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# ruhr

noun

«ruhr» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

50 uses in 4 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 50 of 50. By the class of the article: agglomeration 2, city 1, country 1. Most often with: «region», «city», «large», «area», «urban».

### Examples

- The Ruhr is located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. — [Gelsenkirchen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsenkirchen), sentence 3 («wiki:Gelsenkirchen:3»)
- The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. — [Germany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), sentence 5 («wiki:Germany:5»)
- The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants. — [Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Ruhr_metropolitan_region), sentence 1 («wiki:Rhine-Ruhr\_metropolitan\_region:1»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Gelsenkirchen»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsenkirchen), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Germany»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Ruhr_metropolitan_region), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.