What is the nearest german city to Amnsterdam?

Question

How far away is the nearest german city to the boarder of Netherlands?

Answer 1

The nearest large city is Duisburg, an industrial city in the Ruhr-area. The distance from Amsterdam is 208 km.

Answer 2

The nearest German cities would be Emmerich (pop. ~30,000) (Elten is a part of it) and Kleve (pop. ~50,000) which both are on the Rhine  right at the border a little over 100 km away from Amsterdam.

The nearest big city is Münster (pop. ~270,000) which is 190 km to the west of Amsterdam.

The Rhein-Ruhr area with big cities like Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg,... is over 200 km away

Answer 3

I think Gronau, Amsterdam by A1 or otherwise Elten, Amsterdam by A12