Ruhr
The Ruhr is a river in western Germany, a right tributary of the Rhine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Rhine Orange and Schifferbörse.
Rhine Orange
Work of art
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rheinorange is a sculpture erected in 1992 in Duisburg-Neuenkamp, Germany. It is located at the point where the Ruhr flows into the Rhine at 'Rheinkilometer 780', i.e.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Siedlung Rheinpreußen and Diergardt Housing Estate.
Siedlung Rheinpreußen
Neighborhood
Photo: Besenfeld, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Siedlung Rheinpreußen is a neighborhood.
Diergardt Housing Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Carschten, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Diergardt Housing Estate is a neighborhood.
Beeck
Suburb
Photo: Chrisheinzgerd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beeck is a suburb, which is situated 3 km north of Ruhr.
Ruhr
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Germany
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ruhr” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ruhr”
- Arabic: “رور”
- Aragonese: “Ruhr”
- Armenian: “Ռուր”
- Arpitan: “Ruhr”
- Asturian: “Ruhr”
- Basque: “Ruhr”
- Bavarian: “Ruhr”
- Belarusian: “рака Рур, прыток Рэйна”
- Belarusian: “Рур (прыток Рэйна”
- Belarusian: “Рур”
- Bengali: “রুহর নদী”
- Breton: “Ruhr”
- Bulgarian: “Рур”
- Catalan: “Ruhr”
- Cebuano: “Ruhr”
- Chinese: “魯爾河”
- Chinese: “鲁尔河”
- Chuvash: “Рур”
- Corsican: “Ruhr”
- Croatian: “Ruhr”
- Czech: “Rúr”
- Danish: “Ruhr”
- Dutch: “Ruhr”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر رور”
- Esperanto: “Ruhr”
- Estonian: “Ruhr”
- Finnish: “Ruhr”
- French: “Ruhr”
- Friulian: “Ruhr”
- Galician: “Río Ruhr”
- Georgian: “რური”
- German: “Ruhr”
- Greek: “Ρουρ”
- Hebrew: “רוהר”
- Hungarian: “Ruhr”
- Icelandic: “Ruhr”
- Ido: “Ruhr”
- Indonesian: “Ruhr”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Ruhr”
- Interlingua: “Ruhr”
- Interlingue: “Ruhr”
- Irish: “Ruhr”
- Italian: “Ruhr”
- Japanese: “ルール川”
- Kirghiz: “Рур”
- Kongo: “Ruhr”
- Korean: “루르강”
- Kurdish: “Ruhr”
- Ladin: “Ruhr (ruf)”
- Ladin: “Ruhr”
- Latin: “Rura”
- Latvian: “Rūra”
- Ligurian: “Ruhr”
- Limburgan: “Ruhr”
- Lithuanian: “Rūras”
- Low German: “Ruhr”
- Luxembourgish: “Ruhr”
- Macedonian: “Рур”
- Malagasy: “Ruhr”
- Malay: “Ruhr”
- Malay: “Sungai Ruhr”
- Marathi: “रूर नदी”
- Mazanderani: “روهر”
- Minangkabau: “Ruhr”
- Narom: “Ruhr”
- Neapolitan: “Ruhr”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruhr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruhr”
- Norwegian: “Ruhr”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ruhr”
- Ossetian: “Рур”
- Panjabi: “ਰੂਆ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “رور”
- Picard: “Ruhr”
- Piemontese: “Ruhr”
- Polish: “Ruhra”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ruhr”
- Portuguese: “Ruhr”
- Romanian: “Ruhr”
- Romansh: “Ruhr”
- Russian: “Рур”
- Sardinian: “Ruhr”
- Scots: “Ruhr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ruhr”
- Serbian: “Ruhr”
- Serbian: “Рур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ruhr”
- Sicilian: “Ruhr”
- Slovak: “Ruhr”
- Slovenian: “Ruhr”
- Spanish: “rio Ruhr”
- Spanish: “río Ruhr”
- Spanish: “Río Ruhr”
- Swahili: “Ruhr”
- Swedish: “Ruhr”
- Swiss German: “Ruhr”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำรัวร์”
- Turkish: “Ruhr Nehri”
- Turkish: “Ruhr”
- Ukrainian: “Рур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ruhr”
- Urdu: “رور”
- Venetian: “Ruhr”
- Vietnamese: “Ruhr”
- Vlaams: “Ruhr”
- Volapük: “Ruhr”
- Walloon: “Ruhr”
- Welsh: “Afon Ruhr”
- Western Frisian: “Ruhr”
- Wolof: “Ruhr”
- Wu Chinese: “鲁尔河”
- Zulu: “Ruhr”
- “Ruhr”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ruhrort and Homberg/Ruhrort/Baerl.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hafenmund and Duisburg-Ruhrort station.
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