Difference between revisions of "Rhineland-Palatinate"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
BRichtigen (talk | contribs) |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 12:31, November 15, 2008
Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of the sixteen federal states (German: Bundesland) of Germany. To the west, it shares borders with France, the Bundesland Saarland, Luxembourg and Belgium, to the north with the Bundeslaender North Rhine - Westfalia and to the east with Hesse.
The state was formed in 1947 out of parts from the former states of Prussia, Bavaria, Hesse-Darmstadt and even Oldenburg - a sign of the eventful history of this area.
Though the cities in Rhineland-Palatinate are not very big - the capital Mainz has 180,000 inhabitants, Ludwigshafen 160,000, Koblenz,Trier and Kaiserslautern each 100,000, Worms less than 90,000 - they often have an impressive history, rooted in the days of the Roman Empire.