Rhineland-Palatinate

Not to be confused with North Rhine-Westphalia.
This article is about the German state. For the historical territory of the Elector of the Palatinate, see Electoral Palatinate. For the 19th-century territory, see Circle of the Rhine. For the Rhenish Palatinate, see Palatinate (region).
"Rheinland-Pfalz" redirects here. For the ships, see German frigate Rheinland-Pfalz.

Rhineland-Palatinate
Rheinland-Pfalz (German)
Rhoilond-Palz (Palatine German)
State
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Coordinates: 49°54′47″N 7°27′0″E / 49.91306°N 7.45000°E / 49.91306; 7.45000
CountryGermany
Founded30 August 1946
CapitalMainz
Government
 • BodyLandtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
 • Minister-PresidentAlexander Schweitzer (SPD)
 • Governing partiesSPD / Greens / FDP
 • Bundesrat votes4 (of 69)
 • Bundestag seats36 (of 736)
Area
 • Total
19,846 km2 (7,663 sq mi)
Population
 (31 December 2019)
 • Total
4,093,903
 • Density210/km2 (530/sq mi)
GDP
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 • Total€171.699 billion (2022)
 • Per capita€41,366 (2022)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeDE-RP
NUTS RegionDEB
HDI (2021)0.929[2]
very high · 11th of 16
Websitewww.rlp.de Edit this at Wikidata

Rhineland-Palatinate (/ˌraɪnlænd pəˈlætɪnɪt, -lənd-/ RYNE-land pə-LAT-in-it, -⁠lənd-, US also /-ɪneɪt/ -⁠in-ayt; German: Rheinland-Pfalz [ˈʁaɪnlant ˈpfalts] ⓘ; Luxembourgish: Rheinland-Pfalz [ˈʀɑɪnlɑm 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.[3] 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.[4]

Rhineland-Palatinate is currently the only federal state in Germany where nuclear weapons are stored extraterritorially under the responsibility and supervision of US forces.

  1. ^ "Bruttoinlandsprodukt, Bruttowertschöpfung | Statistikportal.de". Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder | Gemeinsames Statistikportal (in German). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  3. ^ "State Facts of Rhineland-Palatinate". State of Rhineland-Palatinate. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  4. ^ Rheinland-Pfalz, Staatskanzlei. "english". rlp.de. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2017.