Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium was the Roman colony in the Rhineland from which the modern city of Cologne, Germany, developed. Its site corresponds to present-day Cologne, and the continuity between the Roman settlement and the modern city reflects a direct historical succession.
Facts
Latitude50.938056 degrees north 2 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. City Population (citypopulation.de): Germany: States and Major Cities
City Population (citypopulation.de)Cities table, 2025-12-31 estimate column (Koeln)Quote, Cities table, 2025-12-31 estimate column (Koeln)
Köln [ Cologne ] CityCR NW 953,551 967,940 1,005,775 1,017,355 1,025,523 40502
2. Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 50.938056, longitude 6.956944
3. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 50.9381,6.9569
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 59.0
4. 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 50.75, 6.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 6.75
50.75 6.75 Cfb
5. GeoNames: Köln - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2886242Quote, cities500 record 2886242
50.93333 6.95 P PPLA2 DE 07 053 05315 05315000 1024621 58 Europe/Berlin
Wikidata: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Wikipedia)
- 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
the Roman colony in the Rhineland from which the city of Cologne, now in Germany
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