Frankfurt

Frankfurt is the largest city in the German state of , and is considered the business and financial centre of Germany. It is the fifth largest city in Germany after , , and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Innenstadt and Altstadt.

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The is the central city district of Frankfurt am Main, . It is part of the Ortsbezirk I. Its western part forms part of Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel.

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is in Frankfurt. The old town of Frankfurt with the Römer and the Imperial Cathedral is surrounded by the city centre which is enclosed by the Main River and the former ramparts, now a green space.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as West Frankfurt and Ost.

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Frankfurt West is in Frankfurt.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Städel.

Marketplace
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The is the world's 3rd oldest and 12th largest stock exchange by market capitalization. It has operations from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm.

Museum
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The , officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany.

Railway station
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is the busiest train station in the German state of and the second busiest train station in Germany behind .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Offenbach and Neu-Isenburg.

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am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river . It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger .

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is a city in that borders directly in the north to Frankfurt. The city is regionally known for its proximity to the Frankfurt airport, its shopping mall and some nicer garden restaurants.

Suburb
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Sachsenhausen-Nord and Sachsenhausen-Süd are two quarters of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The division into a northern and a southern part is mostly for administrative purposes as is generally considered a single entity.

Frankfurt

  • Type: City with 701,000 residents
  • Description: most populated city of Hesse, Germany
  • Also known as: “Baile Átha na bhFranc”, “Ffm”, “FFM”, “Ffm.”, “Fft.”, “Francfort-sur-le-main”, “Francfort-sur-le-Mein”, “Franckfurt am Mayn”, “Francoforte do Meno”, “Francofuerte del Meno”, “Frangkfort kang Meno”, “Frangkfort king Menu”, “Frangkfort ng Meno”, “Frangkfort ning Menu”, “Frankford-on-Main”, “Frankfort”, “Frankfort aan de Main”, “Frankfort on the Main”, “Frankfort-on-the-Main”, “Frankfurt (Main)”, “Frankfurt a. M.”, “Frankfurt a. Main”, “Frankfurt a.M.”, “Frankfurt aan de Main”, “Frankfurt am Main”, “Frankfurt am Main, Germany”, “Frankfurt, Germany”, “Frankobrod*”, “Internationale Messestadt”, “Kreisfreie Stadt Frankfurt am Main”, “Mainhattan”, “Majna-Frankfurt”, “Франкфурт (Мајна)”, “Франкфурт (Хесен)”, “Франкфурт Ам Майн”, “Франкфурт-ам-Майн”, “Франкфурт-ам-Майне”, “Франкфурти лаби Майн”, “פפדַ‘ם”, “פרַנקפורט דמיין”, “פרנקפורט על הנהר מיין”, “فرینک فورٹ”, “فرینکفورٹ”, “ফ্রাঙ্কফুর্ট আম মাইন”, and “フランクフルト”
  • Postal codes: 60552 and 60559
  • Neighbors:
  • Categories: big city, free imperial city, college town, financial center, European City, free city, urban municipality in Germany, urban district of Hesse, business cluster, global city, human settlement, and locality
  • Location: , , , ,
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Latitude
50.1106° or 50° 6′ 38″ north
Longitude
8.6821° or 8° 40′ 56″ east
Population
701,000
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
Abbreviation
“FFM”
IATA airport code
FRA
United Nations Location Code
DE FRA
Open location code
9F2C4M6J+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27418664
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2925533
Wiki­data ID
Q1794
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Frankfurt” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Albanian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Albanian: “Frankfurti mbi Main”
  • Albanian: “Frankfurti mbi Majn”
  • Amharic: “ፍራንክፉርት”
  • Arabic: “فرانكفورت”
  • Aragonese: “Fráncfort d’o Meno”
  • Aragonese: “Frankfurt d’o Main”
  • Armenian: “Մայնի Ֆրանկֆուրտ”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրանկֆուրտ”
  • Arpitan: “Francfôrt-sus-lo-Men”
  • Arpitan: “Francfort”
  • Assamese: “ফ্ৰেংকফুট”
  • Asturian: “Frankfurt del Main”
  • Asturian: “Frankfurt”
  • Azerbaijani: “Frankfurt-Mayn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Frankfurt”
