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Cologne

Cologne
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About Cologne

Cologne is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 22 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.

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The largest brothel in Europe is situated on Horn Street. It's in Cologne, and it has 120 sex workers working there, and it was Europe's first high-rise brothel.

from No Such Thing As Love Spaghetti, 2025-08-21 at 00:34:20 · read transcript

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  1. The problem is that Bethlehem isn't on the coast. People in Britain didn't really know where Bethlehem was or in Europe, they didn't know. They just assumed it was like a seaside resort. So the part of the song goes, it sailed from Bethlehem to Cologne, I think it was. How could it do that? Are they each on one ship? One in each ship.

    No Such Thing As Reginald The Red-Nosed Reindeer, 2014-12-24 · listen

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Coordinates: 50.9364, 6.9528

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