Germany - Agglomerations: Federal State & Agglomerations - Statistics & Maps on City Population

Federal State

	Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	A (km2)	E 1995-12-31	E 2001-12-31	E 2005-12-31
<	Baden-Württemberg {Baden-Wurttemberg}	BW	FSt	Stuttgart	35,742	10,319,367	10,600,906	10,735,701
<	Bayern [Bavaria]	BY	FSt	München	70,549	11,993,484	12,329,714	12,468,726
<	Berlin	BE	FSt	Berlin	892	3,471,418	3,388,434	3,395,189
<	Brandenburg	BB	FSt	Potsdam	29,477	2,542,042	2,593,040	2,559,483
<	Bremen	HB	FSt	Bremen	404	679,575	659,651	663,467
<	Hamburg	HH	FSt	Hamburg	755	1,707,901	1,726,363	1,743,627
<	Hessen [Hesse]	HE	FSt	Wiesbaden	21,115	6,009,913	6,077,826	6,092,354
<	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [-Western Pomerania]	MV	FSt	Schwerin	23,173	1,823,084	1,759,705	1,707,266
<	Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony]	NI	FSt	Hannover	47,618	7,780,422	7,956,416	7,993,946
<	Nordrhein-Westfalen [North Rhine-Westphalia]	NW	FSt	Düsseldorf	34,083	17,893,045	18,052,092	18,058,105
<	Rheinland-Pfalz [Rhineland-Palatinate]	RP	FSt	Mainz	19,853	3,977,919	4,049,066	4,058,843
<	Saarland	SL	FSt	Saarbrücken	2,569	1,084,370	1,066,470	1,050,293
<	Sachsen [Saxony]	SN	FSt	Dresden	18,413	4,566,603	4,384,192	4,273,754
<	Sachsen-Anhalt [Saxony-Anhalt]	ST	FSt	Magdeburg	20,445	2,738,928	2,580,626	2,469,716
<	Schleswig-Holstein	SH	FSt	Kiel	15,763	2,725,461	2,804,249	2,832,950
<	Thüringen [Thuringia] {Thuringen}	TH	FSt	Erfurt	16,172	2,503,785	2,411,387	2,334,575
	Germany	DEU		Berlin	357,027	81,817,499	82,440,137	82,437,995

	Name	Adm.	A E 2005-12-31
1	Essen	NW	5,746,018
2	Berlin	BE	4,200,072
3	Stuttgart	BW	2,625,690
4	Hamburg	HH	2,549,338
5	München	BY	1,940,477
6	Frankfurt	HE	1,915,002
7	Köln	NW	1,846,241
8	Mannheim	BW	1,579,252
9	Düsseldorf	NW	1,318,512
10	Nürnberg	BY	1,030,168
11	Hannover	NI	1,001,580
12	Saarbrücken	SL	942,594
13	Bonn	NW	899,753
14	Bremen	HB	858,488
15	Wuppertal	NW	832,685

