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The cost of living in Gelsenkirchen, Germany is 4% less than the average cost of living in Germany. Cost of living is calculated based on accumulating the cost of food, transportation, health services, rent, utilities, taxes, and miscellaneous.

Gelsenkirchen (, ; German: [ˌɡɛlzn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩] ; Westphalian: Gelsenkiärken) is a city in the Münster region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. With 262,528 inhabitants as of 2016, it is the 25th-most populous city of the country, and the 11th-most populous in the state. Gelsenkirchen lies along the Emscher river, a tributary of the Rhine, at the centre of the Ruhr area, the largest urban area of Germany, of which it is the fifth-largest city, after Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg and Bochum.