Hesse
Hesse is a state in west-central Germany, with around six million inhabitants, most of them living in the Rhine-Main region of the southwest. The rest of Hesse is hilly, with 40 per cent of the land area covered by forests.Tap on the map to travel |
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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.
Darmstadt
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Darmstadt is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area.
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Rhine-Main
Rhine-Main is a metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Main.North Hesse
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North Hesse, German: Nordhessen, is a region in the Hesse state of Germany.
South Hesse
Darmstadt is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the south of the state.Rheingau
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The Rheingau is a region on the northern side of the Rhine between the German towns of Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the Western Taunus to the Rhine.
Taunus
The Taunus is a low mountain range in South Hesse, Middle Hesse and the Rhineland-Palatinate in southern Germany.Hesse
- Type: State with 6,020,000 residents
- Description: state in the center of Germany
- Neighbors: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia
- Categories: federated state of Germany and locality
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
50.6081° or 50° 36' 29" northLongitude of center
9.0285° or 9° 1' 43" eastPopulation
6,020,000Elevation
264 metres (866 feet)Abbreviation
HEOpenStreetMap ID
node 2497852043OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
2905330Wikidata ID
Q1199Hesse Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Hesse
- Albanian: Hesia
- Amharic: ሄሠ
- Arabic: Hessen
- Arabic: هسن
- Aragonese: Hesse
- Armenian: Հեսսեն
- Arpitan: Hesse
- Arpitan: Hèssa
- Asturian: Hesse
- Asturian: Hessen
- Aymara: Hessen suyu
- Azerbaijani: Hessen
- Balinese: Hesse
- Bashkir: ba
- Bashkir: Германияның үҙәк өлөшөндәге ер. Баш ҡалаһы — Висбаден.
- Bashkir: Һессен
- Basque: Hessen
- Bavarian: Hessn
- Belarusian: Гесэн
- Belarusian: Гэсэн
- Bengali: হেসেন
- Bosnian: Hessen
- Breton: Hessen
- Bulgarian: Хесен
- Catalan: Hessen
- Cebuano: Hessen
- Central Kurdish: ھێسن
- Chechen: Гессен
- Chinese: Hessen
- Chinese: 希燊
- Chinese: 黑森
- Chinese: 黑森州
- Chuvash: Гессен
- Cornish: Hesse
- Corsican: Assia
- Crimean Tatar: Gessen
- Crimean Tatar: Hessen
- Croatian: Hessen
- Czech: Hesensko
- Danish: Hessen
- Dimli (individual language): Hessen
- Dutch: Hessen
- Egyptian Arabic: هيسين
- English: Greater-Hessen
- English: Hassen
- English: Hassia
- English: Hessen
- English: Land Hessen
- English: State of Hessen
- Esperanto: Hesio
- Estonian: Hessen
- Faroese: Hessen
- Finnish: Hessen
- French: Etat de Hesse
- French: Hesse
- French: Hessen
- French: Land Hessen
- French: État de Hesse
- Friulian: Assie
- Galician: Hessen
- Georgian: ჰესენი
- German: DE-HE
- German: Groß-Hessen
- German: HE
- German: Hessen
- German: Land Hessen
- Greek: Έσεν
- Greek: Έσση
- Guarani: Hesse
- Gujarati: હેસે
- Hakka Chinese: Hesse
- Hausa: Hesse
- Hebrew: הסה
- Hebrew: הסן
- Hindi: हेसे
- Hungarian: Hessen
- Icelandic: Hessen
- Ido: Hesia
- Iloko: Hesse
- Indonesian: Hesse
- Indonesian: Hessen
- Interlingua: Hessen
- Interlingue: Hesse
- Irish: Hessen
- Italian: Assia
- Japanese: ヘッセン州
- Javanese: Hessen
- Kannada: ಹೆಸ್ಸೆ
- Kazakh: Гессен
- Kirghiz: Гессен
- Kongo: Hessen
- Korean: 헤센 주
- Korean: 헤센주
- Kurdish: Hessen
- Kölsch: Hessen
- Ladin: DE-HE
- Ladin: Hessen
- Ladin: Land Hessen
- Ladino: Hesse
- Lao: Hesse
- Latin: Hassia
- Latvian: Hesene
- Ligurian: Assia
- Limburgan: Hesse
- Lingala: Héssɛnɛ́
- Literary Chinese: 黑森
- Lithuanian: Hesenas
- Lombard: Assia
- Low German: Hessen
- Lower Sorbian: Hesseńska
- Luxembourgish: Hessen
- Macedonian: Хесен
- Mainfränkisch: Hessä
- Malay: Hesse
- Manx: Hessen
- Marathi: हेसेन
- Mazanderani: هسن
- Min Dong Chinese: Hessen
- Min Nan Chinese: Hessen
- Mongolian: Хессен
- Narom: Hesse
- Neapolitan: Assia
- Nepali: हेसे
- Nepali: हेस्न्
- Northern Frisian: Hessen
- Northern Sami: Hessen
- Norwegian: Hessen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Hessen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Hessen
- Novial: Hesia
- Occitan (post 1500): Èssa
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hetwaraland
- Ossetian: Гессен
- Pampanga: Hesse
- Panjabi: ਹੈੱਸਨ
- Papiamento: Hessen
- Pennsylvania German: Hesse
- Persian: هسن
- Persian: هسه
- Pfaelzisch: Hesse
- Pfaelzisch: Hessen
- Piemontese: Assia
- Polish: Hesja
- Portuguese: Hesse
- Portuguese: Hessen
- Pushto: هسن
- Quechua: Hessen
- Romanian: Hessa
- Romansh: Hessen
- Russian: Гессен
- Sardinian: Àssia
- Saterfriesisch: Hessen
- Scots: Hesse
- Scottish Gaelic: Hessen
- Serbian: Хесен
- Serbo-Croatian: Hessen
- Sicilian: Hessen
- Sindhi: ھيسن
- Sinhala: හෙසේ
- Slovak: Hesensko
- Slovenian: Hesija
- Slovenian: Hessen
- South Azerbaijani: هسن
- Spanish: Hesse
- Spanish: Hessen
- Swahili: Hesse
- Swedish: Hessen
- Swiss German: Hesse
- Tagalog: Hesse
- Tajik: Ҳессен
- Talysh: Hessen
- Tamil: கெஸ்சன்
- Tamil: ஹெஸென்
- Tatar: Hessen
- Tatar: Һессен
- Telugu: హెస్
- Thai: รัฐเฮ็สเซิน
- Tosk Albanian: Hessen
- Turkish: Hessen
- Turkmen: Hessen
- Ukrainian: Гессен
- Upper Sorbian: Hessenska
- Urdu: ہیسے
- Uzbek: Hessen
- Venetian: Asia
- Venetian: Assia
- Vietnamese: Hessen
- Vlaams: Essen
- Vlaams: Hessen
- Volapük: Hesän
- Waray (Philippines): Hessen
- Welsh: Hessen
- Western Armenian: Հեսսեն
- Western Frisian: Hessen
- Western Panjabi: ہیسے
- Wu Chinese: 黑森州
- Yiddish: העסע
- Yoruba: Hesse
- Yue Chinese: 黑森
- Zeeuws: Hessen
- DE7
- Àsia
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