Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region

Encyclopedia : F : FR : FRA : Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region

Frankfurt is the most important city of the Rhein-Main area

Rheingau

Old town of Mainz

Castle of Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg

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, Offenbach, Mainz, and Darmstadt.

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.

See also

• Global city

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)

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.