Unterfranken

Statistics
State:	Bavaria
Capital:	Würzburg
Area:	8,531.59 km²
Inhabitants:	1,344,300 (2002)
pop. density:	157,57 inh./km²
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Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria (seven regions), Germany (32 regions).

It's the north-west part of Franconia and consists of three district-free cities ( "Kreisfreie Städte" ) and nine country districts ( "Landkreise" ).

Contents

1 Area and population

2 Historical country districts

3 Well known people

4 Education and startUps

5 Links

Area and population

**Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) Population and Area**
City or District	Population (2002)		Area (km²)		Communities
City of Aschaffenburg	68,682	5.1%	63	0.7%	1	0.3%
City of Schweinfurt	54,670	4.1%	36	0.4%	1	0.3%
City of Würzburg	131,582	9.8%	88	1.0%	1	0.3%
Aschaffenburg	174,863	13.0%	699	8.2%	32	10.4%
Bad Kissingen	109,382	8.1%	1,137	13.3%	26	8.4%
Haßberge	88,301	6.6%	956	11.2%	26	8.4%
Kitzingen	89,335	6.6%	684	8.0%	31	10.1%
Main-Spessart	132,393	9.8%	1,322	15.5%	40	13.0%
Miltenberg	131,568	9.8%	716	8.4%	32	10.4%
Rhön-Grabfeld	86,811	6.5%	1,022	12.0%	37	12.0%
Schweinfurt	116,868	8.7%	841	9.9%	29	9.4%
Würzburg	159,845	11.9%	968	11.3%	52	16.9%
Lower Franconia	1,344,300	100.0%	8,532	100.0%	308	100.0%

**Historical Population of Lower Franconia**
1939	844,732
1950	1,038,930
1961	1,089,983
1970	1,181,309
1987	1,202,711
2002	1,344,300

Historical country districts

Until the municipal reform ( "Kreisreform" ) in June 1972 Lower Franconia had 22 country districts, 16 of them were attached to the other six existing country districts Aschaffenburg, Bad Kissingen, Kitzingen, Miltenberg, Schweinfurt, Würzburg or united to one of the three new country districts Haßberge, Main-Spessart, Rhön-Grabfeld.

Old country district   Now part of the country district(s)
Alzenau .............. Aschaffenburg
Bad Brückenau ........ Bad Kissingen
Bad Neustadt/Saale.... Rhön-Grabfeld
Ebern ................ Haßberge
Gemünden ............. Main-Spessart
Gerolzhofen .......... Schweinfurt, Kitzingen
Hammelburg ........... Bad Kissingen
Haßfurt .............. Haßberge
Hofheim/Unterfranken . Haßberge
Karlstadt ............ Main-Spessart
Königshofen .......... Rhön-Grabfeld
Lohr ................. Main-Spessart
Marktheidenfeld ...... Main-Spessart, Miltenberg, Würzburg
Mellrichstadt ........ Rhön-Grabfeld
Obernburg ............ Miltenberg
Ochsenfurt ........... Würzburg

Well known people

Education and startUps

University/Fachhochschulen:

Julius Maximilians Universität
Fachhochschule Aschaffenburg
Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt

startUp centers:

Zentec, Großwallstadt
RSG Rhön-Saale Gründerzentrum, Bad Kissingen
GRIBS Gründer- und Innovationszentrum, Schweinfurt
Chancencenter Maintal, Schweinfurt
TGZ Technologie- und Gründerzentrum, Würzburg
ZmK Zentrum für moderne Kommunikationstechnologien, Würzburg