Where Dortmund is.

The answer

RUHR

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUHR answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1944. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RUHR

Every other clue in this collection answered by RUHR, most used first.

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• German river - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Essen's river - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
• River to the Rhine - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
• Rhine tributary - used 19 times, most recently in 2015
• German industrial valley - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Essen's region - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Essen's valley - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Rhine feeder - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• German coal valley - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• German valley - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• German mining region - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• German coal region - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Where Essen is. - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• German industrial area - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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