Duisburg
Duisburg is a German city in the western part of the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a metropolitan borough with a population of just under 500,000 in 2019.Places of Interest
Highlights include Duisburg Hauptbahnhof and Duisburg Zoo.
Duisburg Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
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Duisburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Duisburg in western Germany. It is situated at the meeting point of many important national and international railway lines in the Northwestern Ruhr valley.
Duisburg Zoo
Park
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The Duisburg Zoo, founded on 12 May 1934, is one of the largest zoological gardens in Germany. It is especially well known for its dolphinarium and, since 1994, for breeding koalas.
Lehmbruck Museum
Museum
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The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Center for International Sculpture is a museum in Duisburg, Germany. Sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, after whom the museum is named, make up a large part of its collection.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oberhausen and Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Oberhausen
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Oberhausen is a city of 209,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia. The city hosts an international short film festival, and its gasometer is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
Mülheim an der Ruhr
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Mülheim an der Ruhr is in the Ruhr area. With more than 50% covered by greenery and forest, the city is an attractive place between Düsseldorf and the rest of the Ruhr.
Meiderich
Suburb
Meiderich is a quarter of the city of Duisburg. It is divided into Unter-, Mittel- and Obermeiderich. Meiderich belongs to the city district Meiderich/Beeck, which started in 1975, during the course of municipal reorganization.
Duisburg
- Type: Locality with 502,000 residents
- Also known as: “05112000” and “Stadt Duisburg”
- Location: Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.4294° or 51° 25′ 46″ northLongitude
6.7744° or 6° 46′ 28″ eastPopulation
502,000Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)Open location code
9F38CQHF+QPGeoNames ID
6553023
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