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Hesse is a state in west-central , with around six million inhabitants, most of them living in the region of the southwest. The rest of Hesse is hilly, with 40 per cent of the land area covered by forests.
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is the largest city in the German state of Hesse, and is considered the business and financial centre of Germany. It is the fifth largest city in Germany after , , and .

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is the capital of the state of Hesse. is a historic spa city which has catered to people from countries near and far for many centuries.

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is a city south of in Hesse, with a population of 160,000. is famous for its Jugendstil buildings. Many of the buildings survived the massive destruction of in September 1944.

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is a metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Main. The metropolis is centred on the city of , the largest city in Hesse and Germany's financial powerhouse.

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is a region in the Hesse state of . The destination is in the uplands of Central Germany.

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Darmstadt is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, , located in the south of the state. The other two Regierungsbezirke are and .

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The is a region on the northern side of the Rhine between the German towns of and Lorch near , reaching from the Western to the Rhine.

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The is a low mountain range in , Middle Hesse and the in southern .

Hesse

Latitude of center
50.6081° or 50° 36′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
9.0285° or 9° 1′ 43″ east
Population
6,020,000
Elevation
264 metres (866 feet)
Abbreviation
“HE”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2497852043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2905330
Wiki­data ID
Q1199
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hesse” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hesse”
  • Albanian: “Hesia”
  • Amharic: “ሄሠ”
  • Arabic: “هسن”
  • Aragonese: “Hesse”
  • Armenian: “Հեսսեն”
  • Arpitan: “Hèssa”
  • Arpitan: “Hesse”
  • Asturian: “Hesse”
  • Asturian: “Hessen”
  • Aymara: “Hessen suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hessen”
  • Balinese: “Hesse”
  • Bashkir: “ba”
  • Bashkir: “Германияның үҙәк өлөшөндәге ер. Баш ҡалаһы — Висбаден.”
  • Bashkir: “Һессен”
  • Basque: “Hessen”
  • Bavarian: “Hessn”
  • Belarusian: “Гесэн”
  • Belarusian: “Гэсэн”
  • Bengali: “হেসেন”
  • Bosnian: “Hessen”
  • Breton: “Hessen”
  • Bulgarian: “Хесен”
  • Catalan: “Hessen”
  • Cebuano: “Hessen”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھێسن”
  • Chechen: “Гессен”
  • Chinese: “Hessen”
  • Chinese: “希燊”
  • Chinese: “黑森”
  • Chinese: “黑森州”
  • Chuvash: “Гессен”
  • Cornish: “Hesse”
  • Corsican: “Assia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gessen”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hessen”
  • Croatian: “Hessen”
  • Czech: “Hesensko”
  • Dagbani: “Hesse”
  • Danish: “Hessen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hessen”
  • Dutch: “Hessen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيسين”
  • Esperanto: “Hesio”
  • Estonian: “Hessen”
  • Faroese: “Hessen”
  • Finnish: “Hessen”
  • French: “Etat de Hesse”
  • French: “État de Hesse”
  • French: “Hesse”
  • French: “Hessen”
  • French: “Land Hessen”
  • Friulian: “Assie”
  • Galician: “Hessen”
  • Georgian: “ჰესენი”
  • German: “DE-HE”
  • German: “Groß-Hessen”
  • German: “HE”
  • German: “Hessen”
  • German: “Land Hessen”
  • Greek: “Έσεν”
  • Greek: “Έσση”
  • Guarani: “Hesse”
  • Gujarati: “હેસે”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hesse”
  • Hebrew: “הסה”
  • Hebrew: “הסן”
  • Hindi: “हेसे”
