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Frankfurt is a City located at 50° 6' 39.32" N, 8° 40' 55.66" E. It is located in the Region Hesse.

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Frankfurt, in full Frankfurt am Main, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a population of 687,775 (2012) within its administrative boundaries.

The actual urban area has a population of 2,500,000. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region which has a population of 5,600,000 and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region. Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013, the geographic centre of the EU is about 40 km (25 mi) east of Frankfurt.