Bochum

Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of 372,348, making it the sixth largest city in the state, the most populous in the country, and the sixteenth largest city in Germany. It lies on the Ruhr Heights hill chain between the Ruhr river to the south and the Emscher to the north, and is the second largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund and the fourth largest city of the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen, and Duisburg. It hosts nine institutions of higher education, most notably Ruhr University Bochum, one of the ten largest universities in Germany.