Dortmund Flowers
Dortmund located in the Bundesland. Its population of 587,830 makes it the largest city in the region, 7th-largest in the country, and 34th-largest in the European Union.
The Dortmund-Ems Canal also terminates in the Dortmund Port, which is the largest European canal port, and links Dortmund to the North Sea.
Dortmund is known as Westphalia's "green metropolis". Nearly half the municipal territory consists of waterways, woodland, agriculture and green spaces with spacious parks such as Westfalenpark and the Rombergpark. This contrasts with nearly a hundred years of extensive coal mining and steel milling within the city limits.