Dortmund
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Dortmund

Germany · North Rhine-Westphalia

Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Dusseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, and is the administrative, commercial, and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area, after Hamburg.

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Local time
UTC+1 · 7 h ahead of Costa Rica
Region
North Rhine-Westphalia
Main language
German
On the map
51.51° N, 7.47° E

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