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Oberhausen

city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Summary

Oberhausen is a big city[1]. Oberhausen draws 4,969 Wikipedia views per month (big city category, ranking #190 of 300).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: association for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, townships and districts in North Rhine Westphalia[3], Lippeverband[4], Emschergenossenschaft[5], Mayors for Peace[6], Städtetag Nordrhein-Westfalen[7], Landschaftsverband Rheinland[8], WAGEV[9]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Düsseldorf Government Region[10]
  • Country: Germany[11]
  • Head of government: Thorsten Berg[12]
  • Instance of: urban municipality in Germany[13], urban district of North Rhine-Westphalia[14]
  • Shares border with: Wesel[15], Duisburg[16], Mülheim an der Ruhr[17], Essen[18], Bottrop[19]
  • Twinned administrative body: Iglesias[20], Carbonia[21], Middlesbrough[22], Zaporizhzhia[23], Freital[24], Mersin[25]
  • Postal code: 46001–46149[26]
  • Part of: Regionalverband Ruhr[27]
  • Commons category: Oberhausen[28]
  • Licence plate code: OB[29]
  • Local dialing code: 0208[30]
  • Archives at: Stadtarchiv Oberhausen[31]
  • Inception: January 1, 1862[32]
  • Coordinate location: 51.4699, 6.8514[33]
  • Official website: https://www.oberhausen.de/[34]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Oberhausen[35]
  • Commons gallery: Oberhausen[36]
  • Described at URL: https://www.kek-online.de/medienkonzentration/mediendatenbank/#/profile/shareholder/5be1a6b6-16b1-4820-b4dc-9356537798d2[37]
  • Population: 209,292[38], 210,934[39], 211,382[40], 211,422[41], 237,147[42], 210,829[43], 209,566[44], 208,752[45], 210,824[46], 211,099[47], 213,646[48], 213,178[49]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[50], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[51], The Encyclopedia Americana[52]
  • Official name: Oberhausen[53]
  • Category for people born here: Q9226197[54]
  • Category for people who died here: Q32416499[55]
  • Female population: 107,217[56], 106,747[57]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Oberhausen include Oberhausen Manifesto[58], a manifesto[59].

Why It Matters

Oberhausen has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[60] Oberhausen is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[61]

Entities named for Oberhausen include Oberhausen Manifesto[58], a manifesto[59].

Related Entities

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References

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [58] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. [59] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [60] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [61] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 9w ago · Hogü-456 · 2026-08-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Getty thesaurus of geographic names id → 7013481
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  3. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+209292'}, {'amount': '+210934'}, {'amount': '+211382'} +9
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  5. 18w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2282363, 5687321
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    Male population → {'amount': '+103612'}, {'amount': '+102819'}
    Member of → association for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, townships and districts in North Rhine Westphalia, Lippeverband, Emschergenossenschaft +4
    + 34 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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