The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, short F.A.Z., also known as the FAZ, is the national German newspaper founded in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main. It is the first choice of the political, business and cultural elite. The Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (F.A.S.).

According to IVW audited circulation figures for F.A.Z. and F.A.S. in the 1st quarter of 2019 there were 468,383 sold copies, where more than 20% were e-paper copies. The F.A.Z. runs its own correspondent network. Its publishing policy is not determined by a single publisher, but cooperatively by four publishers. It is the German newspaper with the widest circulation abroad delivered to 148 countries every day.