Table of Agglomerations

	Name	Adm.	A E 1995-12-31	A E 2001-12-31	A E 2005-12-31
<	Aachen [Aix-la-Chapelle]	NW	579,489	584,342	599,676
<	Aalen	BW	80,403	80,533	80,946
<	Altenburg	TH	56,729	51,565	48,309
<	Amberg	BY	56,651	57,884	58,216
<	Arnsberg	NW	111,562	110,041	108,613
<	Aschaffenburg	BY	163,910	168,369	169,326
<	Aue	SN	99,860	96,109	91,342
<	Augsburg	BY	424,935	430,308	437,613
<	Baden-Baden	BW	144,934	145,671	149,346
<	Bad Kreuznach	RP	104,260	106,354	107,485
<	Bad Nauheim	HE	80,506	83,985	85,413
<	Bad Oeynhausen	NW	169,509	173,585	173,068
<	Bamberg	BY	104,139	104,927	106,095
<	Bautzen (Budyšin)	SN	52,729	47,854	47,537
<	Bayreuth	BY	83,295	85,407	85,035
<	Berlin	BE	4,064,108	4,101,213	4,200,072
<	Bielefeld	NW	566,270	578,980	585,145
<	Bitterfeld-Wolfen	ST	91,505	79,433	73,980
<	Bocholt	NW	88,430	91,475	92,992
<	Bonn	NW	829,977	878,742	899,753
<	Brandenburg (Havel)	BB	90,257	81,444	77,284
<	Braunschweig [Brunswick]	NI	349,672	346,815	347,101
<	Bremen	HB	848,991	849,800	858,488
<	Bremerhaven	HB	205,107	195,863	193,294
<	Bühl {Buhl}	BW	64,377	67,418	68,673
<	Celle	NI	87,912	86,843	86,463
<	Chemnitz	SN	457,627	432,445	416,671
<	Coburg	BY	86,795	85,765	84,606
<	Cottbus (Chóśebuz)	BB	135,670	121,861	115,298
<	Cuxhaven	NI	55,229	53,168	52,095
<	Darmstadt	HE	511,762	525,046	531,077
<	Dessau (-Roßlau)	ST	107,200	97,435	92,339
<	Detmold	NW	109,274	109,928	109,497
<	Dillenburg	HE	73,527	73,080	71,845
<	Dresden	SN	697,142	681,953	695,680
<	Düren {Duren}	NW	129,312	134,756	136,038
<	Düsseldorf [Dusseldorf] {Dusseldorf}	NW	1,303,958	1,315,736	1,318,512
<	Eberswalde-Finow	BB	57,358	53,535	52,228
<	Eisenach	TH	54,034	51,946	50,975
<	Emden	NI	58,801	58,522	59,032
<	Erfurt	TH	215,429	204,510	207,073
<	Essen	NW	5,931,939	5,823,685	5,746,018
<	Euskirchen	NW	52,205	54,047	55,110
<	Flensburg	SH	115,586	114,462	116,712
<	Frankfurt (am Main)	HE	1,875,398	1,896,741	1,915,002
<	Frankfurt (Oder)	BB	80,807	70,308	63,748
<	Freiberg	SN	62,449	59,713	59,535
<	Freiburg (im Breisgau)	BW	357,865	373,124	385,126
<	Friedrichshafen	BW	80,130	81,680	82,983
<	Fulda	HE	100,613	104,041	105,972
<	Gera	TH	146,456	132,098	125,457
<	Geretsried	BY	46,691	49,139	49,944
<	Gießen	HE	307,629	308,727	309,926
<	Görlitz {Gorlitz}	SN	74,421	67,655	64,690
<	Goslar	NI	83,703	80,657	78,921
<	Gotha	TH	52,277	48,872	47,860
<	Göttingen {Gottingen}	NI	150,769	148,858	147,474
<	Greifswald	MV	61,745	54,810	54,516
<	Greiz	TH	70,918	65,091	61,312
<	Gummersbach	NW	73,921	74,164	73,554
<	Halle (Saale)	ST	354,458	313,609	302,825
<	Hamburg	HH	2,457,538	2,515,468	2,549,338
<	Hameln	NI	58,781	59,052	58,739
<	Hannover [Hanover]	NI	989,808	996,586	1,001,580
<	Heidenheim (an der Brenz)	BW	65,550	64,205	62,794
<	Heilbronn	BW	306,958	319,899	324,670
<	Herford	NW	120,948	120,185	119,638
<	Hildesheim	NI	147,721	147,177	146,051
<	Hof	BY	62,216	60,647	58,726
<	Hoyerswerda (Wojerecy)	SN	66,022	54,302	48,838
<	Ibbenbüren {Ibbenburen}	NW	59,204	61,995	63,364
<	Ingolstadt	BY	143,035	150,505	155,425
<	Jena	TH	102,509	102,909	104,290
<	Kaiserslautern	RP	131,657	130,051	128,844
<	Karlsruhe	BW	575,507	590,718	600,161
<	Kassel	HE	333,653	330,290	329,999
<	Kempten (Allgäu)	BY	70,670	71,048	71,171
<	Kiel	SH	338,504	328,553	331,045
<	Kleve	NW	60,659	61,392	62,025
<	Koblenz	RP	349,120	349,136	346,345
<	Köln [Cologne] {Koln}	NW	1,799,266	1,823,475	1,846,241