  • Hungarian: “Hessen”
  • Icelandic: “Hessen”
  • Ido: “Hesia”
  • Iloko: “Hesse”
  • Indonesian: “Hesse”
  • Indonesian: “Hessen”
  • Interlingua: “Hesse”
  • Interlingua: “Hessen”
  • Interlingue: “Hesse”
  • Irish: “Hessen”
  • Italian: “Assia”
  • Japanese: “ヘッセン州”
  • Javanese: “Hessen”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಸ್ಸೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Гессен”
  • Kirghiz: “Гессен”
  • Kölsch: “Hessen”
  • Kongo: “Hessen”
  • Korean: “헤센 주”
  • Korean: “헤센”
  • Korean: “헤센주”
  • Kurdish: “Hessen”
  • Ladin: “DE-HE”
  • Ladin: “Hessen”
  • Ladin: “Land Hessen”
  • Ladino: “Hesse”
  • Latin: “Hassia”
  • Latvian: “Hesene”
  • Ligurian: “Assia”
  • Limburgan: “Hesse”
  • Lingala: “Héssɛnɛ́”
  • Literary Chinese: “黑森”
  • Lithuanian: “Hesenas”
  • Lombard: “Assia”
  • Low German: “Hessen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Hesseńska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hessen”
  • Macedonian: “Хесен”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Hessä”
  • Malagasy: “Hessen”
  • Malay: “Hesse”
  • Manx: “Hessen”
  • Marathi: “हेसेन”
  • Mazanderani: “هسن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hessen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hessen”
  • Moksha: “Гэссэн”
  • Mongolian: “Хессен”
  • Narom: “Hesse”
  • Neapolitan: “Assia”
  • Nepali: “हेसे”
  • Nepali: “हेस्न्”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hessen”
  • Northern Sami: “Hessen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hessen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hessen”
  • Norwegian: “Hessen”
  • Novial: “Hesia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Èssa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hetwaraland”
  • Ossetian: “Гессен”
  • Pampanga: “Hesse”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈੱਸਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Hessen”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Hesse”
  • Persian: “هسن”
  • Persian: “هسه”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Hesse”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Hessen”
  • Piemontese: “Assia”
  • Polish: “Hesja”
  • Portuguese: “Hesse”
  • Portuguese: “Hessen”
  • Pushto: “هسن”
  • Quechua: “Hessen”
  • Romanian: “Hassia”
  • Romanian: “Hessa”
  • Romanian: “Hessen”
  • Romanian: “statul Hessa”
  • Romansh: “Hessen”
  • Russian: “Гессен”
  • Sardinian: “Àssia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hessen”
  • Scots: “Hesse”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hessen”
  • Serbian: “Хесен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hessen”
  • Sicilian: “Hessen”
  • Sindhi: “ھيسن”
  • Sinhala: “හෙසේ”
  • Slovak: “Hesensko”
  • Slovenian: “Hesija”
  • Slovenian: “Hessen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هسن”
  • Spanish: “Hesse”
  • Spanish: “Hessen”
  • Swahili: “Hesse”
  • Swedish: “Hessen”
  • Swiss German: “Hesse”
  • Tagalog: “Hesse”
  • Tajik: “Ҳессен”
  • Talysh: “Hessen”
  • Tamil: “கெஸ்சன்”
  • Tamil: “ஹெஸென்”
  • Tatar: “Hessen”
  • Tatar: “Һессен”
  • Telugu: “హెస్”
  • Thai: “รัฐเฮ็สเซิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hessen”
  • Turkish: “Hessen”
  • Turkmen: “Hessen”
  • Ukrainian: “Гессен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hessenska”
  • Urdu: “ہیسے”
  • Uzbek: “Hessen”
  • Venetian: “Asia”
  • Venetian: “Àsia”
  • Venetian: “Assia”
  • Vietnamese: “Hessen”
  • Vlaams: “Essen”
  • Vlaams: “Hessen”
  • Volapük: “Hesän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hessen”
  • Welsh: “Hessen”
  • Western Armenian: “Հեսսեն”
  • Western Frisian: “Hessen”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیسے”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑森”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑森州”
  • Yiddish: “העסע”
  • Yoruba: “Hesse”
  • Yue Chinese: “黑森”
  • Zeeuws: “Hessen”
  • “Àsia”
  • “Hessen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hesse”. Photo: Pedelecs, CC BY-SA 3.0.