Rhine-Main
Rhine-Main is a metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Main. The metropolis is centred on the city of Frankfurt, the largest city in Hesse and Germany's financial powerhouse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.
Frankfurt
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Frankfurt 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 Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne.
Wiesbaden
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Wiesbaden is the capital of the German state of Hesse. Wiesbaden is a historic spa city which has catered to people from countries near and far for many centuries.
Offenbach
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Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Frankfurt Airport and Hanau.
Frankfurt Airport
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Frankfurt Airport is the largest airport in Germany and a global aviation hub on the outskirts of Frankfurt am Main in the state of Hesse.
Hanau
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Hanau is a city in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main and part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region.
Bad Homburg
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Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, commonly referred to as Bad Homburg, is a spa town just outside Frankfurt in Hesse, Germany. With a sizeable castle and old town, the thermal springs and a casino frequented by kings, as well as its present highest per capita wealth in all of Germany, the city adopted an apt motto Champagnerluft und Tradition.
Rüsselsheim
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Rüsselsheim is a city of 65,000 people in Hesse. It is known as a centre of the German automotive industry because of its manufacturing and research facilities. It is also known for its fortress, which dates from 1399.
Gelnhausen
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Gelnhausen is a town, and the capital of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located approximately 40 kilometers east of Frankfurt am Main, between the Vogelsberg mountains and the Spessart range at the river Kinzig.
Seligenstadt
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Seligenstadt is a town in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Seligenstadt is one of Germany's oldest towns and was already of great importance in Carolingian times.
Langen
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Langen is a city in Hesse that is mainly known as the seat of some important federal authorities, including the German air traffic control and the Paul Ehrlich Institute.
Neu-Isenburg
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Neu-Isenburg is a city in Hesse 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.
Oberursel
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Oberursel, or Oberursel, is a small city in Hesse. The city is in the area of the Taunus mountain range in Hesse, north of Frankfurt.
Kelsterbach
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Kelsterbach, also called Kelsterbach am Main for its position on the banks of the Main River into which the Kelsterbach flows, is in Hesse.
Mörfelden
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Mörfelden-Walldorf is a town in the Groß-Gerau district, situated in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region in the federal state Hesse, Germany.
Rhine-Main
- Type: Region with 2,200,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan region in Germany
- Also known as: “Frankfurt Rhine-Main” and “Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region”
- Category: metropolitan region in Germany
- Location: Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Rhine-Main” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Rajoni metropol Frankfurt Rhein-Main”
- Albanian: “Regjioni metropol Frankfurt Rhein-Main”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon métropolitan Rhine-Main”
- Catalan: “regió Rin-Main”
- Chinese: “法蘭克福-萊茵-美因大都會區”
- Chinese: “法蘭克福萊茵-美茵都會區”
- Chinese: “莱茵-美因区”
- Chinese: “莱茵-美因城市群”
- Chinese: “莱茵-美因都会区”
- Chinese: “莱茵/美因城市群”
- Chinese: “萊茵-美因區”
- Chinese: “萊茵-美因城市群”
- Chinese: “萊茵-美因都會區”
- Chinese: “萊茵/美因城市羣”
- Chinese: “萊茵/美因城市群”
- Croatian: “Frankfurt Rajna-Majna”
- Danish: “Metropolregion Frankfurt Rhein-Main”
- Danish: “Metropolregion Rhien-Main”
- Danish: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Danish: “Rhein-Main”
- Dutch: “Frankfurt/Rhein-Main”
- Dutch: “Rijn-Main-Gebied”
- Dutch: “Rijn-Maingebied”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Rejno-Majno”
- Finnish: “Rein-Main”
- Finnish: “Rein–Main”
- Finnish: “Reinin–Mainin alue”
- Finnish: “Rhein-Main”
- French: “Region Rhin-Main”
- French: “Région Rhin-Main”
- German: “Metropolregion Frankfurt Rhein-Main”
- German: “Metropolregion Rhein-Main”
- German: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- German: “Rhein-Main”
- Greek: “Περιοχή Ρήνου-Μάιν”
- Hebrew: “פרנקפורט ריין-מיין”
- Hungarian: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Italian: “regione metropolitana Reno-Meno”
- Italian: “Regione metropolitana Reno-Meno”
- Japanese: “フランクフルト/ライン＝マイン大都市圏”
- Japanese: “ライン＝マイン地域”
- Japanese: “ライン＝マイン地方”
- Japanese: “ライン＝マイン都市圏”
- Lithuanian: “Reinas-Mainas”
- Lithuanian: “Reino-Maino sritis”
- Macedonian: “Рајна-Мајна”
- Manx: “Frankfurt/Rhein-Main”
- Northern Frisian: “Metropoolregiuun Rhein-Main”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rhein-Main-området”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rhein-Main”
- Norwegian: “Rhein-Main-området”
- Persian: “فرانکفورت راین-ماین”
- Polish: “Region Ren-Men”
- Portuguese: “Região metropolitana Frankfurt/Reno-Meno”
- Russian: “столичный регион Франкфурт-Рейн-Майн”
- Serbian: “Rajna-Majna”
- Serbian: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Serbian: “Рајна-Мајна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Frankfurt Rajna-Majna”
- Slovenian: “Metropolitansko območje Frankfurt Ren - Majna”
- Spanish: “Region Rin Meno”
- Spanish: “Región Rin Meno”
- Spanish: “Region Rin-Meno”
- Spanish: “Región Rin-Meno”
- Spanish: “Rhein Main Gebiet”
- Spanish: “Rhein Main-Gebiet”
- Spanish: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Swedish: “Rhein-Main-området”
- Swedish: “Rhein-Main”
- Swedish: “Rhen-Main-området”
- Swedish: “Rhen-Main”
- Tagalog: “Francfort Rin-Meno”
- Tosk Albanian: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Turkish: “Ren-Main”
- Vietnamese: “Frankfurt/Rhein-Main”
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