Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 federal states of Germany. It has a region of 19,846 square kilometers and as regards of four million residents. Situated in western Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate borders (from the north and clockwise) North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, France, Saarland, Luxembourg and Belgium. Rhineland-Palatinate is Germany's leading producer of wine in terms of grape agriculture as well as wine trade to other countries. Important economical sectors of Rhineland-Palatinate are the chemical business with the BASF principal chemical company in the world, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, the pharmaceutical industry with Boehringer Ingelheim in Ingelheim am Rhein and the mechanical engineering for important car manufacturers.

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) has an unsettled topography characterised by thinly populated mountain ranges and forests cut by deep river valleys. Created after WWII from components of the previous Rhineland and Rhenish Palatinate districts, its turbulent annals proceeds all the way back to the Romans, as glimpsed in Trier. In current centuries it was hotly challenged by the French and a diversity of German states. This land of wine and large natural attractiveness comes to its apex in the verdant Moselle Valley villages for example Cochem, and along the very powerfully touristed Rhine, where wealthy hillside vineyards supply a backdrop for noble .