Frankfurt
Germany · Hessen
Frankfurt am Main, usually shortened to Frankfurt, is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 778,589 inhabitants as of 2025 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the foreland of the Taunus on its namesake river Main, the city forms a continuous conurbation with Offenbach; its urban area has a population of more than 2.7 million. Frankfurt is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region.
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Practical facts
- Local time
- UTC+2 · 8 h ahead of Costa Rica
- Region
- Hessen
- Main language
- German
- On the map
- 50.11° N, 8.68° E
Near Frankfurt
- Mainz · 34 km away
- Ruedesheim am Rhein · 56 km away
- Mannheim · 71 km away
- Heidelberg · 79 km away
- Koblenz · 82 km away
- Wurzburg · 98 km away
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