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.
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Rhine-Main
- Type: Region with 2,200,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan region in Germany
- Also known as: “Frankfurt Rhine-Main”, “Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region”, “Metropolregion Frankfurt Rhein-Main”, “Metropolregion Rhein-Main”, “Metropolregion Rhien-Main”, “Region Rhin-Main”, “Region Rin Meno”, “Región Rin Meno”, “Region Rin-Meno”, “Rein-Main”, “Reinas-Mainas”, “Rhein Main Gebiet”, “Rhein Main-Gebiet”, “Rhein-Main”, “Rhen-Main”, “Rhine-Main Region”, “Rijn-Main-Gebied”, “フランクフルト/ライン＝マイン大都市圏”, “ライン＝マイン地域”, “ライン＝マイン都市圏”, “法蘭克福萊茵-美茵都會區”, “莱茵-美因区”, “莱茵-美因都会区”, “萊茵-美因城市群”, “萊茵-美因都會區”, “萊茵/美因城市羣”, and “萊茵/美因城市群”
- Category: metropolitan region in Germany
- Location: Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
50° north
Longitude of center
8.6667° or 8° 40′ east
Population
2,200,000
Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)
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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: “莱茵-美因城市群”
- Chinese: “莱茵/美因城市群”
- Chinese: “萊茵-美因區”
- Croatian: “Frankfurt Rajna-Majna”
- Danish: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Dutch: “Rijn-Maingebied”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Rejno-Majno”
- Finnish: “Rein–Main”
- Finnish: “Reinin–Mainin alue”
- French: “Région Rhin-Main”
- German: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Greek: “Περιοχή Ρήνου-Μάιν”
- Hebrew: “פרנקפורט ריין-מיין”
- Hungarian: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Italian: “regione metropolitana Reno-Meno”
- Italian: “Regione metropolitana Reno-Meno”
- Japanese: “ライン＝マイン地方”
- Lithuanian: “Reino-Maino sritis”
- Luxembourgish: “Rhäin-Main-Gebitt”
- Macedonian: “Рајна-Мајна”
- Manx: “Frankfurt/Rhein-Main”
- Northern Frisian: “Metropoolregiuun Rhein-Main”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rhein-Main-området”
- 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: “Рајна-Мајна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Frankfurt Rajna-Majna”
- Slovenian: “Metropolitansko območje Frankfurt Ren - Majna”
- Spanish: “Región Rin-Meno”
- Swedish: “Rhen-Main-området”
- Swiss German: “Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
- Tagalog: “Francfort Rin-Meno”
- Turkish: “Ren-Main”
- Vietnamese: “Frankfurt/Rhein-Main”
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