With about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, with its main centres of Dortmund and Essen. The country's other major cities are Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Bremen, Dresden, Hannover, and Nuremberg. Elevation ranges from the mountains of the Alps in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the northwest and the Baltic Sea  in the northeast. The forested uplands of central Germany and the lowlands of northern Germany are traversed by such major rivers as the Rhine, Danube and Elbe. Germany's alpine glaciers are experiencing deglaciation. When thinking of Germany, beer, lederhosen and Alpine hats quickly come to mind, but these stereotypes mostly relate to Bavarian culture and do not represent Germany as a whole. Germany is a vast and diverse country with 16 culturally unique states that have been politically united since 1871. Even within states there is often considerable cultural diversity.

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Hesse is a central German state known for forests and Wiesbaden, a Roman spa town and now the state's capital city. Amid the skyscrapers of Frankfurt am Main, the state's largest city and Germany's financial center, lie the Städel art museum and the Goethe House— the author's childhood home. Across the Rhine River, in the wider cultural region of Rhine-Hesse, is the city of Mainz with its 1,000-year-old cathedral. The contours of the Land of Hesse, as we know them today, were drawn only in 1946. In ancient times, the south of Hesse was marked by the Limes of Upper Germania and Rhetia, an archaeological monument of great importance. This legacy is still visible at some sites, such as the reconstruction of the Saalburg Fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hessen offers many opportunities for active holidays: hiking, cycling, swimming and water sports on natural or artificial lakes in unspoiled landscapes such as the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park.

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Frankfurt am Main

Neu-Anspach

Hofheim am Taunus

Wiesbaden

Messel

Rüdesheim am Rhein

Viernheim

Lorsch

Kronberg im Taunus

Hanau

Edertal

Kassel

Marburg

Giessen

Kelkheim (Taunus)

Seeheim-Jugenheim

Griesheim

Lorch

Wolfhagen

Gelnhausen

Nidda

Grünberg

Bad Homburg Vor Der Höhe

Weilmünster

Friedberg (Hessen)

Büdingen

Alsfeld

Dillenburg

Bad Vilbel

Offenbach am Main

Rüsselsheim am Main

Darmstadt

Dietzenbach

Bad Sooden-Allendorf

Schlüchtern

Mühltal

Geisenheim

Bensheim

Fulda

Eschwege

Karben

Butzbach

Fritzlar

Bad Nauheim

Frankenberg (Eder)

Hattersheim am Main

Rabenau

Bad Arolsen

Willingen (Upland)

Linsengericht

Linden

Langen (Hessen)

Petersberg

Künzell

Heusenstamm

Wetzlar

Gudensberg

Idstein

Altenstadt

Dreieich

Gemeindefreies Gebiet Gutsbezirk Spessart

Schotten

Hünfeld

Hofbieber

Bad Orb

Brombachtal

Weilrod

Groß-Zimmern

Braunfels

Waldsolms

Riedstadt

Reiskirchen

Sinn

Hungen

Buseck

Gründau

Vöhl

Neu-Isenburg

Niedernhausen

Babenhausen

Mühlheim am Main

Nauheim

Ginsheim-Gustavsburg

Bad Camberg

Bad Soden am Taunus

Oberursel (Taunus)

Rotenburg an der Fulda

Hohenroda

Grebenhain

Villmar

Mörfelden-Walldorf

Hirschhorn (Neckar)

Heringen (Werra)

Waldkappel

Meinhard

Dipperz

Bürstadt

Limburg an der Lahn

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