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Also known as Hassia, Hassen, Hessen, Greater-Hessen, State of Hessen, Land Hessen

Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt am Main, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of over six million, it ranks seventh and fifth, respectively, among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area (after Rhine-Ruhr), is mainly located in Hesse.

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Hesse is a state in central Germany with its capital in Wiesbaden and its largest city in Frankfurt am Main, which serves as Germany's principal financial center. With over six million residents and an area of about 21,115 square kilometers, it is one of Germany's most populous and economically significant states, home to the country's second-largest metropolitan region.

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Settlement.subdivision_name: Germany
Settlement.seat_type: Capital
Settlement.seat: Wiesbaden
Settlement.seat1_type: Largest city

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Startseite | HESSEN Landesregierung

Hier gibt es Neues und Wissenswertes aus Hessen. Informieren Sie sich über Projekte, Veranstaltungen und aktuelle Meldungen der Landesregierung.

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Instance of: country
Named after: Chatti
Official name: Hessen
Demonym: assiani
Country: German Reich
Located in: American occupation zone in Germany
Contains: Kassel Government Region
Capital: Wiesbaden
Official language: German
Population: 6207278
Area: 21100.0
Elevation: 264
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Head of government: Boris Rhein
Legislature: Landtag of Hesse
Shares border with: Bavaria
Highest point: Wasserkuppe
Official website: verwaltungsportal.hessen.de
Image: Stadtschloss der Herzöge von Nassau, Wiesbaden.jpg
Flag: flag of Hesse
Coat of arms: coat of arms of Hesse

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contact page URL: hessen.de/kontakt
privacy policy URL: hessen.de/datenschutz
topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Hesse
Commons category: Hesse
topic's main category: Category:Hesse
category for people born here: Category:Births in Hesse
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Hesse
category for people buried here: Category:Burials in Hesse
Commons gallery: Hessen
category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Hesse
category of associated people: Category:People from Hesse
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
twinned administrative body: Wisconsin
inception: 1946-12-01
history of topic: history of Hesse
native label: Hessen
P8168: Jamaica at the 1964 Summer Olympics
P6482: Hesse
P11012: Category:Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
impressum URL: hessen.de/impressum
Mastodon instance URL: social.hessen.de
social media followers: 526
budget: 47916466300
replaces: Greater Hesse
number of viewers/listeners: 428603

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Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt am Main, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of over six million, it ranks seventh and fifth, respectively, among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area (after Rhine-Ruhr), is mainly located in Hesse.

As a cultural region, Hesse also includes the area known as Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen) in the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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