Lünen is a town of around 86,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on both banks of the River Lippe north of Dortmund, and is the largest town in the Unna district within the Ruhr Area. In 2009 it built a biogas plant generating electricity from animal waste, which the town describes as the first public electricity supply of its kind in the world, supplying heat and power to about 26,000 homes.
Facts
Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude51.616667 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Lünen (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 85,844 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 51.616667, longitude 7.516667
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 58 m
P2046 (area)
area 59.0 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 85844 (2025)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Lünen - GeoNames
GeoNamesPlace record, elevationQuote, Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 57 m
3. 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 51.75, 7.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, 7.75
51.75 7.75 Cfb
4. GeoNames: Lünen - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2875107Quote, cities500 record 2875107
51.61634 7.52872 P PPLA4 DE 07 059 05978 05978024 91009 57 Europe/Berlin
Lünen (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
[ˈlyːnən] ) is a town with around 86000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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