<	Konstanz	BW	87,627	91,505	93,463
<	Landau (in der Pfalz)	RP	51,458	52,971	54,376
<	Landshut	BY	80,101	82,002	84,104
<	Leipzig	SN	616,290	568,200	580,050
<	Limburg (an der Lahn)	HE	72,805	75,374	75,910
<	Lingen (Ems)	NI	52,270	51,362	51,317
<	Lippstadt	NW	81,618	82,956	83,361
<	Lörrach {Lorrach}	BW	158,631	164,439	166,071
<	Lübeck {Lubeck}	SH	291,259	289,373	288,289
<	Lüdenscheid {Ludenscheid}	NW	81,837	80,509	78,688
<	Lüneburg {Luneburg}	NI	93,291	99,207	103,753
<	Magdeburg	ST	281,693	256,041	256,290
<	Mannheim	BW	1,553,967	1,568,679	1,579,252
<	Marburg	HE	83,735	84,609	86,247
<	Memmingen	BY	49,547	50,645	50,577
<	Minden	NW	145,358	145,822	146,019
<	Mönchengladbach {Monchengladbach}	NW	470,917	476,306	475,584
<	München [Munich] {Munchen}	BY	1,860,040	1,893,715	1,940,477
<	Münster {Munster}	NW	283,533	286,567	290,396
<	Neubrandenburg	MV	81,179	72,808	69,214
<	Neumünster {Neumunster}	SH	86,192	84,102	82,684
<	Neustadt (an der Weinstraße)	RP	71,251	71,738	71,638
<	Nordhausen	TH	53,855	51,812	50,036
<	Nordhorn	NI	51,269	52,479	53,085
<	Nürnberg [Nuremberg] {Nurnberg}	BY	1,010,751	1,018,211	1,030,168
<	Offenburg	BW	81,544	84,934	85,847
<	Oldenburg (Oldenburg)	NI	185,223	191,538	195,071
<	Osnabrück {Osnabruck}	NI	310,280	309,878	310,573
<	Paderborn	NW	168,815	177,706	181,546
<	Passau	BY	57,220	57,473	57,409
<	Peine	NI	71,282	72,589	72,697
<	Pforzheim	BW	169,107	169,648	171,382
<	Pirmasens	RP	67,406	64,017	61,933
<	Plauen	SN	86,855	83,709	81,125
<	Ravensburg	BW	76,869	78,870	79,883
<	Regensburg	BY	185,925	192,683	197,309
<	Rendsburg	SH	59,999	60,132	59,924
<	Reutlingen	BW	347,741	358,010	364,453
<	Rheine	NW	87,060	89,535	90,381
<	Riesa	SN	57,398	52,795	51,940
<	Rosenheim	BY	135,983	140,882	144,439
<	Rostock	MV	235,013	211,964	213,329
<	Saarbrücken {Saarbrucken}	SL	960,914	959,084	942,594
<	Salzgitter	NI	128,718	124,131	120,845
<	Schwäbisch Gmünd {Schwabisch Gmund}	BW	87,314	86,359	86,360
<	Schweinfurt	BY	89,441	89,194	88,460
<	Schwerin	MV	120,329	109,454	106,490
<	Siegen	NW	260,003	256,520	252,450
<	Singen (Hohentwiel)	BW	90,215	93,256	94,446
<	Soest	NW	47,730	48,361	48,534
<	Stade	NI	49,186	49,538	50,391
<	Starnberg	BY	47,426	49,675	50,804
<	Stralsund	MV	66,801	61,600	60,495
<	Stuttgart	BW	2,529,675	2,593,087	2,625,690
<	Suhl	TH	66,691	59,726	54,934
<	Trier	RP	138,412	140,624	140,461
<	Ulm	BW	238,508	243,372	247,544
<	Villingen-Schwenningen	BW	100,687	102,541	103,140
<	Weiden (in der Oberpfalz)	BY	55,931	56,557	55,920
<	Weimar	TH	64,763	66,420	67,421
<	Wiesbaden	HE	764,311	780,190	795,725
<	Wilhelmshaven	NI	120,404	115,788	114,178
<	Wismar	MV	55,237	52,253	51,160
<	Wittenberg	ST	56,636	52,101	49,562
<	Wolfsburg	NI	131,415	127,609	127,107
<	Wuppertal	NW	868,139	846,815	832,685
<	Würzburg {Wurzburg}	BY	199,260	204,185	208,969
<	Zwickau	SN	244,251	230,376	221,032

The population figures of the agglomerations are computed according to an own defintion using the population of communes which are taken from:
(1995) Amtliche Schlüsselnummern und Bevölkerungsdaten der Gemeinden und Verwaltungsbezirke in der BR Deutschland, Ausgabe 1995.
(2001) (2005) Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland: Gemeindeverzeichnis (web).

GERMANY: Agglomerations

Contents

Federal State

Principal Agglomerations

Table of Agglomerations