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located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century.
It is 459 kilometres (285 miles) from Paris, 117 km (73 miles) from Frankfurt am Main, 666 kilometers (414 miles) from Berlin, and 159 km (99 miles) from Luxembourg.
Kaiserslautern, also nicknamed "K-Town" is home to about 100,000 people and approx. 40,000 NATO military personnel in the city
and its surrounding districts stationed in many military installations, including Ramstein Air Base.
In the Middle Ages, the town was chosen by Emperor Friedrich I (Barbarossa) as a seat of government.