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Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of 16 states (in German:Bundesländer) of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 km² and 3.88 million people living in it. The capital is Mainz.

State Rhineland-Palatine (in German: Rheinland-Pfalz)
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bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		capital: Mainz
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		area: 19.847,39 km²
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		inhabitants: 4.059.000 (31. Dezember 2003)
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		population density: 204,5 Einwohner/km²
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		debts: 6.262 € per inhabitant (2002)
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		total debts: 25,4 Mrd. € (2002)
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bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		official website: www.rlp.de
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bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		Ruling party:SPD
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 		prime minister: Kurt Beck (SPD)
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Geography

Rhineland-Palatinate borders on (from the north and clockwise) North Rhine-Westphalia (other German state), Hesse (other German state), Baden-Württemberg (other German state), France, Saarland (other German state), Luxembourg, and Belgium.

The main axis of the state is the Rhine river, that forms the border with Baden-Württemberg and Hesse in the southeast before running across the northern part of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Rhine Valley is bounded by mountains with some of the historically most significant places of Germany.

In the northwest there are the southern parts of the Eifel mountains. Further south there is the Hunsrück mountain, which is continued by the Taunus mountains on the opposite side of the Rhine. The hilly lands in the south of the state are called the Palatine Forest (Pfälzerwald).

These mountains are separated from each other by the tributaries of the Rhine: the Moselle (Mosel), the Lahn and the Nahe.

Government

Rhineland-Palatinate is a parliamentary democracy. Every five years, all Germans over the age of 18 elect the members of the Rhineland-Palatinate Parliament, in German:Landtag. This regional parliament or legislature then elects the premier and confirms the cabinet members. Rhineland-Palatinate is the only German Bundesland to have a cabinet minister for winegrowing.

See here for a Landtag_Rheinland-Pfalz(in the German Wikipedia).

Castles

This is only a choice of the castles in Rhineland-Palatine
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- 		Burg Arras Alf
- 		Alte Burg Boppard
- 		Reichsburg Cochem Cochem
- 		Dahn Dahn
- 		Festung Ehrenbreitstein Koblenz Stadtteil Ehrenbreitstein
- 		Ehrenburg Brodenbach
- 		Burg Eltz Münstermaifeld
- 		Burg Falkenstein Falkenstein
- 		Frauenburg Frauenberg
- 		Hambacher Schloss Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Stadtteil Hambach
- 		Burg Hohenfels Imsbach
- 		Burg und Schloss Idar-Oberstein Idar-Oberstein
- 		Burg Lahneck Lahnstein
- 		Burg Altleiningen Altleiningen
- 		Marksburg Braubach
- 		Burg Nassau Nassau
- 		Nürburg Nürburg
- 		Burg Olbrück Niederdürenbach
- 		Burg Pfalzgrafenstein mitten im Rhein bei Kaub
- 		Burg Reichenstein Trechtingshausen
- 		Burg Rheinfels Sankt Goar
- 		Rheinstein Trechtingshausen
- 		Schloss und Burg Sayn Bendorf
- 		Schloss Bürresheim Sankt Johann (bei Mayen), Ortsteil Bürresheim
- 		Schloss Neuwied Neuwied
- 		Schloss Stolzenfels Koblenz, Stadtteil Stolzenfels
- 		Schmidtburg Schneppenbach
- 		Schönburg Oberwesel
- 		Burg Sooneck Niederheimbach
- 		Burg Stahleck Bacharach
- 		Trifels Annweiler am Trifels
- 		Schloss Montabaur Montabaur
- 		Thurant Alken

Universities

There are 7 universities and 13 "Fachhochschulen".

 

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