Recklinghausen is the northernmost city in Germany's Ruhr area and the capital of the Recklinghausen district, bordering the rural Munsterland with large fields and farms to its north and industry to its south. It is the 60th largest city in Germany and the 22nd largest in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude51.616667 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Recklinghausen (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1017-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 114,851 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 51.616667, longitude 7.2
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 85 m
P2046 (area)
area 66.4 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 114851 (2025)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Recklinghausen - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2849647
51.61379 7.19738 P PPLA3 DE 07 055 05562 05562032 122438 80 Europe/Berlin
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 80 m
View the Source 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, 7.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, 7.25
51.75 7.25 Cfb
Wikidata: Recklinghausen
Wikidata Q3050, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Recklinghausen (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
and industry in the south. Recklinghausen is the 60th-largest city in Germany
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