COLOGNE, one of the governments into which the
Prussian dominions on the Rhine are divided. It is bounded on the north by Dusseldorf, on the east by Arensburg, on the south by Coblenz, and on the west by Aix-la-Chapelle. It extends over 1350 square miles, or 864,000 acres; and in 1827 it contained 367,580 inhabitants, of whom 296,400 were Catholics, 48,600 Protestants of the Lutheran confession, and the rest Calvinists, Menonites, and Jews. It comprehends fifteen cities, seven market-towns, and 583 villages.