Duisburg

Duisburg () is a German ceety in the wastren pairt o the Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet) in North Rhine-Westphalie. It is a unthirlt metropolitan burgh athin Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf. Wi the warld's biggest inland harbour an its proximity tae Düsseldorf Internaitional Airport, Duisburg haes become an important venue for commerce an steel production.

The day's ceety is a result o numerous incorporations o surroondin touns an smawer ceeties. It is the fifteent-mucklest ceety in Germany an the fift-mucklest ceety in North Rhine-Westphalie wi 495,668 residents as o 31 December 2007. The ceety is renouned for its steel industry. The last remainin coal mine closed doun in the simmer o 2009, but Duisburg haes niver been a coal-minin centre tae the same extent as ither places in the Ruhr region (German= Ruhrgebiet). Aw blast furnaces in the Ruhr are nou locatit in Duisburg. 49% o aw hot metal an 34.4% o aw pig-iron in Germany is producit here (as o 2000). It haes a muckle brewery an aw, the König Brauerei, locatit in Duisburg-Beeck, which maks the König Pilsener brand. The University o Duisburg-Essen, wi 37,000 students, ranks amang the 10 mucklest German varsities.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns – Sister ceeties 
Duisburg is twinned wi:
 Portsmouth, Hampshire, Unitit Kinrick (syne 1950)Portsmouth City Council. Twinning . Retrieved 22 August 2007.
 Calais, Nord, Fraunce (syne 1964)
 Lomé, Togo (syne 1973) Wuhan, Hubei, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (syne 1982)
 Vilnius, Lithuanie (syne 1985)
 Gaziantep, Turkey (syne 2005) Perm, Perm Krai, Roushie
 San Pedro Sula, Honduras
 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Unitit States

 References 

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Category:Ceeties in North Rhine-Westphalie
Category:Populatit places on the Rhine
Category:Port ceeties an touns in Germany
Category:Members o the Hanseatic League
Category:Imperial free ceeties
Category:Turkis commonties in Germany