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德国北莱茵-威斯特法伦州(下称“北威州”)位于欧洲心脏地带,比邻荷兰和比利时,是德国十六个联邦州中人口最多,也是人口密度最大的州。该州34092平方公里的土地上生活着1780万人(每平方公里523人),多于荷兰、比利时、捷克、匈牙利或瑞典的人口。北威州较大的城市有科隆、杜塞尔多夫、多特蒙德、埃森及杜伊斯堡。人口大约五百二十万的鲁尔区和人口三百五十万的莱茵带状城市群都是德国最重要的人口密集区。
North Rhine-Westphalia (hereinafter “North Rhine-Westphalia”) is located in the heart of Europe, next to the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the most populous and the most densely populated state in Germany’s 16 federal states. There are 17.8 million people living in the area of 34,092 square kilometers (523 people per square kilometer), more than the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary or Sweden. Larger cities in North Rhine-Westphalia include Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. The Ruhr area with a population of about 5.2 million and the Rhine-belt city population with a population of 3.5 million are all the most important densely populated areas in Germany.