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Industrial city of West Germany, on the right
bank of the river Rhine, 26 km/16 mi NW of
Cologne, capital of North Rhine-Westphalia;
population (1988) 561,000. It is a river port
and the commercial and financial centre of
the Ruhr area, with food processing, brewing,
agricultural machinery, textile, and chemical
industries.