Fact Sheet

1. Geographic Location

Franconia is situated in the geographical center of Europe and Germany, North of the Danube River and with the Main River flowing right through it.

2. Traffic connection

• Motorways

A 3    Frankfurt - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Passau
A 6    Mannheim - Heilbronn - Nuremberg - Amberg
A 7    Hamburg - Hannover - Würzburg - Ulm
A 9    Berlin - Nuremberg - München
A 70  Schweinfurt - Bamberg - Bayreuth
A 71  Schweinfurt - Erfurt
A 73  Nuremberg – Bamberg - Suhl
A 81  Würzburg - Heilbronn - Stuttgart

• Airport
  Albrecht Dürer Airport Nuremberg

• Railway Connections
  ICE-, IC-, EC- and IR-Connections

3. Area size  circa 32,000 sq km

4. Population   circa 4.5 million

5. Holiday Areas

• Altmühltal Nature Park
• Fichtelgebirge Mountain Range
• Franconian Switzerland
• Franconia´s Lake Region
• Franconian Wine Country
• Frankenalb Mountains
• Nature Park Franconian Forest
• Hassberge Mountains
• Lovely Tauber River Valley
• Obermain•Jura
• Coburg.Rennsteig
• Nuremberg and Vicinity
• Rhön
• Romantic Franconia
• Spessart Forest – Main River Region
• Steigerwald Forest