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Dortmund

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Country: Germany

Population:594,255

Time Zone:UTC+2

With 614,495 residents, Dortmund is the largest city in the Ruhr and the ninth-largest in Germany. The city forms part of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the European Union’s second-biggest metropolitan area by GDP, and serves as eastern Ruhr’s administrative, commercial, and cultural centre. It stretches along the Emscher and Ruhr rivers and is also the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area, after Hamburg.