Friday, April 20, 2007

the two german gigants : Berlin and rhine ruhr

A few facts about the "biggest" city in Germany ,the rhine ruhr area :

the area has an population of around 12 milllion inhabitans

it goes from Wesel in the norf to bonn in the south and from Mönchengladbach in the west to Hamm in the east , some people took the area around Aachen to it !

Cities in the Rhine ruhr /Rhine ruhr north: -Essen, Duisburg , Dortmund ,Mühlheim ,Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen , Hagen , Wuppertal Solingen , Remscheid ,Düsseldorf ,Hamm,Krefeld, Bochum ,Bottrop ,Marl, Moers ,Herne, Recklinghausen , Oeroerkenschwick,Velbert ,Iserlohn,Schwerte,Unna,Kamp-Lintfort (around 6 million inh.)

Rhine ruhr west: Mönchengladbach ,Dormagen,Viersen (around 1 milllion inh) (some count also Aachen,Stolberg and Eschweiler)

Rhine ruhr south :Cologne, Düsseldorf,Bonn,Leverkusen,Langenfeld,Hilden,Hürth, frechen,Siegburg,Troisdorf,Hennef,Lohmar,Bergisch Gladbach (around 5 Millions )

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So you can see the rhine ruhr is polycentric the biggest "city" of germany !

The second gigant city is Berlin the urban area have around 3,6 mill. the metro (or commuter) area has 4,2 million inhabitans

The urban area streches from Oranienburg in the north to Königs Wusterhausen in the south and from ;Falkenhagen to Strausberg in the east

Cities in urban area :clearly Berlin,Falkensee, Falkenhagen , Zeuthen , Wildau, Königswusterhausen , Hohen neuendorf , Bergfelde, Potsdam, Glienicke ,Rüdersdorf , Petershagen , Fredersdorf,Neuenhagen,Zepernik,Eichwalde Bernau ,Oranienburg Hennigsdorf,werder (3,6 million inhabitans)

Cities in the commuter area :Lübbben,Velten,Neuruppin, Fürstenwalde Frankfurt, Cottbus , brandenburg city, Lübbenau, Vetschau , cottbus , eberswalde , Velten

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So thats a few facts about Berlin and the rhine ruhr ; the only real "gigants in germany ! What do you think about this areas and have anyone a few other facts so pls. post here !>

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