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City Facts
Welcome to Frankfurt, Germany.
Frankfurt am Main (German
pronunciation: [ˈfʁaŋkfʊɐ̯t am ˈmaɪ̯n] ( listen)) is
the largest city in the German state of Hessen and
the fifth-largest
city in Germany, with a 2014 population of 717,624 within its
administrative boundaries.[4] The urban area called Frankfurt
Rhein-Main has a population of 2,221,910.[2][5] The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt
Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region which
has a population of 5,500,000[1] and is Germany's
second-largest metropolitan region. Since theenlargement of the European Union in 2013, the geographic
centre of the EU is about 40 km (25 mi)
to the east.
Frankfurt
is a centre for commerce, culture, education, tourism and web traffic. Messe Frankfurt is one of the world's largesttrade fairs at 578,000 square metres and ten exhibition halls. Major trade fairs
include the Frankfurt Motor
Show, the world's largest motor show, and the Frankfurt Book Fair,
the world's largest book fair.
Frankfurt
is home to many cultural and educational institutions, including the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University andFrankfurt University of Applied Sciences,
many museums (e.g. Städel, Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt, Goethe House) and two major botanical gardens:
the Palmengarten, which is Germany's
largest, and theBotanical Garden
of Goethe University.
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