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Gelsenkirchen is the fifth largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, Bochum, Bielefeld and Münster, and it is one of the southernmost cities in the Low German dialect area. The city is home to the football club Schalke 04, which is named after Gelsenkirchen-Schalke.
Gelsenkirchen (UK: /ˈɡɛlzənkɪərxən/, US: /ˌɡɛlzənˈkɪərxən/, German: [ˌɡɛlzn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩]; Westphalian: Gelsenkiärken) is a city in Germany in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is about 63 kilometres (39.1 miles) north of Cologne in the so-called Ruhr Area. About 269,000 people live there.
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Gelsenkirchen, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies just north of Essen. Gelsenkirchen was a village of fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in 1850, but the opening in 1853 of its first coal mine and its favourable position on the Rhine-Herne Canal stimulated its rapid.
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Gelsenkirchen definition: a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley. See examples of GELSENKIRCHEN used in a sentence.
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Proper noun [ edit] Gelsenkirchen. A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. German [ edit] German Wikipedia has an article on: Gelsenkirchen. Etymology [ edit] From Middle Low German Gelstenkerken, Geilistirinkirkin. Pronunciation [ edit]
