Lower Palatinate
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Rhineland-Palatinate Rheinland-Pfalz |
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| State of Germany | |||
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| Coordinates: 49°54′47″N 7°27′0″E / 49.91306°N 7.45000°E | |||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Capital | Mainz | ||
| Government | |||
| • Minister-President | Malu Dreyer (SPD) | ||
| • Governing parties | SPD / Free Democratic Party (Germany) / Greens | ||
| • Bundesrat votes | 4 (of 69) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 19,854.21 km2 (7,665.75 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2015-12-31) | |||
| • Total | 4,052,803 | ||
| • Density | 200/km2 (530/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | DE-RP | ||
| GDP/ Nominal | €124 billion (2013) | ||
| GDP per capita | €31,100 (2013) | ||
| NUTS Region | DEB | ||
| Website | www.rlp.de | ||
| Significant foreign born populations | |
| Nationality | Population (2014) |
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 Turkey
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60,159 |
 Poland
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36,817 |
 Italy
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28,538 |
 Romania
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15,805 |
 Bulgaria
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10,926 |
 Russia
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9,503 |
Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz, pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯nlant ˈp͡falt͡s]; French: Rhénanie-Palatinat) is one of the 16 states (German: Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 square kilometres (7,663 sq mi) and about four million inhabitants. Its state capital is Mainz. Rhineland-Palatinate is located in western Germany and borders Belgium, Luxembourg and France, and the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Saarland.
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate dates from 30 August 1946. It formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included:
A referendum confirmed the state constitution on 18 May 1947.
As of 2010 44.9% of the population of the state adhered to the Roman Catholic Church, 30.6% to the Evangelical Church in Germany. 22.0% of the population is irreligious or adheres to other religions. Muslims made up 2.5% of the total.
The league of ShUM-cities in the later Rhineland-Palatinate comprised the Jewish communities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms which became the center of Jewish life during Medieval times. The Takkanot Shum (Hebrew: תקנות שו"ם), or Enactments of ShU"M were a set of decrees formulated and agreed upon over a period of decades by their Jewish community leaders.
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