Skyscrapers in Downtown Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, often referred to as Rhine Main Area (German: Rhein-Main Gebiet) or Greater Frankfurt is a Metropolitan Area located in central western Germany, that encompasses parts of three federal states: Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria. It contains the cities Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Mainz, and Darmstadt. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 738 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Frankfurt Rhine Main Area Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 738 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Frankfurt Rhine Main Area Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germanys sixteen federal states (Bundesländer) and has an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... River Main and the skyline (help· info) is the largest city in the German Federal State of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. ... Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... Mainz (French: Mayence) is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ...

The polycentric region is named after its core city Frankfurt and the rivers Rhine and Main. The Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, as officially designated as a European Metropolitan Area by Germany's Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, has a population exceeding 5.2 million and covers an area of roughly 13,000 km² River Main and the skyline (help· info) is the largest city in the German Federal State of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. ... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... Map showing the position of the Main in Germany The Main (pronounced in FUCKKKK GERmany! German like the English word mine) is a river in Germany, 524 km long (including White Main 574 km), and one of the more significant tributaries of the Rhine river. ...

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• Global city

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External Links

• Planungsverband Ballungsraum Frankfurt / Rhein-Main
• Region Frankfurt RheinMain online - Gateway to Europe
• Frankfurt International Airport
• Rhein-Main Metropolitan Transit
• Frankfurt Economic Support
• Hallo-Rhein-Main: Non commercial regional portal for Rhein-Main region (German only)