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Dusseldorf, Germany

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The Resume

    (August 14, 1288- )
    Capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia
    Seventh-largest city in Germany
    Population: 619,477 (2021)
    Part of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area (population: 11,300,000)
    Located on the Lower Rhine basin on the Rhine River
    Home of Rheinturm, Neuer Zollhof, the Benrather Schloss, the Grupello-Haus, the Altstadt (Old town), the Schloss Jägerhof and the Königsallee
    Has eight sister cities: Chemnitz, Germany; Chernivtsi, Ukraine; Chiba Prefecture, Japan; Chongqing, China; Haifa, Israel; Palermo, Italy; Reading, England, United Kingdom and Warsaw, Poland

Why Dusseldorf, Germany might be annoying:

    It has the 'dorf' part in its name which means 'village' in German even though it is a large city.
    Its central railway station could be unsafe due some drug addicts being present around it.
    The Freikorps killed 45 delegates in a labor strike (April 15, 1920).
    It was bombarded by Allied bombings in World War II.
    An asylum seeker armed with an axe attacked nine people in a train (March 9, 2017).
    It suspended its links with Moscow, Russia as one of its sister cities due to Russia's conflict with Ukraine (2022).

Why Dusseldorf, Germany might not be annoying:

    It maintains a rivalry with Cologne when it comes to beer, carnival parades, soccer and hockey.
    Its cartwheeler is the city's oldest tradition.
    It is Germany's Art and Fashion Capital due to its fashion scene.
    The Rheinturm lights up the world's largest digital clock.
    It contains numerous higher educational institutions, museums, theatres, arts and history institutes, and five parks and gardens.
    Musical groups such as Kraftwerk and Warlock got their start here.
    Luise Rainer, winner of two Oscars for Best Actress, was born here.
    It has one of Europe's largest Japanese communities.

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