Middle Franconia
Middle Franconia is the southernmost, central and most urbanized part of Franconia in Germany. Its heart is the urbanized area around Nuremberg Fürth and Erlangen but there are also delightful Bierkeller or natural attractions in its rural parts.
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Middle Franconia
- Regierungsbezirk with about 1,750,000 residents
- Description: administrative region of Franconia in Bavaria, Germany
- Neighbors
- Category: regional district in Bavaria
- Location
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Latitude of center
49.3333° or 49° 20′ north
Longitude of center
10.8333° or 10° 50′ east
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Middle Franconia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mittelfranken”
- Arabic: “فرانكونيا الوسطى”
- Arabic: “فرنكونيا الوسطى”
- Arabic: “محافظة فرنكونيا الوسطى”
- Aragonese: “Franconia Meya”
- Armenian: “Միջին Ֆրանկոնիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Mərkəzi Frankoniya”
- Basque: “Frankonia Erdikoa”
- Bavarian: “Middlfrankn”
- Belarusian: “Сярэдняя Франконія”
- Bulgarian: “Средна Франкония”
- Catalan: “Mittelfranken”
- Cebuano: “Regierungsbezirk Mittelfranken”
- Chinese: “中弗兰肯行政区”
- Chuvash: “Вăта Франкони”
- Crimean Tatar: “Orta Frankoniya”
- Czech: “Střední Franky”
- Danish: “Mittelfranken”
- Dutch: “Bezirk Mittelfranken”
- Dutch: “Middel-Franken”
- Dutch: “Mittelfranken”
- Dutch: “Regierungsbezirk Mittelfranken”
- Esperanto: “Meza Frankonio”
- Estonian: “Kesk-Frangimaa ringkond”
- Estonian: “Kesk-Frangimaa”
- Finnish: “Mittelfranken”
- French: “District de Moyenne-Franconie”
- French: “Moyenne-Franconie”
- Galician: “Franconia Media”
- German: “Bezirk Mittelfranken”
- German: “Mittelfranken (Bezirk)”
- German: “Mittelfranken”
- German: “Regierungsbezirk Mittelfranken”
- German: “Rezatkreis”
- Greek: “Μέση Φρανκονία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mittelfranken”
- Hebrew: “פראנקוניה התיכונה”
- Hebrew: “פרנקוניה התיכונה”
- Hungarian: “Közép-Frankföld”
- Indonesian: “Mittelfranken”
- Interlingue: “Medie Franconia”
- Italian: “Distretto della Media Franconia”
- Italian: “Distretto governativo della Media Franconia”
- Italian: “Media Franconia”
- Japanese: “ミッテルフランケン”
- Japanese: “ミッテルフランケン県”
- Japanese: “ミッテルフランケン行政管区”
- Korean: “미텔프랑켄현”
- Kurdish: “Frankonyaya Navîn”
- Latin: “Provincia Franconia Media”
- Latvian: “Vidusfrankonija”
- Lombard: “Média Francònia”
- Low German: “Middelfranken”
- Luxembourgish: “Mëttelfranken”
- Luxembourgish: “Regierungsbezierk Mëttelfranken”
- Macedonian: “Средна Франконија”
- Northern Frisian: “Mittelfranken”
- Northern Sami: “Mittelfranken (ráđđehusdistrikta)”
- Northern Sami: “Mittelfranken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mittelfranken”
- Norwegian: “Mittelfranken”
- Ossetian: “Астæуккаг Франкони”
- Persian: “فرانکن وسطی”
- Polish: “Środkowa Frankonia”
- Portuguese: “Média Francónia”
- Portuguese: “Mittelfranken”
- Romanian: “Franconia Mijlocie”
- Romanian: “Mittelfranken”
- Russian: “Средняя Франкония”
- Serbian: “Средња Франконија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Srednja Frankonija”
- Slovenian: “Srednja Frankonija”
- Slovenian: “Srednja Frankovska”
- Slovenian: “Srednje Frankovsko”
- Spanish: “Franconia Media”
- Swedish: “Mittelfranken”
- Tajik: “Франкони Миёна”
- Tajik: “Франконияи Миёна”
- Tatar: “Урта Франкония”
- Thai: “มิทเทิลฟรังเคิน”
- Turkish: “Orta Frankonya”
- Ukrainian: “Середня Франконія”
- Urdu: “فرینکونیا وسطی”
- Vietnamese: “Mittelfranken”
- Welsh: “Franconia Canol”
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