page_title: Darmstadt
section_title: Boroughs
hierarchical_section_title: Darmstadt / Boroughs
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick auf Rheinstraße in Darmstadt English: view over the Rheinstreet in Darmstadt
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 has nine official 'Stadtteile' (boroughs). These are:
  
  
   
  Darmstadt-Arheilgen
  Darmstadt-Bessungen
  Darmstadt-Eberstadt
   
  Darmstadt-Kranichstein
  Darmstadt-Mitte ("Central Darmstadt")
  Darmstadt-Nord ("North")
   
  Darmstadt-Ost ("East")
  Darmstadt-West
  Darmstadt-Wixhausen
caption: Rheinstrasse in central Darmstadt
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