Darmstadt – DE711

EU regions: Germany > Hesse > Darmstadt Government Region > Darmstadt

Indicator	Period	Value
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2021	245

More on wikipedia wikidata Q2973 on OpenStreetMap Darmstadt slovensky: DE711

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	162 243
population density	2022	1319.2
old-age dependency ratio	2023	25.3

From Wikipedia:

Darmstadt (, also UK: , US: , German: [ˈdaʁmʃtat] (listen)) is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). 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" (German: Wissenschaftsstadt) as it is a major centre of scientific institutions, universities, and high-technology companies. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are located in Darmstadt, as well as GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium (1981), meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), and copernicium (1996) were discovered. The existence of the following elements were also confirmed at GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research: nihonium (2012), flerovium (2009), moscovium (2012), livermorium (2010), and tennessine (2012). The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) 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.

Darmstadt was formerly the capital of a sovereign country, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and its successor, the People's State of Hesse, a federal state of Germany. As the capital of an increasingly prosperous duchy, the city gained some international prominence and remains one of the wealthiest cities in Europe. In the 20th century, industry (especially chemicals), as well as large science and electronics (later information technology) sectors became increasingly important, and are still a major part of the city's economy.

Other: Darmstadt Government Region, Wiesbaden, Landkreis Bergstraße, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Groß-Gerau, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Odenwald, Offenbach, Wetteraukreis, Offenbach am Main, Frankfurt, Hochtaunuskreis, Darmstadt, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

Neighbours: Offenbach, Darmstadt-Dieburg

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Darmstadt – DE711, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PDE711, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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