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Rhineland-Palatinate
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| Coordinates: 49°54′47″N 7°27′0″E / 49.91306°N 7.45000°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| Founded | 30 August 1946 |
| Capital | Mainz |
| Government | |
| • Body | Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| • Minister-President | Alexander Schweitzer (SPD) |
| • Governing parties: (Schweitzer cabinet) | SPD / Greens / FDP |
| • Bundesrat votes | 4 (of 69) |
| • Bundestag seats | 31 (of 630) (as of 2025) |
| Area | |
• Total | 19,857.97 km2 (7,667.21 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2023)[2] | |
• Total | 4,174,311 |
| • Density | 210/km2 (540/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €184.043 billion (2024) |
| • Per capita | €44,046 (2024) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | DE-RP |
| NUTS Region | DEB |
| HDI (2022) | 0.938[4] very high · 9th of 16 |
| Website | www |
Rhineland-Palatinate (/ˌraɪnlænd pəˈlætɪnɪt, -lənd-/ RYNE-land pə-LAT-in-it, -lənd-, US also /-ɪneɪt/ -in-ayt; German: Rheinland-Pfalz [ˌʁaɪnlant ˈpfalts] ⓘ; Luxembourgish: Rheinland-Pfalz [ˌʀɑɪ̯nlɑm ˈpfɑlts]; Palatine German: Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers 19,846 km2 (7,663 sq mi) and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms, and Neuwied.[5] It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse (Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the latter was returned to German control in 1957. Rhineland-Palatinate's natural and cultural heritage includes the extensive Palatinate winegrowing region, picturesque landscapes, and many castles and palaces.[6]
Rhineland-Palatinate is currently the only federal state in Germany where nuclear weapons are stored extraterritorially under the responsibility and supervision of US forces.
Several German-American ethnicities originated from this state, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch, Maryland Palatines, Ohio Rhinelanders, and Missouri Rhinelanders.
- ^ "Fläche und Bevölkerung". Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ^ "Bevölkerung am 31.12.2023 nach Nationalität und Bundesländern". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "State Facts of Rhineland-Palatinate". State of Rhineland-Palatinate. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ Rheinland-Pfalz, Staatskanzlei. "english". rlp.de. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
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