Editing Franconia (section)

=== Administrative divisions ===
[[File:Franken 2.svg|thumb|upright|The Bavarian provinces of Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia]]
[[File:Baden Wuerttemberg Region Heilbronn-Franken.svg|thumb|left|The region of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg]]
The region of Franconia is divided among the states of Hesse, Thuringia, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The largest part of Franconia, both by population and area, belongs to the Free State of Bavaria and is divided into the three administrative regions (''Regierungsbezirke'') of [[Middle Franconia]] (capital: [[Ansbach]]), [[Upper Franconia]] (capital: [[Bayreuth]]) and [[Lower Franconia]] (capital: [[Würzburg]]). The name of these regions, as in the case of [[Upper Bavaria|Upper]] and [[Lower Bavaria]], refers to their situation with respect to the river [[Main (river)|Main]]. Thus Upper Franconia lies on the upper reaches of the river, Lower Franconia on its lower reaches and Middle Franconia lies in between, although the Main itself does not flow through Middle Franconia. Where the boundaries of these three provinces meet (the '[[tripoint]]') is the ''[[Dreifrankenstein]]'' ("Three Franconias Rock").<ref>
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Small parts of Franconia also belong to the Bavarian regions of [[Upper Palatinate]] and [[Upper Bavaria]].

The Franconian territories of [[Baden-Württemberg]] are the regions of [[Tauber Franconia]] and [[Hohenlohe]] (which belong to the [[Heilbronn-Franconia Region]] with its office in Heilbronn and form part of the [[Stuttgart Region]]) and the area around the Badenian [[Buchen (Odenwald)|Buchen]] in the [[Rhine-Neckar|Rhein-Neckar Region]].

The Franconian parts of Thuringia ([[Henneberg Franconia]]) lie within the Southwest Thuringia Planning Region.

The Franconian regions in Hesse form the smaller parts of the districts of [[Fulda (district)|Fulda]] ([[Kassel (region)|Kassel region]]) and the [[Odenwaldkreis]] ([[Darmstadt (region)|Darmstadt region]]), or lie on the borders with Bavaria or Thuringia.