Rhineland

Cologne ( ; ; ) is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine (Lower Rhine), about southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.

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thumb|Location of Aachen in the Meuse (Dutch and German: Maas) river system ()

thumb|Wuppertal from space thumb|The center of Wuppertal-Elberfeld, north of the main station in 2019 thumb|The Schwebebahn floating tram in Wuppertal-Barmen, suspended above the River Wupper thumb|The Schwebebahn in Wuppertal-Elberfeld thumb|Concert Hall (Stadthalle) Wuppertal thumb|Engels House (Historisches Zentrum) thumb|Wuppertal-Beyenburg thumb|Wuppertal University

Limburgish ( or ; ; also Limburgian, Limburgic or Limburgan) is the collective designation for a group of closely related language varieties spoken in most of Belgian and Dutch Limburg and in the adjacent areas of North Rhine-Westphalia.

thumb|The Rhine Province (green) as of 1830 superimposed on modern borders.

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The Taunus () is a mountain range in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located north west of Frankfurt and north of Wiesbaden. The tallest peak in the range is Großer Feldberg at 878 m; other notable peaks are Kleiner Feldberg (825 m) and Altkönig (798 m).

government region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

government region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

1869 opera by Richard Wagner

The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past the Rhine and by the Eifel past the Moselle. To the south of the Nahe is a lower, hilly country forming the near bulk of the Palatinate region and all of the, smaller, Saarland. At its north-east corner is Koblenz.

mountain range

The Westerwald (; literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Massif ( or Rhenish Slate Mountains). Its highest elevation, at 657 m above sea level, is the Fuchskaute in the High Westerwald.

West Middle German dialect

geographic region

major rift valley in Germany

dialect family of West Central German

diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany

landscape of Rhine valley between Nahe mouth and Bonn

former passenger rail line along the Rhine

area of Germany

Kleverlandish (; ) is a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken on both sides of the Dutch-German border along the Meuse and Rhine rivers.

museum in Bonn, Germany

dam in Städteregion Aachen, Kreis Düren

German organization

nature park in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

castle in Rhineland-Palatinate

German breed of rabbit

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lake in Germany

Seven ponds in the Westerwald of the Rhineland-Palatinate

United Protestant church body in parts of several German states

Decentral organized Industry Museum in Germany's Rhineland Area with seven locations.

touristic itinery in Germany and the Netherlands

castle