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This is article one link this with sites and put an extension to wikipedia Essen/Hattingen and talk about the Ruhrgebiet and the history talk about essen and coal mining. This is more about World heritage sites.

This is article two about territorial and geographical information as well as history and modern facts.

This is article three and four. Cuisine and I can link to the pages for specific beer types if there is one. Hacks

This is article five. Topic will be under politics and energy consumption. Link to energy conservation and renewable energy efforts in Germany.

another one. German Carnival Festival.

Emron's Article Summary
The article I'm editing is copied into my Sandbox here below. The article is about one of the 14 territorial states within the country of Germany. This state is the most heavily populated in current times and has a rich history. The current sections that make the article C-class are the geography and historical concepts. What's lacking in order to make this a well rounded article are topics such as cuisine, art, and music (which fall under the culture category), and other topics such as festivals and traditions.

The purpose of me editing this article is because it contributed to the projects of WikiCities and WikiProject Germany. I hope I am able to influence the class of this article and get immediate feedback from viewers. Another section I will be adding is about the spoken dialects in this region. I think when people are looking up quick information about this state or region the first things of concern are economics, politics and culture; culture being the makeup of what languages are spoken and who are the people that live in this state... what has influenced this group into being what and who they are today.

North-Rhine Westfalia Page
North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, pronounced [ˈnɔɐ̯tʁaɪ̯n vɛstˈfaːlən] ( listen), commonly shortened to NRW) is a state of Germany.

North Rhine-Westphalia is the fourth-largest area in Germany located in western Germany. It covers an area of 34,084 square kilometres (13,160 sq mi) and has a population of 17.6 million. It is the most populous and most densely populated German state apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg. Düsseldorf is the state capital and Cologne is the largest city. North Rhine-Westphalia features four of Germany's 10 largest cities: Düsseldorf, Cologne, Dortmund, and Essen, and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest in Germany and the third-largest on the European continent.

North Rhine-Westphalia was established in 1946 after World War II from the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and the northern part of Rhine Province (North Rhine), and the Free State of Lippe by the British military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia became a state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, and the city of Bonn served as the federal capital until the reunification of Germany in 1990 and as the seat of government until 1999.

History
Main article: History of North Rhine-Westphalia

Subdivisions
See also: List of places in North Rhine-Westphalia

The state consists of five government regions (Regierungsbezirke), divided into 31 districts (Kreise) and 23 urban districts (kreisfreie Städte). In total, North Rhine-Westphalia has 396 municipalities (1997), including the urban districts, which are municipalities by themselves. The government regions have an assembly elected by the districts and municipalities, while the Landschaftsverband have a directly elected assembly.

The five government regions of North Rhine-Westphalia each belong to one of the two Landschaftsverbände:

Borders[edit]
The state's area covers a maximum distance of 291 km from north to south, and 266 km from east to west. The total length of the state's borders is 1,645 km. The following countries and states have a border with North Rhine-Westphalia:


 * Belgium (99 km)
 * Netherlands (387 km)
 * Lower Saxony (583 km)
 * Hesse (269 km)
 * Rhineland-Palatinate (307 km)

Demographics
North Rhine-Westphalia has a population of approximately 17.5 million inhabitants (more than the entire former East Germany, and slightly more than the Netherlands) and is centered around the polycentric Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, which includes the industrial Ruhr region and the Rhenish cities of Bonn, Cologne and Düsseldorf. 30 of the 80 largest cities in Germany are located within the boundaries North Rhine-Westphalia. The state's capital is Düsseldorf and Cologne (Köln) is the most populated city. The number of births reached 160.478 while 204.373 died in 2015. The TRF reached 1.52 (2015) and was highest in Lippe (1.72) and lowest in Bochum (1.29).

Historical population[edit]

The following table shows the population of the state since 1930. The values until 1960 are the average of the yearly population, from 1965 the population at year end is used.

