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operating -> RE: Ruhr (3/21/2014 1:55:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kirk23
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ORIGINAL: Anguille
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ORIGINAL: Udet
IMO the German city "Ruhr" should be renamed. If I am right, there is a river "Ruhr" but no city with this name.
Ruhr is the name of the Region...
I agree, it could be replaced by a city of said region.
The question is what city to replace it with Dortmund?[:)]
Ruhr
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the urban area. For the namesake river, see Ruhr (river). For other uses, see Ruhr (disambiguation).
Ruhr Metropolitan Region
Metropolregion Ruhr
Country
Germany
State
North Rhine-Westphalia
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Largest Cities
Dortmund
Essen
Duisburg
Bochum
Government
• Body
Regionalverband Ruhr
Area
• Metro
4,435 km2 (1,712 sq mi)
Population
• Metro
8,572,745
• Metro density
1,646/km2 (4,260/sq mi
Website
www.metropoleruhr.de
The Ruhr (German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːɐ̯], German: Ruhrgebiet), or the Ruhr district, Ruhr region or Ruhr valley, is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.[a] With a population density of 2,800/km² and a population of some eight and a half million, it is the largest urban agglomeration in Germany. It consists of several large, industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north. In the Southwest it borders the Bergisches Land. It is considered part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region of more than 12 million people.
From west to east, the region includes the cities of Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hagen, Dortmund, and Hamm, as well as parts of the more "rural" districts of Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna and Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. The most populous cities are Dortmund (approx. 572.000), Essen (approx. 566.000) and Duisburg (approx. 486.000). The Ruhr area doesn't have an administrative center; each city in the area has its own administration, although there exists the supracommunal "Regionalverband Ruhr" institution in Essen. Historically, the western Ruhr towns, such as Duisburg and Essen, belonged to the historic region of the Rhineland, whereas the eastern part of the Ruhr, including Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Dortmund and Hamm, were part of the region of Westphalia. Since the 19th century, these districts have grown together into a large complex with a vast industrial landscape, inhabited by some 7.3 million people (including Düsseldorf and Wuppertal). This agglomeration is the fifth largest urban area in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow, London and Paris.
I think the Ruhr designation on the CTGW map is a fair to keep as is. The above large cities are close in population, plus they have the Regionalverband Ruhr that connects them together. When CTGW was first released the Ruhr had 9 points, which I felt was just and fair due to the importance of the region. OK, the Ruhr is not a city, but the location is important, worth defending.
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