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Herne

town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Summary

Herne is a big city[1]. Herne draws 3,054 Wikipedia views per month (big city category, ranking #229 of 300).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: association for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, townships and districts in North Rhine Westphalia[3], Emschergenossenschaft[4], Mayors for Peace[5], Städtetag Nordrhein-Westfalen[6], Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe[7]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Arnsberg Government Region[8]
  • Country: Germany[9]
  • Head of government: Frank Dudda[10]
  • Instance of: urban municipality in Germany[11], urban district of North Rhine-Westphalia[12]
  • Shares border with: Bochum[13], Recklinghausen[14], Gelsenkirchen[15], Herten[16]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Sodingen[17], Eickel[18], Herne-Mitte[19], Wanne[20]
  • Twinned administrative body: Wakefield[21], Hénin-Beaumont[22], Ometepe[23], Belgorod[24], Eisleben[25], Konin[26]
  • Postal code: 44601–44653[27]
  • Part of: Regionalverband Ruhr[28]
  • Commons category: Herne, Germany[29]
  • Licence plate code: HER[30], WAN[31]
  • Local dialing code: 02325[32], 02323[33]
  • Archives at: Herne City Archive[34]
  • Coordinate location: 51.54258, 7.21897[35]
  • Official website: https://www.herne.de/[36]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia[37]
  • Commons gallery: Herne[38]
  • Email address: mailto:info@herne.de[39], mailto:pgp@herne.de[40]
  • Described at URL: https://www.kek-online.de/medienkonzentration/mediendatenbank/#/profile/shareholder/5f16c2e1-988f-4f1c-8603-e3dd7e63fc2e[41]
  • Population: 158,240[42], 155,851[43], 156,774[44], 156,490[45], 190,561[46], 156,374[47], 156,940[48], 156,621[49], 157,368[50], 157,896[51], 156,266[52]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[53], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[54], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[55], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[56], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[57]
  • Official name: Herne[58]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia[59]
  • Female population: 79,725[60], 79,882[61]

Why It Matters

Herne has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[62] Herne is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[63]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [62] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [63] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+158240'}, {'amount': '+155851'}, {'amount': '+156774'} +8
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  2. 18w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Male population → {'amount': '+77058'}
    Member of → association for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, townships and districts in North Rhine Westphalia, Emschergenossenschaft, Mayors for Peace +2
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