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The Palatinate (German: Pfalz; Palatine German: Palz), or the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), is a historical region of Germany.The Palatinate occupies most of the southern quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), covering an area of 2,105 square miles (5,450 km 2) with about 1.4 million inhabitants.
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Rhineland-Palatinate (/ ˌ r aɪ n l æ n d p ə ˈ l æ t ɪ n ɪ t,-l ə n d-/ RYNE-land pə-LAT-in-it, -lənd-, US also /-ɪ n eɪ t /-in-ayt; German: Rheinland-Pfalz [ˈʁaɪnlant ˈpfalts] ⓘ; Luxembourgish: Rheinland-Pfalz [ˈʀɑɪnlɑm ˈpfɑlts]; Palatine German: Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany.
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The name Rheinpfalz is still used in German today for this region. Rhenish Palatinate (German: Rheinpfalz), another name for the Circle of the Rhine (Rheinkreis) or the Bavarian Palatinate (Bayerischen Pfalz) west of the Rhine, from 1835 until 1946; Rhine Palatinate (German: Rheinpfalz), the former name of the Palatinate wine region
Rheinhessen-Pfalz (rarely anglicized as "Rhine-Hesse-Palatinate") was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located in the south of the state. It was created in 1968 out of Regierungsbezirke Rheinhessen and Pfalz , which had themselves been created out of the left-bank territories of Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt ...
For him, the nearest European neighbour is the French region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, five kilometres away.The same situation exists for the region of Mainz in the east of Rhineland Palatinate, which is part of the Rhein Main area [41] and the southern départements of Lorraine. The region seems to be too big to form a common identity for all. [40]
The Upper Palatinate is a landscape with low mountains and numerous ponds and lakes in its lowland regions. By contrast with other regions of Germany it is more rural in character and more sparsely settled. It borders (clockwise from the north) on Upper Franconia, the Czech Republic, Lower Bavaria, Upper Bavaria and Middle Franconia.