Rhine-Ruhr
Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr | |
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| Kintra |  Germany |
| State |  North Rhine-Westphalie
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| Lairgest Ceeties | Cologne Düsseldorf Dortmund Essen Duisburg Bochum |
| Area | |
| • Metro | 7110 km2 (2,750 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 494 m (1,621 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Metro | 11,316,429 inhab. |
| • Metro density | 1,422/km2 (3,684/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| GRP | 2004 |
| Nominal | €330.9 billion (3rd in EU) |
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (German: Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the lairgest metropolitan region in Germany wi aboot 10,100,000 inhabitants. It is o polycentric natur an the anely megaceety in Germany. It covers an aurie o 7,110 square kilometers an lees entirely athin the federal state o North Rhine-Westphalie. The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region spreads frae Dortmund-Bochum-Essen-Duisburg (Ruhr) in the north, tae the urban auries o the ceeties o Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf (the state caipital), Wuppertal, Cologne (the region's lairgest an Germany's fowerth lairgest ceety), an Bonn in the sooth. The location o the Rhine-Ruhr at the hert o the European "blue banana" maks it weel connectit tae ither major European ceeties an metropolitan auries lik Amsterdam an the Randstad, the Flemish Diamond an Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Region.
The metropolitan aurie is namit efter the Rhine an Ruhr rivers, whilk are the regions's definin geographical featurs an historically its economic backbone.
Municipalities
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The follaein register leets aw municipalities that offeecially belang tae Rhine-Ruhr aurie. Demographically, thir municipalities include 20 ceeties (German: ″Kreisfreie Städte″), each wi mair nor 100,000 inhabitants, an 11 destricts (German: "Kreis"), each wi a population o mair nor 250,000 inhabitants. Some destricts anerlie belang pairtly tae Rhine-Ruhr aurie. In sic a case anerlie the municipalities that belang tae the metro aurie are leetit.
| Ceeties independent o a Kreis | |||
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| Municipality | Inhabitants 31. December 2009[2] | Surface km² | Inhabitants per/ km² |
| Bochum (BO) | 376.319 | 145,44 | 2,587.45 |
| Bonn (BN) | 319.841 | 141,22 | 2,264.84 |
| Bottrop (BOT) | 117.241 | 100,61 | 1,165.3 |
| Dortmund (DO) | 581.308 | 280,39 | 2,073.21 |
| Duisburg (DU) | 491.931 | 232,81 | 2,113.01 |
| Düsseldorf (D) | 586.217 | 217,01 | 2,701.34 |
| Essen (E) | 576.259 | 210,38 | 2,739.13 |
| Gelsenkirchen (GE) | 259.744 | 104,86 | 2,477.06 |
| Hagen (HA) | 190.121 | 160,36 | 1,185.59 |
| Hamm (HAM) | 181.741 | 226,26 | 803.24 |
| Herne (HER) | 165.632 | 51,41 | 3,221.79 |
| Köln (K) | 998.105 | 405,15 | 2,463.54 |
| Krefeld (KR) | 235.414 | 137,76 | 1,708.87 |
| Leverkusen (LEV) | 160.593 | 78,85 | 2,036.69 |
| Mönchengladbach (MG) | 258.251 | 170,45 | 1,515.11 |
| Mülheim an der Ruhr (MH) | 167.471 | 91,29 | 1,834.49 |
| Oberhausen (OB) | 214.024 | 77,04 | 2,778.09 |
| Remscheid (RS) | 111.422 | 74,60 | 1,493.59 |
| Solingen (SG) | 160.992 | 89,46 | 1,799.6 |
| Wuppertal (W) | 351.050 | 168,39 | 2,084.74 |
| tot/average | 6.503.676 | 3.163,74 | 2,055.69 |
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