Oberhausen

Oberhausen (Ripuarian: Ovverhouse, Low German: Owerhuusen, Overhus)  is a city in Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr Area. Oberhausen has about 220,000 inhabitants. It was dominated by industry like most towns in the Ruhr Area. The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

 Twin towns – sister cities 
Oberhausen is twinned with:

  Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom (1974)
  Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine (1986)
  Carbonia, Italy (2002)
  Iglesias, Italy (2002)
  Mersin, Turkey (2004)
  Tychy, Poland (2020) 

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