Heilbronn-Franconia

Heilbronn-Franken is a region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Stuttgart subdivision (Regierungsbezirk).

It covers an area of 4765 km2 in the northeast of Baden-Wuerttemberg, with a population of roughly 0.9 million.

[1] Heilbronn-Franken has experienced an outstanding development with regard to the dynamic of its innovation process.

Franconia, hence the second half of the name), as the population there mostly speaks Franconian rather than Swabian dialects of German.

Apart from Heilbronn, smaller cities in the region are Bad Mergentheim, Crailsheim, Künzelsau, Neckarsulm, Öhringen, Schwäbisch Hall, Tauberbischofsheim and Wertheim.