Bonn, Cologne Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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🇩🇪 The Federal city of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Bonn is located in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area. It is famous as a university city, the birthplace of Beethoven.

Founded in the 1st century BC as a Roman settlement in the province Germania Inferior, Bonn is one of Germany's oldest cities. It was the capital city of the Electorate of Cologne from 1597 to 1794, and residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne. From 1949 to 1990, Bonn was the capital of West Germany, and Germany's present constitution, the Basic Law, was declared in the city in 1949. The era when Bonn served as the capital of West Germany is referred to by historians as the Bonn Republic. From 1990 to 1999, Bonn served as the seat of government – but no longer capital – of reunited Germany.

Due to a political compromise (Berlin-Bonn Act) following the reunification, the German federal government maintains a substantial presence in Bonn. Roughly a third of all ministerial jobs are located in Bonn as of 2019, and the city is considered a second, unofficial, capital of the country. Bonn is the secondary seat of the President, the Chancellor, and the Bundesrat, and the primary seat of six federal government ministries and twenty federal authorities. The title of Federal City (Bundesstadt) reflects its important political status within Germany.

The headquarters of Deutsche Post DHL and Deutsche Telekom, both DAX-listed corporations, are in Bonn. The city is home to the University of Bonn and a total of 20 United Nations institutions, the highest number in all of Germany. These institutions include the headquarters for Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the UN Volunteers programme.

Economy The head offices of Deutsche Telekom, its subsidiary T-Mobile, Deutsche Post, German Academic Exchange Service, and SolarWorld are in Bonn.

The third largest employer in the city of Bonn is the University of Bonn (including the university clinics) and Stadtwerke Bonn also follows as a major employer.

On the other hand, there are several traditional, nationally known private companies in Bonn such as luxury food producers Verpoorten and Kessko, the Klais organ manufacture and the Bonn flag factory.

The largest confectionery manufacturer in Europe, Haribo, has its founding headquarters (founded in 1922) and a production site in Bonn. Today the company is located in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Grafschaft.

Other companies of supraregional importance are Weck Glaswerke (production site), Fairtrade, Eaton Industries (formerly Klöckner & Moeller), IVG Immobilien, Kautex Textron, SolarWorld, Vapiano and the SER Group.

Education The Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn (University of Bonn) is one of the largest universities in Germany. It is also the location of the German research institute Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) offices and of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD).

Bonn, Cologne Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 
<b>Bonn, Cologne Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany</b>
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Bonn has a population of over 327,900 people. Bonn also forms the centre of the wider Bonn metropolitan area which has a population of over 2,003,046 people. Bonn is the #280 hipster city in the world, with a hipster score of 2.8423 according to the Hipster Index which evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores. Bonn is ranked #161 for startups with a score of 3.41.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Bonn has links with:

🇭🇺 Budafok-Tétény, Hungary 🇺🇿 Bukhara, Uzbekistan 🇬🇭 Cape Coast, Ghana 🇨🇳 Chengdu, China 🇧🇴 La Paz, Bolivia 🇧🇾 Minsk, Belarus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Oxford, England 🇩🇪 Potsdam, Germany 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel 🇲🇳 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Antipodal to Bonn is: -172.915,-50.727

Locations Near: Bonn 7.0851,50.7272

🇩🇪 Bad Godesberg 7.146,50.689 d: 6  

🇩🇪 Sankt Augustin 7.191,50.773 d: 9  

🇩🇪 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 7.1,50.533 d: 21.6  

🇩🇪 Köln 6.95,50.933 d: 24.8  

🇩🇪 Cologne 6.958,50.939 d: 25.2  

🇩🇪 Hürth 6.867,50.867 d: 21.8  

🇩🇪 Bergisch Gladbach 7.134,50.992 d: 29.6  

🇩🇪 Euskirchen 6.792,50.66 d: 22  

🇩🇪 Leverkusen 6.982,51.033 d: 34.8  

🇩🇪 Pulheim 6.8,51 d: 36.3  

Antipodal to: Bonn -172.915,-50.727

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🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11895.1  

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