  • Balinese: “Frankfurt”
  • Bashkir: “Майндағы Франкфурт”
  • Basque: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Basque: “Frankfurt”
  • Bavarian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Belarusian: “Франкфурт-на-Майне”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রাঙ্কফুর্ট”
  • Bengali: “ফ্র্যাংকফার্ট”
  • Bosnian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Bosnian: “Frankfurt na Majni”
  • Bosnian: “Frankfurt”
  • Breton: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Breton: “Frankfurt”
  • Bulgarian: “Франкфурт на Майн”
  • Burmese: “ဖရန့်ဖွတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Frankfurt del Main”
  • Cebuano: “Frangkfort sa Meno”
  • Cebuano: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Central Kurdish: “فرانکفورت”
  • Chechen: “Майн-тӀера-Франкфурт”
  • Chinese: “法兰克福”
  • Chinese: “法蘭克福”
  • Chinese: “美因河畔法兰克福”
  • Chinese: “美茵河畔法蘭克福”
  • Chuvash: “Майнри Франкфурт”
  • Chuvash: “Франкфурт”
  • Cornish: “Frankfurt”
  • Corsican: “Francuforte nant’à u Menu”
  • Corsican: “Frankfurt”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Frankfurt am Mayn”
  • Croatian: “Frankfurt na Majni”
  • Czech: “Frankfurt nad Mohanem”
  • Danish: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Frankfurtê Maini”
  • Dutch: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فرانكفورت”
  • Emilian: “Francfòrt”
  • Erzya: “Франкфурт”
  • Esperanto: “Frankfurto ĉe Majno”
  • Estonian: “Frankfurt”
  • Extremaduran: “Frankfurt del Menu”
  • Faroese: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Finnish: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Finnish: “Frankfurt”
  • French: “Francfort-sur-le-Main”
  • French: “Francfort”
  • Gagauz: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Galician: “Fráncfort”
  • Galician: “Frankfurt”
  • Gan Chinese: “法蘭克福”
  • Georgian: “მაინის ფრანკფურტი”
  • Georgian: “ფრანკფურტ-ამ-მაინი”
  • Georgian: “ფრანკფურტი”
  • German: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • German: “Frankfurt”
  • German: “Frankfurt/Main”
  • German: “Franckfurt” (historical)
  • Greek: “Φραγκφούρτη”
  • Greek: “Φρανκφούρτη”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રેંકફર્ટ”
  • Haitian: “Frankfurt”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Frankfurt”
  • Hausa: “Frankfurt”
  • Hebrew: “פרנקפורט על המיין”
  • Hebrew: “פרנקפורט”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रैंकफ़र्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Hungarian: “Frankfurt”
  • Icelandic: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Icelandic: “Frankfurt”
  • Ido: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Ido: “Frankfurt”
  • Indonesian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Indonesian: “Frankfurt”
  • Interlingua: “Francoforte super le Meno”
  • Interlingua: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Interlingua: “Frankfurt”
  • Interlingue: “Frankfurt”
  • Irish: “Frankfurt”
  • Italian: “Francoforte sul Meno”
  • Italian: “Francoforte”
  • Japanese: “フランクフルト・アム・マイン”
  • Javanese: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Javanese: “Frankfurt”
  • Jèrriais: “Francfort-sur-le-Main”
  • Kabyle: “Frankfurt”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರಾಂಕ್ಫರ್ಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರಾಂಕ್‌ಫರ್ಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರಾಂಕ್‌ಫುರ್ಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Frankfurt”
  • Kazakh: “Майндағы Франкфурт”
  • Kinaray-A: “Frangkofuwerte sa Meno”
  • Kirghiz: “Майндагы Франкфурт”
  • Kirghiz: “Франкфурт-на-Майне”
  • Kölsch: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Kölsch: “Frankfurt”
  • Komi: “Майн вылын Франкфурт”
  • Korean: “프랑크푸르트”
  • Korean: “프랑크푸르트암마인”
  • Kotava: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Kurdish: “Frankfurt”
  • Ladin: “Frankfurt sul Main”
  • Ladino: “Frankfurt”
  • Latin: “Francofurtum ad Moenum”
  • Latvian: “Frankfurte pie Mainas”
  • Ligurian: “Francoforte in scio Men”
  • Ligurian: “Francoforte inscio Men”
  • Limburgan: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Lithuanian: “Frankfurtas prie Maino”
  • Lombard: “Francufort sül Men”
  • Low German: “Frankfort an’n Main”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Frankfurt nad Mainom”
  • Luxembourgish: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Macedonian: “Франкфурт на Мајна”
  • Malagasy: “Franckfort/Main”
  • Malay: “Frankfurt”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്രാങ്ക്ഫർട്ട്”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്രാൻഫർട്ട്”
  • Maltese: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Maltese: “Frankfurt”
  • Manx: “Frankfurt”
  • Marathi: “फ्रांकफुर्ट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Mingrelian: “მაინიშ ფრანკფურტი”
