The
Lower Rhine region or
Niederrhein is a region around the
Lower Rhine section of the river
Rhine in
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany between approximately
Oberhausen and
Krefeld in the East and the
Dutch border around
Kleve in the West. As the region can be defined either geographically, linguistically, culturally, or by political, economic and traffic relations throughout the centuries, as well as by more recent political subdivisions, its precise borders are disputable and occasionally may be seen as extending beyond the Dutch border. Yet, while the Dutch half of the Lower Rhine geographic area is called
Nederrijn in Dutch, it is a separate territory from the adjoining German Niederrhein region, despite both names are a translation of the other.