Wuppertal (Germany)

Wuppertal.A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of 355,000.

Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and 17th-largest in Germany. It is the capital and largest city of the Bergisches Land.

The city straddles the densely populated banks of the River Wupper, a tributary of the Rhine.

Wuppertal is located between the Ruhr (Essen) to the north, Düsseldorf to the west, and Cologne (Koln) to the southwest, and over time has grown together with Solingen, Remscheid and Hagen.

The stretching of the city in a long band along the narrow Wupper Valley leads to a spatial impression of Wuppertal being larger than it actually is.

The city is known for its steep slopes, its woods and parks, and for being the greenest city in Germany, with two-thirds green space of the total municipal area.

From any part of the city, it is only a ten-minute walk to one of the public parks or woodland paths.