Ruhr Region
urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Facts
13 properties- Instance of
- conurbation, metropolitan area, functional urban area[4][5]
- Official website
- www.metropoleruhr.de[12]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 51.500°, 7.500°
- Area
- +4435[21]
- Described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[19][20]
- IPA transcription
- ˈʁuːɐ̯ɡəˌbiːt[13]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- North Rhine-Westphalia[2]
- Nominal GDP
- +136000000000[22]
- Significant event
- RUHR.2010 – Kulturhauptstadt Europas[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ruhr
en Ruhr region
en Ruhr district
en Ruhr area
en Ruhrgebiet
ar حوض الرور
ar منطقة الرور
cs Porúří
da Ruhrgebiet
da Ruhr-distriktet
da Ruhr-området
da Ruhrområdet
da Ruhrdistriktet
de Rheinisch-Westfälisches Industriegebiet
de Ruhrpott
de Ruhrregion
de Kohlenpott
de Ruhrland
el Περιοχή του Ρουρ
el Κοιλάδα του Ρουρ
🔖 Identifiers · 41
- VIAF cluster ID
- 315149363
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85115785
- GND ID
- 4050926-6
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Innenhafen Duisburg.jpg ↗
- BBC Things ID
- 7fd0a40f-5690-492b-8c43-004c6d8249ac
- BHCL UUID
- 66b325bf-d916-4641-be71-1180dd96a267
- FAST ID
- 1333687
- FactGrid item ID
- jazz rock
- Freebase ID
- /m/0nl21
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -1853766
- GeoNames ID
- 2843198
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Ruhr-området
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- Harper's tag
- ruhr-germany-region, ruhr-region
- Interlingual Index ID
- i82995
- Joconde location ID
- T84-4326
- Klexikon article ID
- Ruhrgebiet
- Lemmy community ID
- ruhrgebiet@palaver.p3x.de
- Mastodon instance URL
- ruhr.social
- Museum-digital place ID
- 4211
- NDL Authority ID
- 00629421
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge128565
- NWBib ID
- N20
- National Library of Ireland ID
- vtls001188622
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007548658305171
- National Library of Latvia ID
- 000049300
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3969965
- Open Library subject ID
- place:ruhr_(region), place:ruhr_(germany_:_region)
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 1800298
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 25357
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
- 30112-6
- SVKKL authority ID
- 0452464-Poruri-Nemecko
- Subreddit
- ruhrgebiet
- Topic's main category
- Category:Ruhr
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- ruhr
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- ua3rby5p
- WikiKids ID
- Ruhrgebied
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 08793971-n
- YSO ID
- 205511
- Yale LUX ID
- place/f0b17a03-b94d-4d51-bd17-c5a6c9fd2ec9
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Berlin
2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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