Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Latitude and longitude coordinates are: 51.516666, 7.100000.

Gelsenkirchen is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is a part of the heavily populated municipal area of the cities of Dortmund, Essen, Bochum, Munster, and others. Gelsenkirchen is a home to about 265 thousand people and is an old city established in the 12th century, but for many centuries it was quite a small village of farmers. Only by the beginning of the 19th century the settlement started developing into a larger town, when the period of industrialization started. Today's city is a nice community, with quite large portion of Jewish and Turkish people living there. There are quite a few landmarks in the city, including Industrial Heritage Trail, Municipal forest of Buer, and so on.

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Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Lat Long Coordinates Info

The latitude of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 51.516666, and the longitude is 7.100000. Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is located at Germany country in the Cities place category with the gps coordinates of 51° 30' 59.9976'' N and 7° 5' 60.0000'' E.