Dortmund (deu)

Dortmund

Dortmund ranks 346th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Leuven, Gunma Prefecture, and Wellington. Memorable people born in Dortmund include Dettmar Cramer, Adolf Schmal, and Heinz Lammerding. Memorable people who died in Dortmund include Walter Behrendt, Theodor Tolsdorff, and Aki Schmidt. Dortmund has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians. 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 614,495 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