Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region
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The officially designated Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, often referred to as Frankfurt Rhine Main Area or Rhine Main Area (German: Rhein-Main-Gebiet) is a Greater Metropolitan Region located in central western Germany, that encompasses parts of three federal states: Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria and the industrially important cities of Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Offenbach, Mainz, Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg.
The polycentric region is named after its core city Frankfurt and the rivers Rhine and Main. The Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, as officially designated as a European Metropolitan Area by Germany's Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, has a population exceeding 5.8 million and covers an area of roughly 13,000 square kilometers (5,019.3 sq mi).
The growth of the area is chiefly to be traced to the favorable communications, that promoted an early industrialization. Today, the importance of productive industries are to a great extent substituted by that of banking, trade and logistics. The central location is still of importance: within six hours are Paris, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland reached by truck or train.
