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Lower Franconia (, ) is one of seven Regierungsbezirk of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle Franconia and Upper Franconia make up the region of Franconia. It consists of nine districts and 308 municipalities (including three cities).
In the following years, due to territorial changes (e.g., loss of German Tyrol, addition of the Palatinate), the number of Kreise was reduced to 8. One of these was the Untermainkreis (Lower Main District). In 1837 king Ludwig I of Bavaria renamed the Kreise after historical territorial names and tribes of the area. This also involved some border changes or territorial swaps. Thus the name Untermainkreis changed to Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, but the city name was dropped in the middle of the 20th century, leaving just Lower Franconia.
From 1933, the regional Nazi Gauleiter, Otto Hellmuth, (who had renamed his party Gau "Mainfranken") insisted on renaming the government district Mainfranken as well. He encountered resistance from Bavarian state authorities but finally succeeded in having the name of the district changed, effective 1 June 1938. After 1945 the name Unterfranken was restored.
The municipal reform (Kreisreform) of June 1972 consolidated the 22 country districts of Lower Franconia into nine.
| Aschaffenburg, Alzenau |
| Bad Kissingen, Bad Brückenau, Hammelburg |
| Ebern, Haßfurt, Hofheim in Unterfranken, part of Gerolzhofen |
| Kitzingen, part of Gerolzhofen |
| Gemünden, Karlstadt, Lohr, part of Marktheidenfeld |
| Miltenberg, Obernburg, part of Marktheidenfeld |
| Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Königshofen, Mellrichstadt |
| Schweinfurt, part of Gerolzhofen |
| Würzburg, Ochsenfurt, part of Gerolzhofen, part of Marktheidenfeld |
Unterfranken is the north-west part of Franconia and consists of three district-free cities (Kreisfreie Städte) and nine country districts (Landkreise).
The major portion of the Franconian wine region is situated in Lower Franconia.
| Aschaffenburg | 67,748 | 5.22% | 62 | 0.7% | 1 | 0.3% |
| Schweinfurt | 51,918 | 4.00% | 36 | 0.4% | 1 | 0.3% |
| City of Würzburg | 124,154 | 9,57% | 88 | 1.0% | 1 | 0.3% |
| Aschaffenburg | 172,521 | 13.30% | 699 | 8.2% | 32 | 10.4% |
| Bad Kissingen | 103,003 | 7.94% | 1,137 | 13.3% | 26 | 8.4% |
| Haßberge | 84,136 | 6.49% | 956 | 11.2% | 26 | 8.4% |
| Kitzingen | 88,025 | 6.79% | 684 | 8.0% | 31 | 10.1% |
| Main-Spessart | 126,458 | 9.75% | 1,322 | 15.5% | 40 | 13.0% |
| Miltenberg | 127,980 | 9.87% | 716 | 8.4% | 32 | 10.4% |
| Rhön-Grabfeld | 80,065 | 6.17% | 1,022 | 12.0% | 37 | 12.0% |
| Schweinfurt | 112,916 | 8.71% | 842 | 9.9% | 29 | 9.4% |
| Würzburg | 158,132 | 12.19% | 968 | 11.3% | 52 | 16.9% |
| 1910 | 710,943 |
| 1939 | 844,732 |
| 1950 | 1,038,930 |
| 1961 | 1,089,983 |
| 1970 | 1,181,309 |
| 1987 | 1,202,711 |
| 2002 | 1,344,300 |
| 2005 | 1,341,481 |
| 2010 | 1,318,695 |
| 2015 | 1,306,048 |
| 2019 | 1,317,619 |
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