Germany: States and Major Cities (original) (raw)

Federal States (Bundesländer)

The population of the German states according to census results and latest official estimates.

Name Abbr. Status Capital AreaA (km²) PopulationEstimate (E)1990-12-31 PopulationEstimate (E)2001-12-31 PopulationCensus (C)2011-05-09 PopulationCensus (C)2022-05-15
Baden-Württemberg BW BL Stuttgart 35,748 9,822,027 10,600,906 10,486,660 11,104,040 3574800 →
Bayern [Bavaria] BY BL München 70,541 11,448,823 12,329,714 12,397,614 13,038,724 7054100 →
Berlin BE BL Berlin 891 3,433,695 3,388,434 3,292,365 3,596,999 89100 →
Brandenburg BB BL Potsdam 29,654 2,589,504 2,593,040 2,455,780 2,534,075 2965400 →
Bremen HB BL Bremen 419 681,665 659,651 650,863 693,204 41900 →
Hamburg HH BL Hamburg 755 1,652,363 1,726,363 1,706,696 1,808,846 75500 →
Hessen [Hesse] HE BL Wiesbaden 21,116 5,763,310 6,077,826 5,971,816 6,207,278 2111600 →
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] MV BL Schwerin 23,294 1,906,710 1,759,877 1,609,982 1,570,817 2329400 →
Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony] NI BL Hannover 47,710 7,393,302 7,956,416 7,777,992 7,943,265 4771000 →
Nordrhein-Westfalen [North Rhine-Westphalia] NW BL Düsseldorf 34,112 17,349,651 18,052,092 17,538,251 17,890,489 3411200 →
Rheinland-Pfalz [Rhineland-Palatinate] RP BL Mainz 19,858 3,763,510 4,049,066 3,989,808 4,094,169 1985800 →
Saarland SL BL Saarbrücken 2,572 1,072,963 1,066,470 999,623 1,006,864 257200 →
Sachsen [Saxony] SN BL Dresden 18,450 4,775,873 4,384,192 4,056,799 4,038,131 1845000 →
Sachsen-Anhalt [Saxony-Anhalt] ST BL Magdeburg 20,464 2,873,957 2,580,626 2,287,040 2,146,443 2046400 →
Schleswig-Holstein SH BL Kiel 15,804 2,626,127 2,804,249 2,800,119 2,927,542 1580400 →
Thüringen [Thuringia] TH BL Erfurt 16,202 2,599,747 2,411,387 2,188,589 2,110,396 1620200 →
Germany DEU Fed Rep Berlin 357,592 79,753,227 82,440,309 80,219,695 82,711,282 →

Major Cities

| | Name | Adm. | PopulationCensus (C)2022-05-15 | | | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | --------- | | 1 | Berlin | BE | 3,596,999 | | 2 | Hamburg | HH | 1,808,846 | | 3 | München | BY | 1,478,638 | | 4 | Köln | NW | 1,017,355 | | 5 | Frankfurt am Main | HE | 743,268 | | 6 | Düsseldorf | NW | 611,258 | | 7 | Stuttgart | BW | 610,458 | | 8 | Leipzig | SN | 598,899 | | 9 | Dortmund | NW | 598,246 | | 10 | Bremen | HB | 575,071 | | 11 | Essen | NW | 571,039 | | 12 | Dresden | SN | 557,782 |

Contents: Cities

The population of all cities in Germany with more than 50,000 inhabitants according to census results and latest official estimates.

Cities within the boundaries of 31 December 2022.

