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The Emscher () is a river, a tributary of the Rhine, that flows through the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. Its overall length is with a mean outflow near the mouth into the lower Rhine of .

Key facts

River.name
Emscher
River.image
2012-10-06 Dortmund Sonnenuntergang über der Emscher.jpg
River.image_caption
The Emscher in southern Dortmund
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Germany
River.length_km
83.2
River.source1
Holzwickede
River.source1_location
Eastern Ruhr Area
River.mouth
Rhine
River.basin_size_km2
793

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The Emscher () is a river, a tributary of the Rhine, that flows through the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. Its overall length is with a mean outflow near the mouth into the lower Rhine of .

==Description==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emscher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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