page_title: Darmstadt
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Darmstadt / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Germany / autumn at the Mountain Street Deutsch: Herbst an der Bergstraße bei Heppenheim. Hier ein herbstlicher Talblick aus dem Bereich des Erlebnispfades "Wein und Stein" bei Heppenheim. Über die Webcams am Erlebnispfad kann man dann gut einsehen, wie weit die Blattfärbung fortgeschritten ist.
context_page_description: Darmstadt is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area. Darmstadt had a population of around 157,437 at the end of 2016. The Darmstadt Larger Urban Zone has 430,993 inhabitants.
  Darmstadt holds the official title "City of Science" as it is a major centre of scientific institutions, universities, and high-technology companies. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and the European Space Operations Centre are located in Darmstadt, as well as GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium, meitnerium, hassium, darmstadtium, roentgenium, and copernicium were discovered. The existence of the following elements were also confirmed at GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research: nihonium, flerovium, moscovium, livermorium, and tennessine. The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research is an international accelerator facility under construction. Darmstadt is also the seat of the world's oldest pharmaceutical company, Merck, which is the city's largest employer.
context_section_description: Darmstadt is located in the Upper Rhine Plain (German: Oberrheinische Tiefebene), a major rift, about 350 km (217 mi) long and on average 50 km (31 mi) wde, between the cities of Frankfurt in the north and Basel in the south. Darmstadt's southeastern boroughs are located in the spurs of the Odenwald, a low mountain range in Southern Hesse between the Main and Neckar rivers.
caption: Vineyards south of Darmstadt – view towards the Rhine Plain
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