Frankfurt city region

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Metropolitan region Frankfurt / Rhine-Main and metropolitan area / city region Frankfurt

The Frankfurt metropolitan area is the agglomeration around the core city of Frankfurt am Main . It is organized by the FrankfurtRheinMain regional association. According to the harmonized terms of the Statistical Office of the European Union , the urban region DE005C Frankfurt am Main is one of 323 “ Functional Urban Areas ” in the European Union as well as cities in Norway , Switzerland and Turkey , for which since 2003/2004 within the framework of Urban Audit static data and quality of life indicators are collected and published.

The functionally delimited urban area of ​​the urban region comprises the following administrative units:

000000002729562.00000000002,729,562 inhabitants live in the region thus delimited with a total of 4305 square kilometers (as of December 31, 2019)

The urban region is part of the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region , but is broader than the actual urban agglomeration , as defined by the law on the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region of the Hessian state parliament of March 11, 2011. Accordingly, the regional association FrankfurtRheinMain comprises the following independent cities, districts and municipalities:

This area has 2,359,773 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017) on an area of ​​2,458.5 square kilometers.

The area delimited by the regional association includes, with Hintertaunus and Wetterau, some relatively sparsely populated areas and thus goes beyond the traditional definition of an agglomeration / urban region. The structurally connected area, which corresponds to the current definitions, therefore covers an area of ​​around 1,000 to 1,500 square kilometers with around 1.3 to 1.9 million inhabitants, depending on the underlying definition.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map of the city region DE005C Frankfurt am Main
  2. ↑ City maps for the LUZ of the Urban Audit 2007. Accessed on January 27, 2016 .
  3. Eurostat - Urban Audit. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .
  4. What is a city? - Spatial units. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
  5. ^ The spatial levels of the Urban Audit for Frankfurt am Main and the Rhine-Main region. (pdf) In: Frankfurter Statistical Reports 1/2003. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  6. Eurostat - Urban Audit Database. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .
  7. Law on the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region of the Hessian State Parliament of March 11, 2011, (GVBl. II 330-48)
  8. The FrankfurtRheinMain region in facts and figures