Name Status Adm. PopulationEstimate (E)1990-12-31 PopulationEstimate (E)2001-12-31 PopulationCensus (C)2011-05-09 PopulationCensus (C)2022-05-15 Area
Aachen [Aix-la-Chapelle] City NW 241,861 245,778 236,420 261,178 16085 →
Aalen City BW 64,781 66,559 66,318 67,139 14658 →
Ahlen City NW 54,169 55,481 52,280 52,669 12313 →
Arnsberg City NW 75,864 77,396 74,383 74,861 19372 →
Aschaffenburg CityCR BY 64,098 68,361 67,359 71,692 6245 →
Augsburg CityCR BY 256,877 257,836 267,767 294,647 14685 →
Baden-Baden CityCR BW 51,849 53,084 52,314 55,887 14019 →
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe City HE 51,820 52,858 51,370 54,795 5114 →
Bad Kreuznach City RP 44,562 43,265 43,244 53,062 5556 →
Bad Oeynhausen City NW 46,475 49,850 48,623 50,394 6483 →
Bad Salzuflen City NW 53,771 55,088 52,285 53,889 10005 →
Bamberg CityCR BY 70,521 69,396 70,635 72,764 5462 →
Bayreuth CityCR BY 72,345 74,519 70,808 72,289 6689 →
Bergheim City NW 58,146 63,591 58,922 61,449 9634 →
Bergisch Gladbach City NW 104,037 105,569 108,878 110,898 8309 →
Berlin CityCR BE 3,433,695 3,388,434 3,292,365 3,596,999 89112 →
Bielefeld CityCR NW 319,037 323,373 326,870 330,072 25883 →
Böblingen City BW 44,903 45,940 44,859 50,705 3904 →
Bocholt City NW 68,936 72,701 71,256 71,985 11940 →
Bochum CityCR NW 396,486 390,087 362,286 354,288 14566 →
Bonn CityCR NW 292,234 306,016 305,765 321,544 14106 →
Bottrop CityCR NW 118,936 120,780 117,311 117,921 10062 →
Brandenburg an der Havel CityCR BB 92,491 77,245 71,569 73,552 22972 →
Braunschweig [Brunswick] CityCR NI 258,833 245,516 242,537 252,816 19270 →
Bremen CityCR HB 551,219 540,950 542,707 575,071 31784 →
Bremerhaven CityCR HB 130,446 118,701 108,156 118,133 10153 →
Castrop-Rauxel City NW 79,037 78,471 74,629 72,839 5168 →
Celle City NI 72,260 71,949 69,001 66,610 17602 →
Chemnitz CityCR SN 315,277 255,798 240,253 240,078 22103 →
Cottbus (Chóśebuz) CityCR BB 134,246 111,125 99,984 93,926 16562 →
Darmstadt CityCR HE 138,920 138,457 143,499 161,767 12207 →
Delmenhorst CityCR NI 75,154 76,284 73,322 80,845 6245 →
Dessau-Roßlau CityCR ST 114,130 97,627 86,030 75,938 24500 →
Detmold City NW 70,074 73,771 73,743 74,486 12939 →
Dinslaken City NW 65,313 71,005 67,853 66,606 4766 →
Dormagen City NW 58,260 63,295 62,208 64,259 8550 →
Dorsten City NW 78,035 81,293 76,860 74,257 17129 →
Dortmund CityCR NW 599,055 589,240 571,143 598,246 28071 →
Dresden CityCR SN 511,110 478,631 512,354 557,782 32849 →
Duisburg CityCR NW 535,447 512,030 488,468 501,415 23279 →
Düren City NW 86,508 92,292 88,789 94,149 8501 →
Düsseldorf [Dusseldorf] CityCR NW 575,794 570,765 586,291 611,258 21741 →
Elmshorn City SH 43,689 47,603 47,459 51,248 2136 →
Erfurt CityCR TH 224,461 200,126 200,868 218,200 26991 →
