There’s a connectedness about Germany’s Ruhr Valley that is unlike almost anywhere else in Europe.
Historically the nation’s industrial heartland, the region was a furnace of traditional mining, iron, steel, and heavy industries for well more than 100 years. More recently, the major cities of Duisburg, Bochum, Essen, and Dortmund have grown together to form a vast, interconnected, sprawling metropolis between the Ruhr, Rhine, and Lippe rivers that now ranks as Europe’s largest industrial region and the fourth-largest urban area after Moscow, London, and Paris.
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