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Wikipedia: Rotterdam (the Latinised adjectival form for the city is Roterodamus) is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the country, with a population of 589,615 as of October 2009. The greater Rotterdam area, best known as 'Rotterdam-Rijnmond'/'Rijnmond region' (Rijnmond is to be literally translated as 'The Rhine's mouth', referring to Rotterdam its location at the end of the Rhine-delta and it's economic position as Europe's main port) contains around 1.3 million people (by some standards it rather approaches 2 million inhabitants).
![[Rotterdam, by Johan Barthold Jongkind (1856)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Johan_Barthold_Jongkind_004_s.jpg "Rotterdam, by Johan Barthold Jongkind (1856)")
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![[The Euromast]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Euromast2_s.jpg "The Euromast")
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![[Rotterdam waterfront, with spotlights shining into the air to commemorate the Rotterdam Blitz]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HerdenkingVuurgrensRotterdam1940_2007_edit1_s.jpg "Rotterdam waterfront, with spotlights shining into the air to commemorate the Rotterdam Blitz")
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![[The modular, temporary station at Rotterdam]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rotterdam_Centraal_april_2008_2_s.jpg "The modular, temporary station at Rotterdam")
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![[Rotterdam, by James Webb (before 1895)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Webb_James_Rotterdam_2C_Holland_s.jpg "Rotterdam, by James Webb (before 1895)")
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![[Landmark building the Willemswerf. Its architecture features the 'N' of Nedlloyd.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rotterdam_nedloyd_gebouw_s.jpg "Landmark building the Willemswerf. Its architecture features the 'N' of Nedlloyd.")
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![[Modern residential architecture (cube houses) in the city centre of Rotterdam.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rotterdam_Cube_House_2_s.jpg "Modern residential architecture (cube houses) in the city centre of Rotterdam.")
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![[Modern residential architecture in the city centre of Rotterdam.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Montevideo_2010_s.jpg "Modern residential architecture in the city centre of Rotterdam.")
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![[Bep van Klaveren]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bep_van_Klaveren_2C_Olympische_Spelen_1928_Amsterdam_1_s.jpg "Bep van Klaveren")
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