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Revision as of 10:46, 11 March 2003
| Flag | |
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| File:Rhineland palatinate flag.png | |
| Statistics | |
| Capital: | Mainz |
| Area: | 19,846 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 3,880,000 (2000) |
| pop. density: | 196 people/km² |
| Homepage: | http://www.rlp.de/ |
| Politics | |
| Minister-President: | Kurt Beck (SPD) |
| Ruling party: | SPD/FDP coalition |
| Map | |
| File:Bundeslaender germany rp.png | |
The Rhineland-Palatinate (German Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of 16 Bundesländer of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 km² and 3.88 million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz.
Geography
Rhineland-Palatinate borders on (from the north and clockwise) North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, France, Saarland, Luxembourg and Belgium.
The main axis of the state is the Rhine river, that forms the border with Baden-Württemberg and Hesse in the southeast before running across the northern part of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Rhine Valley is bounded by mountain chains and forms a fascinating landscape with some of the historically most significant places of Germany.
In the northwest there are the southern parts of the Eifel mountains. Further south there is the Hunsrück mountain chain, which is continued by the Taunus mountains on the opposite side of the Rhine. The hilly lands in the south of the state are called the Palatine Forest (Pfälzerwald).
These mountain chains are separated from each other by the tributaries of the Rhine: the Moselle (Mosel), the Lahn and the Nahe.
Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 25 districts, grouped into the three administrative regions (officially no longer called Regierungsbezirk) Koblenz, Trier and Rheinhessen-Pfalz.
Furthermore there are twelve independent towns, which don't belong to any district:
- Frankenthal
- Kaiserslautern
- Koblenz
- Landau
- Ludwigshafen
- Mainz
- Neustadt (Weinstraße)
- Pirmasens
- Speyer
- Trier
- Worms
- Zweibrücken
History
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 by merging the Rhine Palatinate with the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province and the parts of former Hesse on the western banks of the Rhine.
External link
See the state's own website, http://www.rlp.de/