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State of Hesse
Land Hessen (German) | |
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| Anthem: Hessenlied "Song of Hesse" | |
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| Coordinates: 50°36′29″N 9°01′42″E / 50.608028°N 9.028472°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| Capital | Wiesbaden |
| Largest city | Frankfurt am Main |
| Government | |
| • Body | Landtag of Hesse |
| • Minister-President | Boris Rhein (CDU) |
| • Governing parties | CDU / SPD |
| • Bundesrat votes | 5 (of 69) |
| • Bundestag seats | 45 (of 630) (as of 2025) |
| Area | |
• Total | 21,115.62 km2 (8,152.79 sq mi) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 6,420,729 |
| • Density | 300/km2 (790/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Hessian |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €368.298 billion (2024) |
| • Per capita | €57,288 (2024) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | DE-HE |
| NUTS Region | DE7 |
| HDI (2022) | 0.954[4] very high · 5th of 16 |
| Website | www.hessen.de |
Hesse[a] or Hessen[b] (German: Hessen [ˈhɛsn̩] ⓘ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of over six million, it ranks seventh and fifth, respectively, among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area (after Rhine-Ruhr), is mainly located in Hesse.
As a cultural region, Hesse also includes the area known as Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen) in the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate.[7]
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- ^ "Gross domestic product, gross value added in the states of the Federal Republic of Germany 1991 to 2024 (Series 1 Volume 1)". Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder (in German). 2025.
- ^ "Subnational HDI". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
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- ^ "Hesse". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Geschichte. Kurz und knapp – Geschichte – Identität – Region – Rheinhessen". Rheinhessen.de (in German). Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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