North Rhine-Westphalia
Ruhr
Arnsberg

Bochum

Bochum is a city in the area of the state in . This former mining town of 363,000 people is known for its university, which is one of the largest in Germany.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruhrstadion and Bochum Hauptbahnhof.

Stadium
Photo: Vonovia Unternehmenskommunikation, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
is a football in Bochum, . It is the home ground for the VfL Bochum and has a capacity of 27,599. It was known as rewirpowerSTADION from 2006 to 2016, also for sponsorship reasons.

Railway station
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is a railway station for the city of Bochum in western . In its current incarnation, it was built from 1955 to 1957 and is one of the most notable 1950s railway stations in Germany.

Planetarium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bochum-Innenstadt and Hamme.

Suburb
Photo: Arztde, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Innenstadt is a part of the city of Bochum in , , including Gleisdreieck. It is located in the Ruhr area, the most populous German agglomeration.

Suburb
Bochum is a city in . With a population of 372,348, it is the sixth-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous federal state, and the 16th-largest city in Germany.

Suburb
is a quarter of the Westphalian city of Bochum in . It is north of the city centre. has a tram line running from to .

Bochum

Latitude
51.4826° or 51° 28′ 57″ north
Longitude
7.2179° or 7° 13′ 5″ east
Population
371,000
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
IATA airport code
QBO
United Nations Location Code
DE BOM
Open location code
9F39F6M9+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240099833
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2947416
Wiki­data ID
Q2103
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bochum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bochum, Duitsland”
  • Arabic: “بوخوم”
  • Aragonese: “Bochum”
  • Armenian: “Բոխում”
  • Arpitan: “Bochum”
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  • Azerbaijani: “Boxum”
  • Balinese: “Bochum”
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  • Belarusian: “Бохум”
  • Bengali: “বোকাম”
  • Bengali: “বোখুম”
  • Breton: “Bochum”
  • Bulgarian: “Бохум”
  • Catalan: “Bochum”
  • Cebuano: “Bochum (kapital sa distrito)”
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  • Central Kurdish: “بۆخوم”
  • Chinese: “Bochum”
  • Chinese: “波鴻”
  • Chinese: “波鸿”
  • Corsican: “Bochum”
  • Croatian: “Bochum”
  • Czech: “Bochum”
  • Danish: “Bochum”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bochum”
  • Dutch: “Bochum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوخوم”
  • Esperanto: “Bochum”
  • Estonian: “Bochum”
  • Finnish: “Bochum”
  • French: “Bochum”
  • Friulian: “Bochum”
  • Galician: “Bochum”
  • Georgian: “ბოხუმი”
  • German: “Bochum”
  • Greek: “Μπόχουμ”
  • Gujarati: “બોકમ”
  • Hebrew: “בוכום”
  • Hindi: “बोशुम”
  • Hungarian: “Bochum”
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  • Ido: “Bochum”
  • Indonesian: “Bochum”
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  • Irish: “Bochum”
  • Italian: “Bochum”
  • Japanese: “ボーフム”
  • Kannada: “ಬೋಖುಂ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೋಚಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бохум”
  • Kirghiz: “Бохум”
  • Kongo: “Bochum”
  • Korean: “보훔”
  • Kotava: “Bochum”
  • Kurdish: “Bochum”
  • Ladin: “Bochum”
  • Latin: “Baucum”
  • Latin: “Bochemia”
  • Latin: “Bochumia”
  • Latvian: “Bohuma”
  • Ligurian: “Bochum”
  • Limburgan: “Bochum”
  • Limburgan: “Boochem”
  • Lithuanian: “Bochumas”
  • Low German: “Baukem”
  • Low German: “Bochum”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bochum”
  • Macedonian: “Бохум”
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  • Malay: “Bochum”
  • Marathi: “बोखुम”
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  • Mongolian: “Бохум”
  • Narom: “Bochum”
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bochum”
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  • Norwegian: “Bochum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bochum”
  • Old Saxon: “Bōkhêm”
  • Ossetian: “Бохум”
  • Persian: “بوخوم”
  • Picard: “Bochum”
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  • Polish: “Bochum”
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  • Pushto: “بوخوم”
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  • Russian: “Бохум”
  • Sardinian: “Bochum”
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  • Scots: “Bochum”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bochum”
  • Serbian: “Bochum”
  • Serbian: “Бохум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bochum”
  • Sicilian: “Bochum”
  • Silesian: “Bochum”
  • Sinhala: “බෝචම්”
  • Slovak: “Bochum”
  • Slovenian: “Bochum”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوخوم”
  • Spanish: “Bochum”
  • Swahili: “Bochum”
  • Swedish: “Bochum”
  • Swiss German: “Bochum”
  • Tagalog: “Bochum”
  • Tamil: “போசும்”
  • Tatar: “Бохум”
  • Telugu: “బోకుమ్”
  • Thai: “โบคุม”
  • Tumbuka: “Bochum”
  • Turkish: “Bochum”
  • Ukrainian: “Бохум”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bochum”
  • Urdu: “بوخم”
  • Uzbek: “Boxum”
  • Venetian: “Bochum”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Bochum”
  • Welsh: “Bochum”
  • Western Frisian: “Bochum”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوخم”
  • Wolof: “Bochum”
  • Wu Chinese: “波鸿”
  • Yue Chinese: “波鴻”
  • Zulu: “Bochum”
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