Karlsruhe is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the right bank of the Rhine near the French border. It serves as Germany's legal center, hosting the Federal Constitutional Court, the Federal Court of Justice, and the Public Prosecutor General. Located between the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen conurbation and Strasbourg, it is the third-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Mannheim.