City
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Frankfurt am Main within Hesse
Coordinates: 50°7′N 8°41′E / 50.117°N 8.683°E / 50.117; 8.683Coordinates: 50°7′N 8°41′E / 50.117°N 8.683°E / 50.117; 8.683
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Urban district
Founded	1st century
Subdivisions	16 area districts (Ortsbezirke) 46 city districts (Stadtteile)
Government
• Lord Mayor (2018–24)	Mike Josef (SPD)
• Governing parties	CDU / SPD / Green
Area
• City	248.31 km2 (95.87 sq mi)
Elevation	112 m (367 ft)
Population  (2016-12-31)
• City	736,414
• Density	2,965.70/km2 (7,681.14/sq mi)
• Urban	2,319,029
• Metro	5,604,523
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	60306–60599, 65929–65936
Vehicle registration	F
Website	www.frankfurt.de

Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (German: [ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt ʔam ˈmaɪn] ( listen); Hessian: Frangford am Maa, lit. "Frank ford on theMain"), is one of the biggest cities in Germany. The city of Frankfurt has a population of 700,000. The metropolitan area, called Rhine-Main after its two biggest rivers, has over four million people. Frankfurt is an important centre for traffic and for the financial business. The Frankfurt International Airport is the largest in Germany, and one of the largest in the world. Frankfurt's train station is one of the largest, and its highway crossing is the centre of Germany's street network. Frankfurt is the seat of the European Central Bank, the German Federal Bank (Bundesbank) and of the biggest German banks, and it has an important stock exchange where shares of German companies are traded.

Frankfurt is on the Main river. The city's name means ford of the Franks - a ford is a place in a river where it is so shallow that you can walk through it, and the Franks were a Germanic people which existed in the first millennium. So, this was a place where travellers could cross the river without a boat. The frankish kings built a palace and a church here. Over the centuries, this group of buildings grew to be a big city which was famous for international trade and fairs, like today. Frankfurt was one of the most important cities of the Holy Roman Empire, and its emperors were crowned here. In the 19th century, Frankfurt was the capital of the German Confederation which was founded after the Holy Roman Empire fell apart. During the revolution of 1848, the first freely elected German parliament worked in Frankfurt.