[doo
s-uhl-dawrf; Ger. dys-uhl-dawrf] 
| a port in and the capital of North Rhine–Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine. 563,400. |
[rahyn-west-fey-lee-uh, -feyl-yuh] | a state in W Germany; formerly a part of Rhine province. 16,874,000; 13,154 sq. mi. (34,070 sq. km). Capital: Düsseldorf. |
| Düs·sel·dorf (dŏŏs'əl-dôrf', düs'-) A city of west-central Germany on the Rhine River north-northwest of Cologne. Chartered in 1288, it has been a leading industrial center since the 1870s. The poet Heinrich Heine was born here in 1797. Population: 578,000. |