What is the German Ruhr Area?
Ruhr Area From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Ruhr area) The Ruhr Area (German Ruhrgebiet or, colloquially, Ruhrpott) is a metropolitan area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north. Southwest it borders the Bergisches Land. Going from west to east, the area includes the cities of Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Mlheim, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hagen, and Dortmund. The cities of the area have grown into a large complex forming an industrial landscape of unique size, inhabited by circa 9 million people, the third largest urban area in Europe after Greater London and Paris. The area is often mistakenly perceived as a single city because many maps do not show the boundaries between the individual cities. The area is also considered part of the even larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolis of more than 12 million people. Being mere villages for
