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The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (German: Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants. [2] A polycentric conurbation with several major urban concentrations, the region covers an area of 7,110 square kilometres (2,750 sq mi), entirely within the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica has only one definition of "Ruhr": "a river of Germany, an important right-bank tributary of the lower Rhine". The use of the term "Ruhr" for the industrial region started in Britain only after World War I, when French and Belgian troops had occupied the Ruhr district and seized its prime industrial assets in lieu of unpaid reparations in 1923.
The four metropolitan areas of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany's most populous metropolitan region: Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, and Cologne Berlin Hamburg. Sorted alphabetically: Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region; Central German Metropolitan Region; Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region; Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Its banks are usually heavily populated and industrialized, in particular the agglomerations Cologne, Düsseldorf and Ruhr area. Here the Rhine flows through the largest conurbation in Germany, the Rhine-Ruhr region. One of the most important cities in this region is Duisburg with the largest river port in Europe (Duisport). The region ...
Map of the complete Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn system network. As of 2019, the VRR network consists of 1098 lines, [5] of which there are: in regional rail 12 S-Bahn lines (see: Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) 20 Regional-Express lines (see: List of regional railway lines in North Rhine-Westphalia)
English: Locator map of Regionalverband Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Date: 2009: ... Locator map of Regionalverband Ruhr in [[:en:North Rhine-Westphalia ...
Map of the complete Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn systems network (Outdated) A tram of the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn in Essen The Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn (German: Stadtbahn Rhein-Ruhr) is an umbrella system of all of the Stadtbahn lines included in the integrated public transport network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR), which covers the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area in western Germany.
Hamm (German pronunciation: ⓘ, Latin: Hammona) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of 2016 its population was 179,397. The city is situated between the A1 motorway and A2 motorway.