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| Capital: | Wiesbaden |
| Area: | 21,100 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 6.077.826 (2001) |
| pop. density: | 288 people/km² |
| Homepage: | http://www.hessen.de/ |
| ISO 3166-2: | DE-HE |
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| Minister-President: | Roland Koch ( CDU) |
| Ruling party: | CDU |
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With an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants, Hesse (German Hessen) is one of Germany's sixteen federal states ( Bundesländer). The capital is Wiesbaden.
Situated in western-central Germany, Hesse borders on (from the north-west and clockwise) the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-PalatinateFlag Statistics Capital: Mainz Area:19,846 km² Inhabitants:3,880,000 2000 pop. density:196 people/km² Homepage:http://www. de/ ISO 3166-2:DE-RP Politics Minister-President: Kurt Beck ( SPD) Ruling party: SPD/ FDP coalition Map Rhineland-Palatinate (German. Its principal cities include Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, DarmstadtDarmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany. Its population is estimated (2003) at 137,900. The city is located to the south of the conjoined metropolitan areas of Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. History Darmstadt was first mentione, KasselKassel [ˈkasl̩] (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city on the Fulda River in the north of the state of Hesse in western-central Germany. Kassel is the capital of the Kassel administrative region Regierungsbezirk and of the district of the, GießenGiessen Giessen ) is a city in the federal state ( Bundesland) of Hesse in Germany, capital of the Giessen district. As of 2003 there are approximately 72,909 inhabitants. The history of the city goes back to 775, when the first to-be suburbs "Wieseck" an, Offenbach and Fulda.
The main rivers in the northern part of Hesse are Fulda and Lahn. It is a hilly countryside, the main mountain chains being the Rhön, the Westerwald, the Taunus and the Spessart.
Most inhabitants live in the southernmost part of Hesse between the rivers Main and Rhine. The latter one borders Hesse on the southwest without running through the state. The mountain chain between Main and Rhine is called the Odenwald.
See also List of places in Hesse.
Hesse is divided into 21 districts:
These districts are grouped in three administrative regions ( Regierungsbezirke): Kassel, Gießen and Darmstadt.
There are in addition five independent towns, which belong to no district:
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