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🇩🇪 Essen, Germany

Local time, sunrise, sunset, and timezone facts for Essen.

At a glance

IANA timezone
Europe/Berlin
Country
Germany
Population
1,157,802
Latitude
51.4500
Longitude
7.0166
Demonym
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Founded
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Area
210.34 km²
Elevation
116 m
Airports
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About Essen

Essen is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of 574,682 makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the tenth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, second largest by GDP in the EU, and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Due to its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital".

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