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# Ludwigshafen

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Ludwigshafen in Germany

Ludwigshafen on the Rhine is to Mannheim the second largest city of the Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar.

Ludwigshafen is simultaneous a circle-free city and administrative seat the city of surrounding state Rhineland-Palantine circle (until 2003 district Ludwigshafen). Been because of the left Rhine bank opposite the city of Baden-Württemberg Mannheim, went to Ludwigshafen once out of the former Mannheimer Rhine-digs out. Today the city is particularly well-known as seat of the BASF.

## [edit] Geographie

As one of the five upper centers of the country Rhineland-Palatinate Ludwigshafen forms the core of the European Metropolregion Rhine Neckar triangle together with its neighbour city of Baden-Wuerttemberg Mannheim. Further nearer-lying large cities are Heidelberg (about 25 km southeast), Karlsruhe (about 50 km south) and Mainz (about 60 km north).

## [edit] Inhabitans

The number of inhabitants of the city Ludwigshafen on the Rhine exceeded the border of 100.000 by the year 1925, whereby it became within one century since its establishment in the year 1853 the large city. It has about 160,000 inhabitants and lives mostly on chemical industry.

## [edit] Sister cities

- Pasadena (United States), since 1948
- Lorient (France), since 1963
- Havering (England), since 1971
- Sumqayıt (Azerbaijan), since 1987
- Dessau (Germany), 1988
- Antwerpen (Belgium), since 1999

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Categories: Cities in Germany | Cities in Rhineland-Palatinate

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