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 ====== Ruhr Area ======
-The Ruhr Area (German //Ruhrgebiet//) is an urban agglomeration in western Germany, in the state of North Rhine Westphalia. It is one of the largest urban agglomerations in Europe, even though not a single city in it reaches anywhere near a million inhabitants. However, in its wider definition, as the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area it includes Cologne, which does have nearly a million inhabitants. On the other hand, even though it contains so many cities, it is a smaller metropolitan area than London, Paris or Moscow.
+The Ruhr Area (German //Ruhrgebiet//) is an urban agglomeration in western Germany, in the state of North Rhine Westphalia. It is one of the largest urban agglomerations in Europe, even though not a single city in it reaches anywhere near a million inhabitants. However, in its wider definition, as the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area it includes [[Cologne]], which does have nearly a million inhabitants. On the other hand, even though it contains so many cities, it is a smaller metropolitan area than [[London]], [[Paris]] or [[Moscow]].
 The area's coal reserves, and its subsequent heavy industrialization spelled trouble, and it hence is significant in history and alternate history alike: including for example the occupation by the French in the aftermath of WWI, or being the prime target for the infamous Morgenthau Plan.