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Bochum

Western Europe

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
Population
372,348 1
Area (sq km)
145.66 2
Founding Year
890 3
Elevation (m)
100 2
Latitude
51.483333 degrees north 2
Longitude
7.216667 degrees east 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 4
Climate Zone
Temperate 5
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 4
Sources
1. Bochum (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead 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
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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
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3. 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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4. GeoNames: Bochum - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 2947416
    51.48165 7.21648 P PPLA3 DE 07 059 05911 05911000 385729 102 Europe/Berlin
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 102 m
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5. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 7.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 7.25
51.25 7.25 Cfb
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