Erlangen CityCR BY 102,440 101,912 103,719 112,220 7696 →
Eschweiler City NW 54,675 55,257 54,671 57,093 7575 →
Essen CityCR NW 626,973 591,889 566,201 571,039 21034 →
Esslingen am Neckar City BW 91,685 90,905 86,885 94,442 4643 →
Euskirchen City NW 49,654 54,047 55,414 58,697 13949 →
Flensburg CityCR SH 86,977 84,480 82,258 95,015 5673 →
Frankfurt (Oder) CityCR BB 86,131 70,308 59,140 55,841 14785 →
Frankfurt am Main CityCR HE 644,865 641,076 667,925 743,268 24831 →
Frechen City NW 44,360 47,382 49,657 51,863 4506 →
Freiburg im Breisgau CityCR BW 191,029 208,294 209,628 233,040 15304 →
Friedrichshafen City BW 54,129 57,538 56,937 61,780 6993 →
Fulda City HE 56,289 62,819 64,414 64,688 10405 →
Fürth CityCR BY 103,362 111,257 115,613 130,126 6335 →
Garbsen City NI 60,776 63,271 59,499 59,534 7950 →
Gelsenkirchen CityCR NW 293,714 276,740 258,766 264,130 10494 →
Gera CityCR TH 134,116 109,926 96,067 93,120 15218 →
Gießen City HE 74,497 73,295 74,776 87,217 7261 →
Gladbeck City NW 80,267 77,460 73,974 75,515 3596 →
Göppingen City BW 54,957 57,536 55,037 57,809 5921 →
Görlitz City SN 75,991 60,264 54,441 54,664 6753 →
Göttingen City NI 121,831 123,822 115,843 124,548 11702 →
Greifswald City MV 66,251 53,533 55,447 55,617 5081 →
Grevenbroich City NW 60,835 65,039 61,741 65,230 10242 →
Gummersbach City NW 50,965 53,355 49,951 51,327 9541 →
Gütersloh City NW 86,807 95,459 94,172 99,344 11202 →
Hagen CityCR NW 214,449 202,060 187,944 189,614 16045 →
Halle (Saale) CityCR ST 310,234 243,045 229,153 226,586 13501 →
Hamburg CityCR HH 1,652,363 1,726,363 1,706,696 1,808,846 75509 →
Hameln City NI 58,539 59,052 56,756 58,123 10253 →
Hamm CityCR NW 179,639 183,805 176,037 179,070 22642 →
Hanau City HE 86,913 88,801 86,803 93,632 7647 →
Hannover [Hanover] City NI 513,010 516,415 506,416 513,291 20430 →
Hattingen City NW 58,241 58,023 54,253 52,758 7166 →
Heidelberg CityCR BW 136,796 141,509 146,751 153,809 10883 →
Heilbronn CityCR BW 115,843 120,163 116,059 128,303 9989 →
Herford City NW 63,893 65,097 65,213 66,985 7915 →
Herne CityCR NW 178,132 174,018 155,160 155,446 5142 →
Herten City NW 69,245 66,495 61,505 61,062 3733 →
Hilden City NW 54,782 56,615 54,390 55,085 2595 →
Hildesheim City NI 105,291 103,717 99,554 97,716 9229 →
Hürth City NW 50,808 54,095 55,082 61,209 5122 →
Ibbenbüren City NW 44,643 49,485 50,569 50,618 10887 →
Ingolstadt CityCR BY 105,489 117,311 124,927 136,468 13335 →
Iserlohn City NW 96,314 98,865 94,630 91,941 12549 →
Jena CityCR TH 105,610 101,157 105,739 110,369 11477 →
Kaiserslautern CityCR RP 99,351 99,794 96,340 99,689 13970 →
Karlsruhe CityCR BW 275,061 279,578 289,173 305,408 17342 →
Kassel CityCR HE 194,268 194,748 190,765 195,012 10679 →
Kempten (Allgäu) CityCR BY 61,906 61,505 64,078 65,050 6328 →
