Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
🇩🇪 Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it forms the Rhine Neckar Area.
Known primarily as an industrial city, Ludwigshafen is the home of chemical giant BASF and other companies. Among its cultural facilities are the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. It is the birthplace and deathplace of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Economy Although BASF is by far the most important industrial company in Ludwigshafen, there are many other firms. Trade and industry in Ludwigshafen have about 90,000 employees in total, with an annual total turnover of nearly 17 billion euros.
BASF is the world's leading chemical company, employing 110,000 people in total and about 35,000 (a few years ago, the employee total was about 55,000) of them in the Ludwigshafen plant, which is also the largest chemical plant in the world. The company's main products are fertilizers, dye, coolants and many other chemical substances. Among the other chemical companies with plants in Ludwigshafen rank BK Giulini, Abbvie, Raschig and Benckiser. Other important branches of industry are mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, IT and brewery (Mayerbräu Oggersheim).
Europe/Berlin/Rhineland-Palatinate
Ludwigshafen is rated Sufficiency by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) which evaluates and ranks the relationships between world cities in the context of globalisation. Sufficiency level cities are cities that have a sufficient degree of services so as not to be overly dependent on world cities.
Ludwigshafen has a population of over 172,557 people. Ludwigshafen also forms part of the wider Rhine-Neckar Region which has a population of over 2,400,000 people. For the location of Ludwigshafen see: Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Ludwigshafen has links with:
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🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 8.453
🇨🇭 Affoltern am Albis 8.45
🇩🇪 Ludwigshafen am Rhein 8.447
🇩🇪 Rüsselsheim am Main 8.433
Locations Near: Ludwigshafen 8.4756,49.4438
🇩🇪 Ludwigshafen am Rhein 8.447,49.481 d: 4.6
🇩🇪 Mannheim 8.45,49.483 d: 4.8
🇩🇪 Frankenthal 8.35,49.532 d: 13.4
🇩🇪 Heidelberg 8.708,49.414 d: 17.1
🇩🇪 Heppenheim 8.633,49.633 d: 23.9
🇩🇪 Germersheim 8.367,49.217 d: 26.5
🇩🇪 Bensheim 8.603,49.678 d: 27.6
🇩🇪 Bad Dürkheim 8.167,49.45 d: 22.3
🇩🇪 Bruchsal 8.6,49.133 d: 35.7
🇩🇪 Neustadt an der Weinstraße 8.142,49.351 d: 26.3
Antipodal to: Ludwigshafen -171.524,-49.444
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