A Future-Oriented Center of Business and Industry : Hesse in Germany

With a population of six million and an area of about 21,100 square kilometers, Hesse is Germany’s fifth largest state. Today it is one of the country’s major centers of business and industry and ranks among the most dynamic regions in Europe.

Better known than the state capital Wiesbaden is the city of Frankfurt am Main: as an international financial center with more than 400 banks, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Monetary Institute; as the location of prominent branches of industry and technology; as the venue for numerous international trade fairs; and as a hub of air transport with the Rhine-Main Airport, which ranks first in Europe in volume of cargo and second in number of passengers