Kerpen City NW 57,337 63,652 63,273 65,763 11396 →
Kiel CityCR SH 245,567 232,242 235,782 249,132 11865 →
Kleve City NW 45,963 49,031 47,438 52,208 9776 →
Koblenz CityCR RP 108,733 107,730 107,825 112,963 10525 →
Köln [Cologne] CityCR NW 953,551 967,940 1,005,775 1,017,355 40501 →
Konstanz City BW 75,089 79,240 77,796 86,437 5412 →
Krefeld CityCR NW 244,020 239,559 222,247 230,666 13778 →
Landshut CityCR BY 59,066 59,513 63,544 67,880 6583 →
Langenfeld (Rheinland) City NW 53,455 58,757 56,829 59,650 4115 →
Langenhagen City NI 47,432 49,506 50,821 53,711 7197 →
Leipzig CityCR SN 556,754 493,052 502,979 598,899 29780 →
Leverkusen CityCR NW 160,919 160,829 158,984 166,356 7887 →
Lingen (Ems) City NI 49,137 51,362 51,821 55,092 17619 →
Lippstadt City NW 62,345 67,231 65,886 68,100 11368 →
Lübeck CityCR SH 214,758 213,496 210,305 215,958 21419 →
Lüdenscheid City NW 79,401 80,509 73,762 71,688 8702 →
Ludwigsburg City BW 82,343 87,502 86,139 91,810 4334 →
Ludwigshafen am Rhein CityCR RP 162,173 162,458 157,584 172,889 7743 →
Lüneburg City NI 61,870 68,234 69,905 72,870 7050 →
Lünen City NW 87,845 92,005 86,010 85,234 5939 →
Magdeburg CityCR ST 280,536 229,755 228,144 241,517 20103 →
Mainz CityCR RP 179,486 185,293 200,344 220,386 9773 →
Mannheim CityCR BW 310,411 308,385 290,117 313,693 14497 →
Marburg City HE 74,146 77,556 71,683 72,768 12391 →
Marl City NW 91,467 92,628 84,782 85,684 8775 →
Meerbusch City NW 52,104 55,172 54,313 56,999 6440 →
Menden (Sauerland) City NW 56,527 59,183 54,495 52,434 8610 →
Minden City NW 78,145 82,898 80,121 83,743 10112 →
Moers City NW 104,595 107,421 104,009 100,465 6768 →
Mönchengladbach CityCR NW 259,436 262,963 255,188 264,089 17047 →
Mülheim an der Ruhr CityCR NW 177,681 172,332 166,865 171,435 9128 →
München [Munich] CityCR BY 1,229,026 1,227,958 1,348,335 1,478,638 31070 →
Münster CityCR NW 259,438 267,197 289,576 303,772 30328 →
Neubrandenburg City MV 89,284 71,723 64,111 59,794 8612 →
Neumünster CityCR SH 80,743 79,646 77,249 79,625 7166 →
Neuss City NW 147,019 150,957 150,568 153,079 9952 →
Neustadt an der Weinstraße CityCR RP 51,988 53,822 52,164 52,778 11709 →
Neu-Ulm City BY 46,264 50,709 52,706 60,597 8095 →
Neuwied City RP 62,075 67,011 64,144 66,125 8650 →
Norderstedt City SH 68,450 72,016 73,913 80,316 5810 →
Nordhorn City NI 49,359 52,479 52,029 55,724 14987 →
Nürnberg [Nuremberg] CityCR BY 493,692 491,307 486,314 522,554 18644 →
Oberhausen CityCR NW 223,840 221,619 210,216 212,127 7709 →
Offenbach am Main CityCR HE 114,992 118,429 113,443 129,479 4488 →
Offenburg City BW 52,964 58,280 57,228 62,220 7837 →
Oldenburg (Oldenburg) CityCR NI 143,131 155,908 157,267 172,759 10309 →
Osnabrück CityCR NI 163,168 164,195 153,699 164,898 11980 →
Paderborn City NW 120,680 140,869 142,365 155,516 17959 →
