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Bottrop is a city in Germany's Ruhr industrial region that developed as a coal-mining and rail center starting in the 1860s and was officially chartered as a city in 1921. Today it remains an industrial hub producing chemicals, textiles, machinery, and coal-tar derivatives, located on the Rhine–Herne Canal in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Key facts
- German location.type
- City
- German location.image_caption
- Church St. Peter and Paul in Bochum
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Bottrop COA.svg
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge der Stadt Bottrop.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Münster
- German location.district
- urban
- German location.elevation
- 60
- German location.area
- 100.7
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05512000
- German location.postal_code
- 46236–46244
- German location.area_code
- 02041, 02045
Article · Deutsch
Die kreisfreie Großstadt Bottrop [ˈbɔtrɔp] liegt im Ruhrgebiet in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Mit rund 117.000 Einwohnern (Stand 2017) ist sie nach Remscheid die zweitkleinste kreisfreie Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Verwaltungsmäßig gehört sie zum Regierungsbezirk Münster. Sie ist Mitglied im Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe und im Regionalverband Ruhr.
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