Dusseldorf 8页.doc

Düsseldorf Country German State North Rhine-Westphalia Admin. region Düsseldorf District Urban district Government ???Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel?(SPD) ???Governing parties SPD?/?Greens?/?FDP Area???City 217?km2?(84?sq?mi) Population?(2013-12-31)[1]???City 598,686???Density 2,800/km2?(7,100/sq?mi) ???Urban 1,220,000???Metro 11,300,000 (Rhein-Ruhr) Time zone CET/CEST?(UTC+1/+2)Postal codes 40210-40629 Dialling codes 0211, 0203 (Ortsnetz Duisburg), 02104 (Ortsnetz Mettmann) Vehicle registration D Düsseldorf?(German:?[?d?sl?d???f]?(?listen),?Low German:?Düsseld?rp?[?d?sl?d???p]) is the capital city of the?German?state of?North Rhine-Westphalia?and center of the?Rhine-Ruhr?metropolitan region with a population of 11 million people.[2] Düsseldorf is an international business and financial centre and renowned for its?fashion?and trade fairs.[3][4][5]?Located within the?Blue Banana, the city is headquarters to five?Fortune Global 500?and several?DAX?companies.?Messe Düsseldorf?claims to organise nearly one fifth of all world‘s premier trade shows.[6] Culturally, Düsseldorf is known for its academy of fine arts (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, e.g.?Joseph Beuys,?Emanuel Leutze,?August Macke,?Gerhard Richter,?Sigmar Polke?and?Andreas Gursky), its pioneering influence on electronic/experimental music (Kraftwerk) and its?relatively large Japanese community. As a city by the river?Rhine, Düsseldorf is a stronghold for?Rhenish Carnival?celebrations. Every year in July more than 4.5 million people visit the citys?Largest Fair on the Rhine.[7] As the?seventh most populous city in Germany?by population within city limits and a Larger Urban Zone population of 1.5 million,[8]?Mercers 2012 Quality of Living survey?ranked Düsseldorf sixth city in the world.[9][10] History When the?Roman Empire?was strengthening its position throughout Europe, a few?Germanic tribes?clung in?marshy?territory off the eastern banks of the?Rhine River.[11] In the 7th and 8th centuries, the odd?farming?or?fishi