Religion[edit]
According to studies of the Ruhr University Bochum in 2011 42.2% of the North Rhine-Westphalian population adheres to the Roman Catholic Church, 28.4% are members of the Evangelical Church in Germany, 23.8% are unaffiliated, non-religious or atheists, 8% are Muslims, 0.49% are adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church, 1.1% are members of smaller Christian groups (half of them the New Apostolic Church), 1.0% are adherents of new religions or esoteric groups, 0.2% are adherents of Indian religions, and 0.2% are Jews.

North Rhine-Westphalia ranks first in population among German states for both Roman Catholics and Protestants.

Politics[edit]
Main article: Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia

The politics of North Rhine-Westphalia takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic. The two main parties, as on the federal level, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union and the centre-left Social Democratic Party. From 1966 to 2005, North Rhine-Westphalia was continuously governed by the Social Democrats or SPD-led governments.

The state's legislative body is the Landtag ("state diet"). It may pass laws within the competency of the state, e.g. cultural matters, the education system, matters of internal security, i.e. the police, building supervision, health supervision and the media; as opposed to matters that are reserved to Federal law.

North Rhine-Westphalia uses the same electoral system as the Federal level in Germany: "Personalized proportional representation". Every five years the citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia vote in a general election to elect at least 181 members of the Landtag. Only parties who win at least 5% of the votes cast may be represented in parliament.

The Landtag, the parliamentary parties and groups consisting of at least 7 members of parliament have the right to table legal proposals to the Landtag for deliberation. The law that are passed by the Landtag is delivered to the Minister-President, who, together with the ministers involved, is required to sign it and announce it in the Law and Ordinance Gazette.

List of Ministers-President[edit]
These are the Ministers-president of the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia:

Culture
The flag of North Rhine-Westphalia is green-white-red with the combined coats of arms of the Rhineland (white line before green background, symbolizing the river Rhine), Westfalen (the white horse) and Lippe (the red rose).

According to legend the horse in the Westphalian coat of arms is the horse that the Saxon leader Widukind rode after his baptism. Other theories attribute the horse to Henry the Lion. Some connect it with the Germanic rulers Hengist and Horsa.

Architecture and building monuments
The state is not known for its castles like other regions in Germany. However, North Rhine-Westphalia has a high concentration of museums, cultural centres, concert halls and theatres.

World Heritage Sites
The state has Aachen Cathedral, the Cologne Cathedral, the Zeche Zollverein in Essen, the Augustusburg Palace in Brühl and the Imperial Abbey of Corvey in Höxter which are all World Heritage Sites.

Cuisine
"The different regions across Germany were influenced by the countries surrounding it. The traditional cuisine in the north-west of Germany was influenced by the Belgian cuisine, whereas the east shows Polish influences, and in the regions close to the Czech border influences of the Czech cuisine can be found (Hirschfelder and Schönberger 2005). Many Bavarian dishes are similar to dishes commonly consumed in Austria."

Examples:

Reibekuchen

Grillhaxe

Drinks

 * Kölsch is a local beer speciality brewed in Cologne.
 * Alt is a local beer speciality brewed in Düsseldorf and the Lower Rhine Region.
 * Dortmunder Export is a local pale lager beer speciality brewed in Dortmund.

Festivals
North Rhine-Westphalia hosts film festivals in Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Duisburg, Münster, Oberhausen and Lünen.

Other large festivals include Rhenish carnivals, Ruhrtriennale.

Every year GamesCom is hosted in Cologne. It is the largest video game convention in Europe.

Anime convention or japantag in duesseldorf.***

Music

 * The composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770.
 * A regional anthem is the Lied für NRW (Song for NRW).
 * North Rhine-Westphalia is home to many of Germany's best-known heavy metal, speed metal and thrash metal bands: Accept, Angel Dust, Blind Guardian, Doro (formerly of Warlock), Grave Digger, Holy Moses, Kreator, Rage, Scanner and Sodom. Also, North Rhine-Westphalia is home to Kraftwerk, originally a Krautrock band for four years, then later a synth-pop band.