Ruhr, lebih tepat dipanggil daerah Ruhr atau kawasan Ruhr (bahasa Jerman German Ruhrgebiet, bahasa basahan Ruhrpott, Kohlenpott, Pott atau Revier), ialah kawasan bandar di North Rhine-Westphalia, Jerman.[3] Dengan 4435 km² dan populasi sekitar 7.3 juta (2008), ia merupakan kelompok perbandaran terbesar di Jerman. Ia mengandungi beberapa bekas bandar raya industri besar, bersempadan dengan Sungai Ruhr ke selatan, Rhine ke barat, dan Sungai Lippe ke utara. Di barat daya ia bersempadan dengan Bergisches Land. Ia dianggap sebahagian kawasan metropolitan Rhine-Ruhr yang lebih besar dengan lebih 12 juta orang.
Nota
- ^ metropoleruhr.de
- ^ highest: Wengeberg di Breckerfeld, terendah: Xanten
- ^ "Few foreigners know that in fact 'the Ruhr' is the name of a 150-mile-long Rhine right-bank tributary which, after meandering through the industrial basin now named after it, enters its parent near Europe's greatest inland port, Duisburg." See German International, Volume 10 (1966), p. 30. "The territory through which the Ruhr flows is called the Ruhr district." See Edmund Jan Osmańczyk and Anthony Mango, Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: A to F, 2003, p.1970. "Many industries were built in the Ruhr region, where both iron ore and coal were found." Kathryn Lane, Germany: The Land (2001), p. 24.
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