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Mainz is a City located at 49° 59' 34.30" N, 8° 14' 50.11" E. It is located in the Region Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Mainz is the capital of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It has a population of 202,756, just over 200 thousand people.

It was the capital of the Electorate of Mainz at the time of the Holy Roman Empire. In antiquity Mainz was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire; it was founded as a military post by the Romans in the late 1st century BC and became the provincial capital of Germania Superior. The city is located on the river Rhine at its confluence with the Main opposite Wiesbaden, in the western part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main; in the modern age, Frankfurt shares much of its regional importance.