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Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria (seven regions), Germany (22 regions in five Federal States, 11 Federal States are not subdivided into regions).

The district was formed in 1817 under the name of Untermainkreis (Lower Main District) and renamed in 1837 as Unterfranken und Aschaffenburg (Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg). In 1933 the regional Nazi Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth insisted on renaming the district Mainfranken, but after 1945 the name Unterfranken was resurrected.

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

The major part of the wine region Franconia is situated in lower Franconia.

Area and population

City or District	Population (2006)		Area (km²)		Communities
City of Aschaffenburg	68,664	5.1%	62	0.7%	1	0.3%
City of Schweinfurt	53,970	4.0%	36	0.4%	1	0.3%
City of Würzburg	134,913	10.1%	88	1.0%	1	0.3%
Aschaffenburg	174,543	13.0%	699	8.2%	32	10.4%
Bad Kissingen	107,267	8.0%	1,137	13.3%	26	8.4%
Haßberge	87,063	6.5%	956	11.2%	26	8.4%
Kitzingen	89,378	6.7%	684	8.0%	31	10.1%
Main-Spessart	130,678	9.8%	1,322	15.5%	40	13.0%
Miltenberg	130,692	9.8%	716	8.4%	32	10.4%
Rhön-Grabfeld	85,313	6.4%	1,022	12.0%	37	12.0%
Schweinfurt	115,173	8.6%	842	9.9%	29	9.4%
Würzburg	160,222	12.0%	968	11.3%	52	16.9%
Total	1,337,876	100.0%	8,531	100.0%	308	100.0%

Historical population
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
2004	1,344,629
2005	1,341,481
2006'''	1,337,876

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	Current district(s)
Alzenau	Aschaffenburg
Bad Brückenau	Bad Kissingen
Bad Neustadt/Saale	Rhön-Grabfeld
Ebern	Haßberge
Gemünden	Main-Spessart
Gerolzhofen	Schweinfurt, Kitzingen, Hassberge, Würzburg
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