colloquial Ruhrpott, Kohlenpott, Pott or Revier), is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalie, Germany.^[3] Wi 4435 km² an a population o some 5.2 million (2009), it is the lairgest urban agglomeration in Germany. It consists o several lairge, umwhile industrial ceeties bordered bi the rivers Ruhr tae the sooth, Rhine tae the wast, an Lippe tae the north. In the Southwest it borders tae the Bergisches Land. It is considered pairt o the lairger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region o mair nor 12 million fowk.

Syne the Ruhr is polycentric, coordinates shawn are general in natur an sae can be uised tae focus on the entire region o the Ruhr: 51°30′N 7°30′E / 51.500°N 7.500°E / 51.500; 7.500.

Frae wast tae east, the region includes the ceeties o Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hagen, Dortmund, an Hamm, as weel as pairts o the mair "rural" destricts Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna an Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Historically, the wastren Ruhr towns, siclik Duisburg an Essen, belangit tae the historic region o the Rhineland, whauras the eastren pairt o the Ruhr, includin Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Dortmund an Hamm, wur pairt o the region o Westphalie. Syne the 19t century, thir destricts hae grown thegither intae a muckle complex wi a vast industrial landscape, inhabitit bi some 7.3 million fowk (whan includin Düsseldorf an Wuppertal). It is the fowert maistmuckle urban area in Europe efter Moscow, Lunnon an Paris.

For 2010, the Ruhr region wis ane o the European Caipitals o Cultur.

1. ↑ metropoleruhr.de
2. ↑ heichest: Wengeberg in Breckerfeld, lawest: Xanten
3. ↑ "Few foreigners know that in fact 'the Ruhr' is the name of a 150-mile-long Rhine right-bank tributary which, after meandering through the industrial basin now named after it, enters its parent near Europe's greatest inland port, Duisburg." See German International, Volume 10 (1966), p. 30. "The territory through which the Ruhr flows is called the Ruhr district." See Edmund Jan Osmańczyk and Anthony Mango, Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: A to F, 2003, p.1970. "Many industries were built in the Ruhr region, where both iron ore and coal were found." Kathryn Lane, Germany: The Land (2001), p. 24.