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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  • City with 260,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 48 metres (157 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ZEJ
  • …is also known as “Swiftkirchen”
  • Description: town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof and Bahnhofs Center.
Marc Schuelper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station in the German city of Gelsenkirchen.
Marc Schuelper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a shopping center.
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is a heritage site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wattenscheid and Gelsenkirchen-Schalke.
Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Stadtbezirk of the German city…
is a quarter of Gelsenkirchen.
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is the northwesternmost part of the city…

Gelsenkirchen

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Latitude
51.511° or 51° 30′ 40″ north
Longitude
7.096° or 7° 5′ 46″ east
UN/LOCODE
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: “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”
  • Emilian: “Gelsenkirchen”
  • 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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