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Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia)

Cologne

Cologne (kulōn') [key], Ger. Köln, city (1994 pop. 962,500), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rhine River. It is a commercial, financial, and industrial center, a rail and road junction, and a river port. Its manufactures include automobile engines, engineering, electronics engineering, metals, chemicals, textiles, printed materials, and eau de cologne.

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THE SWEETEST SIGHTS; NEARLY 300 YEARS AGO, THE CITY OF COLOGNE BECAME THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE FRAGRANT WATER THAT STILL BEARS ITS NAME. TODAY, THIS BUSTLING CITY -- THE FOURTH LARGEST IN GERMANY AND THE HEART OF THE RHINELAND -- IS EVEN SWEETER: A VIBRANT, INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED METROPOLIS THAT OFFERS SOME OF THE FINEST IN EUROPEAN FOOD, FASHION, HISTORICAL ATTRACTIONS AND CULTURE. (Daily News Record)

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