Main
The Main is a river in central Germany. It is the longest tributary of the Rhine, one of the major European rivers. It rises as the White Main in the Fichtel Mountains of northeastern Bavaria and flows west for 525 kilometres to meet the Rhine below Rüsselsheim, Hesse.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Stream
- Description: right tributary of Rhine river in Germany
- Also known as: “Mein”, “rio Meno”, “Майн (приток Рейна)”, and “Майн (река)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mainspitze and Südbrücke.
Südbrücke
Bridge
Photo: Felix.matheis, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mainz-Kostheim and Mainz.
Main
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.99427° or 49° 59′ 39″ north
Longitude
8.29447° or 8° 17′ 40″ east
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Open location code
8FXCX7VV+PQ
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Main” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Main”
- Albanian: “Lumi i Majnit”
- Albanian: “Main”
- Arabic: “ماين”
- Aragonese: “Main”
- Armenian: “Մայն”
- Arpitan: “Main”
- Asturian: “Main”
- Azerbaijani: “Mayn”
- Basque: “Main”
- Bavarian: “Moa”
- Belarusian: “Майн”
- Bengali: “মাইন নদী”
- Bosnian: “Majna”
- Breton: “Main”
- Bulgarian: “Майн”
- Catalan: “Main”
- Cebuano: “Main”
- Chinese: “美因河”
- Chuvash: “Майн”
- Corsican: “Main”
- Croatian: “Majna”
- Czech: “Mohan”
- Danish: “Main”
- Dutch: “Main”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ماين”
- Esperanto: “Majno”
- Estonian: “Main”
- Finnish: “Main”
- French: “Main”
- Friulian: “Main”
- Galician: “río Main”
- Galician: “Río Main”
- Georgian: “მაინი”
- German: “Main”
- Greek: “Μάιν”
- Haitian: “Men”
- Hebrew: “מיין”
- Hungarian: “Majna”
- Icelandic: “Main”
- Ido: “Main”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Main”
- Interlingua: “Main”
- Interlingue: “Main”
- Irish: “Main”
- Italian: “Meno”
- Japanese: “マイン川”
- Jèrriais: “Main”
- Kazakh: “Майн”
- Kongo: “Main”
- Korean: “마인강”
- Latin: “Moenus”
- Latvian: “Maina”
- Ligurian: “Main”
- Limburgan: “Main”
- Lithuanian: “Mainas”
- Lombard: “Men”
- Lombard: “Mèn”
- Low German: “Main”
- Lower Sorbian: “Mohan”
- Luxembourgish: “Main”
- Macedonian: “Мајна”
- Mainfränkisch: “Mee”
- Malagasy: “Main”
- Malay: “Main”
- Malayalam: “മൈൻ നദി”
- Marathi: “माइन नदी”
- Mazanderani: “ماین روخنه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Main Hô”
- Minangkabau: “Main”
- Mingrelian: “მაინი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “მაინი”
- Neapolitan: “Main”
- Northern Frisian: “Main”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Main”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Main”
- Norwegian: “Main”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Main”
- Ossetian: “Майн”
- Persian: “رود ماین”
- Picard: “Main”
- Piemontese: “Men”
- Polish: “Men”
- Portuguese: “Main”
- Portuguese: “Rio Meno”
- Romanian: “Main”
- Romansh: “Main”
- Russian: “Майн”
- Sardinian: “Main”
- Saterfriesisch: “Main”
- Scots: “Main”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Abhainn Main”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Main”
- Serbian: “Main”
- Serbian: “Мајна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Majna”
- Sicilian: “Main”
- Slovak: “Mohan”
- Slovenian: “Majna”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماین چایی”
- Spanish: “río Meno”
- Spanish: “Río Meno”
- Swahili: “Main”
- Swedish: “Main”
- Swiss German: “Main”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำไมน์”
- Turkish: “Main”
- Ukrainian: “Майн”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mohan”
- Uzbek: “Mayn”
- Venetian: “Main”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Main”
- Vlaams: “Main”
- Volapük: “Main”
- Walloon: “Main”
- Welsh: “Afon Main”
- Western Frisian: “Main”
- Wolof: “Main”
- Wu Chinese: “美因河”
- Wu Chinese: “美茵河”
- Yue Chinese: “美茵河”
- Zulu: “Main”
- “Main”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Oberstadt and Weisenau.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Malakoff Caponier and Hyatt Regency Mainz.
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Worth a closer look: Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.
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