Hesse
Hesse (Hessen in German) is the one of 16 Bundesländer (federal states) of Germany. Its capital is Wiesbaden (Darmstadt and Kassel until 1945). Its largest city is Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany's financial capital.
Hesse borders on (clockwise from the North) the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The latter state is separated from Hesse by the Rhine River.
It has a surface area of 21,100 km², a population of 6,077,000 inhabitants, and is divided into 3 administrative regions (Regierungsbezirke), divided into 21 districts (Kreise) and 5 urban districts (kreisfreie Städte).
Before the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, what is now Hesse belonged to many independent states, such as the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg, the Duchy of Nassau, the Principality of Waldeck, the County of Isenberg, the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda, the Free Imperial City of Wetzlar, or the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt.
Touristic places
 Bad Homburg
Darmstadt
Frankfurt am Main
Friedberg in der Wetterau
Fulda
Hanau
Homberg an der Efze
Kassel
Lauterbach
 Limburg an der Lahn
Marburg
Wetzlar
Wiesbaden
Eberbach Abbey
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