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.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Latitude51.483333 degrees north 2 Sources
1. Bochum (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead paragraph, population
population of 372,348
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Germany; continent follows from the atlas record for Germany
Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous German federal state, and the 16th-largest city in Germany
View the Source 2. Bochum (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 51.483333, longitude 7.216667
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 100 m
P2046 (area)
area 145.66 sq km
View the Source3. Wikidata: Bochum
- Wikidata Q2103, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Wikidata Q2103 P1249, class allow-list match, knownqid pass (w-bbfill-geography5-0926)
P1249 value year 890
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