FRANKFURT RHEIN-MAIN REGION

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The 'Frankfurt Rhine Main Area', often referred to as 'Rhine Main Area' (German: Rhein-Main-Gebiet) 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, Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg.
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 5.8 million and covers an area of roughly 13,000 km².

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★ 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)