  • Moksha: “Франкфурт ам Майн”
  • Moksha: “Франкфурт”
  • Mongolian: “Майн дахь Франкфурт”
  • Mongolian: “Майны Франкфурт”
  • Nauru: “Frankfurt”
  • Neapolitan: “Frankfurt”
  • Nepali: “फ्र्याङ्कफर्ट”
  • Newari: “फ्राङ्कफर्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Northern Sami: “Frankfurt”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Frankfurt”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Norwegian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Novial: “Frankfurt”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Francfòrt de Men”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Francfòrt sul Main”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Francford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Frankfurt”
  • Ossetian: “Франкфурт-Майныл”
  • Pampanga: “Frangkofuerti king Menu”
  • Pampanga: “Frankfurt”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਰਾਂਕਫ਼ੁਰਟ”
  • Papiamento: “Frankfurt”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Frankfurt”
  • Persian: “فرانکفورت آم ماین”
  • Persian: “فرانکفورت”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Picard: “Frankfort-su-Main”
  • Piemontese: “Franchfort sël Men”
  • Polish: “Frankfurt nad Menem”
  • Portuguese: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Portuguese: “Frankfurt”
  • Pushto: “فرانکفورت”
  • Quechua: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Quechua: “Frankfurt”
  • Romanian: “Frankfurt pe Main”
  • Romanian: “Frankfurt”
  • Romansh: “Frankfurt”
  • Russia Buriat: “Майндахи Франкфурт”
  • Russian: “Франкфурт-на-Майне”
  • Russian: “Франкфурт”
  • Samogitian: “Frankforts”
  • Sardinian: “Francoforte sul Meno”
  • Sardinian: “Francuforte subra su Menu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Frankfurt an ’n Main”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Frankfurt an n Main”
  • Scots: “Frankfurt”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Frankfurt”
  • Serbian: “Франкфурт на Мајни”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Frankfurt na Majni”
  • Sicilian: “Francuforti supr’ô Menu”
  • Sicilian: “Francuforti suprô Menu”
  • Silesian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Sindhi: “فرينڪفرٽ”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රෑන්ක්ෆර්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Frankfurt nad Mohanom”
  • Slovenian: “Frankfurt na Majni”
  • Slovenian: “Frankfurt ob Majni”
  • Somali: “Frankfurt”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرانکفورت”
  • Spanish: “Fráncfort del Meno”
  • Spanish: “Francfort”
  • Spanish: “Fráncfort”
  • Spanish: “Frankfurt”
  • Sundanese: “Frankfurt”
  • Swahili: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Swedish: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Swiss German: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Tagalog: “Francfort del Meno”
  • Tagalog: “Frankfurt”
  • Tajik: “Франкфурт”
  • Talysh: “Frankfurt Majnədə”
  • Talysh: “Frankfurt Mayn”
  • Tamil: “பிராங்க்ஃபுர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Франкфурт”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రాంక్‌ఫర్ట్”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రాంక్ఫుర్ట్”
  • Tetum: “Frankfurt”
  • Thai: “แฟรงก์เฟิร์ต”
  • Thai: “แฟรงค์เฟิร์ต”
  • Tok Pisin: “Frankfet”
  • Tumbuka: “Frankfurt”
  • Turkish: “Frankfurt”
  • Twi: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Udmurt: “Франкфурт”
  • Uighur: “Frankfort”
  • Uighur: “فرانكفورت”
  • Ukrainian: “Франкфурт-на-Майні”
  • Ukrainian: “Франкфурт”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Frankobrod nad Mohanom”
  • Urdu: “فرینکفرٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Uzbek: “Frankfurtmayn”
  • Venetian: “Francoforte sul Men”
  • Venetian: “Francofòrte sul Mèn”
  • Venetian: “Francoforte sul Meno”
  • Veps: “Frankfurt Mainal”
  • Vietnamese: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Vietnamese: “Frankfurt”
  • Vlaams: “Frankfurt”
  • Volapük: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Volapük: “Frankfurt len Main”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Welsh: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Welsh: “Frankfurt”
  • Western Armenian: “Ֆրանքֆուրթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • Western Frisian: “Frankfurt”
  • Western Mari: “Франкфурт-Майн-вӹлнӹ”
  • Western Panjabi: “فرینکفرٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “法兰克福”
  • Xhosa: “Frankfurt”
  • Yakut: “Франкфурт”
  • Yiddish: “פראנקפורט”
  • Yoruba: “Frankfurt”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlu Frankfọrtì”
  • Yue Chinese: “法蘭克福”
  • Zeeuws: “Frankfurt am Main”
  • “Frankfurt am Main”
  • “Frankfurt in Main”
  • “ma tomo Panpu”

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