page_title: Hesse
section_title: Districts
hierarchical_section_title: Hesse / Administration / Districts
caption_attribution_description: English: Offenbach am Main Drone view
context_page_description: Hesse or Hessia, officially the State of Hesse, is a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest metropolitan area is Frankfurt am Main.
  With an area of 21,000 square kilometers and a population of just over six million it ranks seventh and fifth respectively among the sixteen German states.
  As a cultural region, Hesse also includes the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
context_section_description: The state is divided into three administrative provinces (Regierungsbezirke): Kassel in the north and east, Gießen in the centre, and Darmstadt in the south, the latter being the most populous region with the Frankfurt Rhine-Main agglomeration in its central area. The administrative regions have no legislature of their own, but are executive agencies of the state government.
  Hesse is divided into 21 districts (Kreise) and five independent cities, each with their own local governments. They are, shown with abbreviations as used on vehicle number plates:
  Bergstraße (Heppenheim) (HP)
  Darmstadt-Dieburg (Darmstadt) (DA, DI)
  Groß-Gerau (Groß-Gerau) (GG)
  Hochtaunuskreis (Bad Homburg) (HG, USI)
  Main-Kinzig-Kreis (Gelnhausen) (MKK, GN, HU, SLÜ)
  Main-Taunus-Kreis (Hofheim am Taunus) (MTK)
  Odenwaldkreis (Erbach) (ERB)
  Offenbach (Dietzenbach) (OF)
  Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis (Bad Schwalbach) (RÜD, SWA)
  Wetteraukreis (Friedberg) (FB, BÜD)
  Gießen (Gießen) (GI)
  Lahn-Dill-Kreis (Wetzlar) (LDK)
  Limburg-Weilburg (Limburg) (LM, WEL)
  Marburg-Biedenkopf (Marburg) (MR, BID)
  Vogelsbergkreis (Lauterbach) (VB)
  Fulda (Fulda) (FD)
  Hersfeld-Rotenburg (Bad Hersfeld) (HEF, ROF)
  Kassel (Kassel) (KS, HOG, WOH)
  Schwalm-Eder-Kreis (Homberg (Efze)) (HR, ZIG, FZ)
  Werra-Meißner-Kreis (Eschwege) (ESW, WIZ)
  Waldeck-Frankenberg (Korbach) (KB, FKB, WA)
  Independent cities:
  Darmstadt (DA)
  Frankfurt am Main (F)
  Kassel (KS)
  Offenbach am Main (OF)
  Wiesbaden (WI)
caption: Offenbach am Main
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