Düs·sel·dorf (d s  l-dôrf , düs-) A city of west-central Germany on the Rhine River north-northwest of Cologne. Chartered in 1288, it has been a leading industrial center since the 1870s. The poet Heinrich Heine was born here in 1797. Population: 578,000. |
Düsseldorf [ˈdʊsəlˌdɔːf (German) ˈdysəldɔrf]
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(Placename) an industrial city in W Germany, capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Rhine: commercial centre of the Rhine-Ruhr industrial area. Pop.: 568 500 (1999 est.)
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