Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region
Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region
Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr | |
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Coordinates: 51°27′N 6°53′E / 51.450°N 6.883°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | North Rhine-Westphalia
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Largest cities | UTC+1 (CET ) |
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (
The metropolitan area is named after the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, which are the region's defining geographical features and historically its economic backbone.
Subdivisions
The largest cities in the Rhine-Ruhr area are Cologne, with over one million inhabitants, followed by Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen, each of which has slightly more than 575,250.
Many unofficial compositions of the Rhine-Ruhr area differ from one another, while the officially defined border of the metropolitan area itself comprises
This first unofficial table here characterizes the Rhine-Ruhr area as comprising three regions, which together constitute an area much larger than officially defined.
Region | Major cities | Population | Area |
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Ruhr Metropolitan Region[3] | 5,172,745 | 4,435 km2 | |
Dortmund | 587,696 | 280 km2 | |
Essen | 588,375 | 210 km2 | |
Duisburg | 495,885 | 233 km2 | |
Bochum | 385,626 | 145 km2 | |
Gelsenkirchen | 268,102 | 105 km2 | |
Oberhausen | 212,568 | 77 km2 | |
Düsseldorf Metropolitan Region | 2,944,700 | 2,404 km2 | |
Düsseldorf | 644,280 | 217 km2 | |
Neuss | 152,731 | 99 km2 | |
Mönchengladbach | 274,090 | 170 km2 | |
Wuppertal | 351,050 | 168 km2 | |
Cologne Bonn Region[4] | 2,818,178 | 2,920 km2 | |
Cologne | 1,089,879 | 405 km2 | |
Bonn | 335,975 | 141 km2 | |
Leverkusen | 160,819 | 79 km2 | |
Rhine-Ruhr | 10,935,623 | 9,759 km2 |
Eurostat's Urban Audit splits the Rhine-Ruhr region into six
Larger Urban Zone | Major cities | Population | Area |
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Ruhr Larger Urban Zone[5][6] | 5,172,745 | 4,434 km2 | |
Dortmund | 587,696 | 280 km2 | |
Essen | 588,375 | 210 km2 | |
Duisburg | 495,885 | 233 km2 | |
Düsseldorf Larger Urban Zone[7][8] | 1,525,774 | 1,200 km2 | |
Düsseldorf | 644,280 | 217 km2 | |
Neuss | 152,731 | 99 km2 | |
Ratingen | 91,722 | 67 km2 | |
Mönchengladbach Larger Urban Zone[9][10] | 274,090 | 170 km2 | |
Mönchengladbach | 274,090 | 170 km2 | |
Wuppertal Larger Urban Zone[11][12] | 351,050 | 168 km2 | |
Wuppertal | 351,050 | 168 km2 | |
Cologne Larger Urban Zone[13][14] | 1,899,930 | 1,627 km2 | |
Cologne | 1,089,879 | 405 km2 | |
Bonn Larger Urban Zone[15][16] | 918,248 | 1,295 km2 | |
Bonn | 335,975 | 141 km2 | |
Rhine-Ruhr | 10,125,998 | 8,894 km2 |
Economy
Historically, most of the
Today, the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region accounts for roughly 15% of the
From within, Düsseldorf, Essen, and Cologne are by far the largest economic centers,
Climate
The Rhine-Ruhr area's climate is characterized by having the warmest winters in Germany, especially its western part at the
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Transportation
Air
The area has four international commercial airports, and several smaller aerodromes for general aviation.
Airport | IATA code | ICAO code | annual passenger traffic
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Düsseldorf Airport | DUS | EDDL | 25.51 M. (2019)
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Cologne Bonn Airport | CGN | EDDK | 12.39 M. (2019) |
Dortmund Airport | DTM | EDLW | 2.72 M. (2019) |
Weeze Airport | NRN | EDLV | 1.23 M. (2019) |
Road
The network of
Public transport
The rail, S-Bahn, U-Bahn and bus companies are administered through a consortium of local and regional transport lines, the
Waterways
Duisburg Inner Harbour (Duisport) and Dortmund Port are large industrial inland ports and serve as hubs along the Rhine and the German inland water transport system.
Tourism
Events
The region is host to numerous large events, comprising fun fairs and cultural events like the
The region is home to a total of 13
Landmarks
Several tourist destinations within the region attract over 12 million tourists per year.
Museums
Education
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region is home to nine universities and over 30 partly postgraduate colleges, with a total of over 300.000 students. The largest and oldest university is the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), founded in 1388 AD. Other universities include:
- the Ruhr University Bochum,
- the University of Bonn,
- the German Sport University Cologne,
- the Technical University of Dortmund,
- the University of Duisburg-Essen,
- the University of Düsseldorf,
- the FernUniversität Hagenand
- the University of Wuppertal.
Municipalities
The following register lists all municipalities that officially belong to Rhine-Ruhr area. Demographically, these municipalities include 20 cities (German: Kreisfreie Städte) each
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Municipality | Inhabitants 31 December 2009[25] |
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 |
Cologne (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 |
total/average | 6,503,676 | 3,163.74 | 2,055.69 |
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See also
- History of the Ruhr
- List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population
- List of metropolitan areas in Germany
- Ruhr Valley
- Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area
References
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Further reading
- Knapp, Wolfgang (1998). The Rhine-Ruhr area in transformation: Towards a European metropolitan region?. European Planning Studies.
- Dieleman, Frans M. (1998). Randstad, Rhine-Ruhr and Flemish diamond as one polynucleated macro-region?. Blackwell Publishing.
- Blotevogel, Hans H. (1998). The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region: Reality and discourse. European Planning Studies.
External links
- Megacities, University of Cologne
- Die Zukunft gehört der Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr, Düsseldorf Regional Government
- Rhein-Ruhr, Europäische Metropolregionen in Deutschland
- Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr - ein Kunstprodukt, Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR)