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(German: , British English: American English: ) is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne, with an end-2006 population of 661,877.[1] The Frankfurt urban area, which extends beyond the city boundaries, had an estimated population of 1,468,140 in 2000.[2] The city is at the center of the larger Frankfurt Rhine Main Area which has a population of 5 million and is Germany's second largest metropolitan area.