North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne Lowland
Cologne District

Leverkusen

Leverkusen is a city in , Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of , and to the north the state capital, .
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  • Type: City with 161,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen and Bayer Cross Leverkusen.

Shopping center
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a shopping center.

Photo: H005, Public domain.
Bayer AG is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.

Stadium
Photo: Hobby-Fotograf2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a stadium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Opladen and Köln-Rheinkassel.

Suburb
, now a district of Leverkusen, used to be the capital of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis until 1975. is located 15 kilometres northeast from on the railway to Wuppertal.

Village
Photo: Elya, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Leverkusen

Latitude
51.0325° or 51° 1′ 57″ north
Longitude
6.9881° or 6° 59′ 17″ east
Population
161,000
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
IATA airport code
ZOA
United Nations Location Code
DE LEV
Open location code
9F382XJQ+X6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1651889631
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2878234
Wiki­data ID
Q2938
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Leverkusen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Leverkusen”
  • Albanian: “Leverkusen”
  • Arabic: “ليفركوزن”
  • Aragonese: “Leverkusen”
  • Armenian: “Լևերկուզեն”
  • Arpitan: “Leverkusen”
  • Asturian: “Leverkusen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leverkuzen”
  • Balinese: “Leverkusen”
  • Basque: “Leverkusen”
  • Bavarian: “Leverkusen”
  • Belarusian: “Леверкузен”
  • Belarusian: “Левэркузэн”
  • Bengali: “লেভারকুজেন”
  • Bosnian: “Leverkusen”
  • Breton: “Leverkusen”
  • Bulgarian: “Леверкузен”
  • Catalan: “Leverkusen”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Leverkusen”
  • Cebuano: “Leverkusen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Leverkusen”
  • Chechen: “Леверкузен”
  • Chinese: “Leverkusen”
  • Chinese: “利華古遜”
  • Chinese: “勒沃库森”
  • Chinese: “勒沃庫森”
  • Chinese: “莱沃库森”
  • Corsican: “Leverkusen”
  • Croatian: “Leverkusen”
  • Czech: “Leverkusen”
  • Danish: “Leverkusen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Leverkusen”
  • Dutch: “Leverkusen”
  • Esperanto: “Leverkusen”
  • Estonian: “Leverkusen”
  • Finnish: “Leverkusen”
  • French: “Leverkusen”
  • Friulian: “Leverkusen”
  • Galician: “Leverkusen”
  • Georgian: “ლევერკუზენი”
  • German: “Leverkusen”
  • Greek: “Λεβερκούζεν”
  • Gujarati: “લિવરક્યુસન”
  • Hebrew: “לברקוזן”
  • Hindi: “लेवरकुसेन”
  • Hungarian: “Leverkusen”
  • Icelandic: “Leverkusen”
  • Ido: “Leverkusen”
  • Indonesian: “Leverkusen”
  • Interlingua: “Leverkusen”
  • Interlingue: “Leverkusen”
  • Irish: “Leverkusen”
  • Italian: “Leverkusen”
  • Japanese: “レーヴァークーゼン”
  • Japanese: “レーバークーゼン”
  • Japanese: “レバークーゼン”
  • Javanese: “Leverkusen”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿವರ್ಕುಸೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Leverkuzen”
  • Kazakh: “Леверкузен”
  • Kölsch: “Lävverkuuse”
  • Kongo: “Leverkusen”
  • Korean: “레버쿠젠”
  • Kotava: “Leverkusen”
  • Kurdish: “Leverkusen”
  • Ladin: “Leverkusen”
  • Latin: “Leverkusen”
  • Latin: “Leverkusum”
  • Latvian: “Leverkūzene”
  • Ligurian: “Leverkusen”
  • Limburgan: “Leverkusen”
  • Limburgan: “Leverkuuse”
  • Lithuanian: “Lėverkuzenas”
  • Low German: “Leverkusen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Leverkusen”
  • Macedonian: “Леверкузен”
  • Malagasy: “Leverkusen”
  • Malay: “Leverkusen”
  • Malayalam: “ലെവർകൂസൻ”
  • Maltese: “Leverkusen”
  • Marathi: “लिव्हरकुसेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Leverkusen”
  • Minangkabau: “Leverkusen”
  • Moksha: “Лэвэркузэн”
  • Narom: “Leverkusen”
  • Neapolitan: “Leverkusen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Leverkusen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leverkusen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leverkusen”
  • Norwegian: “Leverkusen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Leverkusen”
  • Ossetian: “Леверкузен”
  • Persian: “لورکوزن”
  • Picard: “Leverkusen”
  • Piemontese: “Leverkusen”
  • Polish: “Leverkusen”
  • Portuguese: “Leverkusen”
  • Romanian: “Leverkusen”
  • Romansh: “Leverkusen”
  • Russian: “Леверкузен”
  • Sardinian: “Leverkusen”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Leverkusen”
  • Scots: “Leverkusen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Leverkusen”
  • Serbian: “Leverkusen”
  • Serbian: “Леверкузен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Leverkusen”
  • Sicilian: “Leverkusen”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙවෙර්කුසෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Leverkusen”
  • Slovenian: “Leverkusen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لورکوزن”
  • Spanish: “Leverkusen”
  • Swahili: “Leverkusen”
  • Swedish: “Leverkusen”
  • Swiss German: “Leverkusen”
  • Tamil: “லெவெர்குசன்”
  • Tamil: “லெவேற்குசென்”
  • Tatar: “Леверкузен”
  • Telugu: “లీవర్కుసెన్”
  • Thai: “เลเฟอร์คูเซิน”
  • Thai: “เลเวอร์คูเซิน”
  • Tumbuka: “Leverkusen”
  • Turkish: “Leverkusen”
  • Ukrainian: “Леверкузен”
  • Urdu: “لیورکوزن”
  • Urdu: “لیویرکوسین”
  • Uzbek: “Leverkusen”
  • Venetian: “Leverkusen”
  • Vietnamese: “Leverkusen”
  • Vlaams: “Leverkusen”
  • Volapük: “Leverkusen”
  • Walloon: “Leverkusen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leverkusen”
  • Welsh: “Leverkusen”
  • Western Frisian: “Leverkusen”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیورکوسن”
  • Wolof: “Leverkusen”
  • Wu Chinese: “勒沃库森”
  • Yue Chinese: “利華古遜”
  • Zulu: “Leverkusen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leverkusen”. Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.