Gelsenkirchen

Gelsenkirchen is a city in . Gelsenkirchen, like neighbouring cities, is refining its image promoting its industrial culture. Old refineries have been remodelled into event halls and ice skating rinks.
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  • Type: City with 260,000 residents
  • Description: town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “Swiftkirchen”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof and Bahnhofs Center.

Railway station
Photo: Marc Schuelper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station in the German city of Gelsenkirchen. It connects the city to the regional and long-distance rail service of Deutsche Bahn and other railway companies in Germany.

Shopping center
Photo: Marc Schuelper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a shopping center.

Heritage site
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is a heritage site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wattenscheid and Gelsenkirchen-Schalke.

Suburb
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is a Stadtbezirk of the German city of , in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until its incorporation into Bochum in 1975, was an independent town with a long history dating back to its first recorded mention in 880.

Suburb
is a quarter of Gelsenkirchen. In its current boundaries, it has an area of 2.968 square kilometres and 21,510 inhabitants. Thanks to the local football club FC Schalke 04, the district is at least as well known nationally as the city of Gelsenkirchen.

Suburb
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is the northwesternmost part of the city of in the Ruhr area in in . The population used to speak Westphalian, but now standard German is the commonly used language.

Gelsenkirchen

Latitude
51.511° or 51° 30′ 40″ north
Longitude
7.096° or 7° 5′ 46″ east
Population
260,000
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
IATA airport code
ZEJ
United Nations Location Code
DE GEK
Open location code
9F39G36W+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240052693
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2921466
Wiki­data ID
Q2765
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gelsenkirchen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Albanian: “Gelzenkirheni”
  • Arabic: “غلزنكيرشن”
  • Arabic: “غيلسنكيرشن”
  • Aragonese: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Armenian: “Գելզենկիրխեն”
  • Asturian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gelzenkirxen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Helzenkirxen”
  • Balinese: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Basque: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Bavarian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Belarusian: “Гельзенкірхен”
  • Belarusian: “Гельзэнкірхэн”
  • Belarusian: “Гэльзэнкірхэн”
  • Bengali: “গেলচেনকিকেন”
  • Bengali: “গেলসেনকির্খেন”
  • Breton: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Bulgarian: “Гелзенкирхен”
  • Catalan: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Cebuano: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen”
  • Central Kurdish: “گێلزنکیرشن”
  • Chechen: “Гельзенкирхен”
  • Chinese: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Chinese: “盖尔森基兴”
  • Chinese: “蓋爾森基興”
  • Croatian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Czech: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Danish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Dutch: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جلزنكيرشن”
  • Esperanto: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Estonian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Finnish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • French: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Galician: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Georgian: “გელზენკირხენი”
  • German: “Gelsenkirchen-Buer”
  • German: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Greek: “Γκελζενκίρχεν”
  • Greek: “Γκελσενκίρχεν”
  • Gujarati: “ગેલ્સેનકિચેન”
  • Hausa: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Hebrew: “גלזנקירכן”
  • Hindi: “गेलसेनकिर्चेन”
  • Hungarian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Icelandic: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Ido: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Indonesian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Interlingua: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Interlingue: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Irish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Italian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Japanese: “ゲルゼンキルヒェン”
  • Japanese: “ゲルゼンキルヘン”
  • Kannada: “ಗೆಲ್ಸೆನ್ಕಿರ್ಖೇನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗೆಲ್ಸೆನ್ಕಿರ್ಚೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Гельзенкирхен”
  • Kirghiz: “Гельзенкирхен”
  • Korean: “겔젠키르헨”
  • Kotava: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Kurdish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Ladin: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Latin: “Gelsenkircha”
  • Latvian: “Gelzenkirhene”
  • Limburgan: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Lithuanian: “Gelzenkirchenas”
  • Lombard: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Low German: “Gelsenkiärken”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Macedonian: “Гелзенкирхен”
  • Malagasy: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Malay: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Malayalam: “ഗെൽസെൻകിർചെൻ”
  • Marathi: “गेल्झनकिर्शेन”
  • Marathi: “गेल्सनकर्शन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Mingrelian: “გელზენკირხენი”
  • Moksha: “Гэльзэнкирхэн”
  • Mongolian: “Гельзенкирхен”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Norwegian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Ossetian: “Гельзенкирхен”
  • Persian: “گلزنکیرشن”
  • Polish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Portuguese: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Romanian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Russian: “Гельзенкирхен”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Scots: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Serbian: “Gelzenkirhen”
  • Serbian: “Гелзенкирхен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Silesian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Sinhala: “ගෙල්සෙන්කර්චෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Slovenian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قلزنکیرشن”
  • Spanish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Swahili: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Swedish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Tamil: “கெல்சென்கிர்சென்”
  • Tatar: “Гелзенкирхен”
  • Telugu: “గెలిసేంకిర్చేన్”
  • Thai: “เกลเซนเคียร์เคิน”
  • Thai: “เก็ลเซินเคียร์เชิน”
  • Tumbuka: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Turkish: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Ukrainian: “Гельзенкірхен”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґельзенкірхен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Urdu: “جیلسینکیرچین”
  • Urdu: “گلیزن کیرچن”
  • Uzbek: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Venetian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Vietnamese: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Volapük: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Welsh: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Western Frisian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • Western Panjabi: “گلسنکرچن”
  • Wu Chinese: “盖尔森基兴”
  • Yue Chinese: “蓋爾森基興”

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