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Five-dimensional superconformal field theories (5d SCFTs) play an interesting role in the general understanding of quantum field theory. They often provide strongly-coupled UV fixed points with remarkable features for perturbatively nonrenormalizable gauge theories, which makes them interesting in their own right. Moreover, upon compactification they provide new insights into many interesting lower-dimensional theories. In the talk I will discuss recent progress in the holographic and field theory description of 5d SCFTs engineered by (p,q) 5-brane junctions in Type IIB string theory.