Dortmund (deu)

Dortmund

Dortmund ranks 419th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Valladolid, Dubrovnik, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Memorable people born in Dortmund include Heinz Lammerding, Dettmar Cramer, and Ludwig Crüwell. Memorable people who died in Dortmund include Kurt Blome, Mithat Bayrak, and Ursula Happe. Dortmund has been the birth place of many soccer players and military personnels and the death place of many soccer players and athletes. Dortmund is located in Germany.

Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 612.065 inhabitants, it is the largest city of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area, after Hamburg. Read more on Wikipedia