Frankfurt Rhine Main Region
- Frankfurt Rhine Main Region
The officially designated Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, often referred to as "Frankfurt Rhine Main Area" or "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 and the industrially important cities of 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 km2 to mi2|13000|wiki=yes.
The growth of the area is chiefly to be traced to the favorable communications, that promoted an early industrialization. Today, the importance of productive industries are to a great extent substituted by that of banking, trade and logistics. The central location is still of importance: within six hours are Paris, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland reached by truck or train.
See also
* Global city
External links
* [http://www.pvfrm.de/ Planungsverband Ballungsraum Frankfurt / Rhein-Main]
* [http://www.region-frankfurt-rheinmain.de/RheinMain/englisch/e_home.html Region Frankfurt RheinMain online - Gateway to Europe]
* [http://www.airportcity-frankfurt.com/ Frankfurt International Airport]
* [http://www.rmv.de/ Rhein-Main Metropolitan Transit]
* [http://www.wirtschaftsfoerderung-frankfurt.de/ Frankfurt Economic Support]
* [http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/media.php/738/Imagebrosch%C3%BCre%20Region2007.pdf One region - Boundless possibilities]
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