Passau CityCR BY 50,328 50,669 48,649 51,907 6956 →
Peine City NI 46,654 49,499 48,582 50,276 11984 →
Pforzheim CityCR BW 112,944 118,002 114,411 133,110 9799 →
Plauen City SN 76,677 71,155 64,468 64,674 10211 →
Potsdam CityCR BB 147,279 141,907 156,021 182,806 18824 →
Pulheim City NW 49,353 53,441 52,929 55,199 7215 →
Rastatt City BW 42,376 46,264 46,648 50,546 5898 →
Ratingen City NW 91,007 91,793 86,967 88,425 8874 →
Recklinghausen City NW 125,060 124,587 115,958 115,216 6650 →
Regensburg CityCR BY 121,691 127,198 135,403 145,901 8086 →
Remscheid CityCR NW 123,155 118,753 110,708 113,743 7452 →
Reutlingen City BW 103,687 111,338 109,799 116,925 8704 →
Rheine City NW 70,452 75,925 72,749 76,344 14500 →
Rosenheim CityCR BY 56,340 59,310 59,329 63,284 3722 →
Rostock CityCR MV 248,088 198,964 200,265 203,470 18136 →
Rüsselsheim am Main City HE 59,430 59,551 58,765 64,517 5829 →
Saarbrücken City SL 191,694 182,858 175,853 179,296 16752 →
Salzgitter CityCR NI 114,355 111,696 98,895 104,215 22449 →
Sankt Augustin City NW 51,886 55,539 53,850 55,985 3422 →
Schwäbisch Gmünd City BW 60,081 61,873 58,105 63,449 11381 →
Schweinfurt CityCR BY 54,483 54,568 52,143 53,242 3570 →
Schwerin CityCR MV 127,447 99,978 91,293 96,447 13052 →
Siegen City NW 109,174 108,397 99,187 102,275 11469 →
Sindelfingen City BW 58,805 60,878 60,534 60,545 5083 →
Solingen CityCR NW 165,401 165,032 155,265 164,621 8954 →
Stolberg (Rhld.) City NW 57,231 58,718 56,206 57,165 9848 →
Stralsund City MV 72,780 59,970 56,729 53,996 5459 →
Stuttgart CityCR BW 579,988 587,152 585,890 610,458 20733 →
Trier CityCR RP 97,835 100,024 105,671 102,727 11706 →
Troisdorf City NW 64,430 73,282 72,408 75,335 6200 →
Tübingen City BW 80,372 82,444 82,511 90,499 10806 →
Ulm CityCR BW 110,529 118,347 116,761 127,116 11868 →
Unna City NW 61,552 70,117 59,149 59,515 8856 →
Velbert City NW 89,253 89,823 81,303 82,319 7490 →
Viersen City NW 77,453 77,259 74,941 76,146 9110 →
Villingen-Schwenningen City BW 78,218 81,691 80,123 87,478 16553 →
Waiblingen City BW 48,387 52,536 51,552 57,280 4275 →
Weimar CityCR TH 64,246 63,522 62,764 65,494 8448 →
Wesel City NW 59,631 62,151 60,335 59,988 12256 →
Wetzlar City HE 51,737 52,657 50,826 53,116 7565 →
Wiesbaden CityCR HE 260,301 271,076 269,121 284,260 20387 →
Wilhelmshaven CityCR NI 90,561 84,994 77,451 75,366 10711 →
Witten City NW 105,403 103,158 96,382 91,735 7240 →
Wolfenbüttel City NI 52,032 54,517 51,756 51,750 7873 →
Wolfsburg CityCR NI 128,510 121,887 119,984 127,145 20462 →
Worms CityCR RP 76,503 80,625 79,207 84,986 10873 →
Wuppertal CityCR NW 383,660 364,784 342,661 356,768 16839 →
Würzburg CityCR BY 127,777 129,915 124,297 131,316 8760 →
Zwickau City SN 122,979 101,726 93,081 87,020 10258 →