Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen am Rhein (literally: Ludwigshafen on the Rhine), commonly referred to as Ludwigshafen, is a City in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. After Mannheim it is the second largest city of the Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar.

Ludwigshafen is independent of the local district government, but is the administrative seat of the surrounding district.

 Geography 
Ludwigshafen lies on the west bank of the Rhine River. 

As one of the five upper centers of the country Rhineland-Palatinate Ludwigshafen forms the core of the European Metropolregion Rhine Neckar triangle together with its neighbour city in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mannheim. Large cities nearby are Heidelberg (about 25 km southeast), Karlsruhe (about 50 km south) and Mainz (about 60 km north).

 Population 
The number of people of the city of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine was more than 100,000 by the year 1925. Nowadays it has about 160,000 people. The chemical industry is big in the city.

 Sister cities 
  Pasadena (United States), since 1948
  Lorient (France), since 1963
  Havering (England), since 1971
  Sumqayıt (Azerbaijan), since 1987
  Dessau (Germany), 1988
  Antwerpen (Belgium), since 1999

References

 Other websites 

 Official City Website 
 Ludwigshafener Kongress- und Marketing-Gesellschaft mbH 
 BASF Website