Germany (Major Cities): Federal State & Major Cities - Statistics & Maps on City Population

Federal State

	Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	Area A (km²)	Population C 1987-05-25	Population E 1995-12-31	Population E 2001-12-31	Population E 2005-12-31	Population E 2011-12-31
i	Baden-Württemberg {Baden-Wurttemberg}	BW	FSt	Stuttgart	35,751	9,286,387	10,319,367	10,600,906	10,735,701	10,786,227	3575100
i	Bayern [Bavaria]	BY	FSt	München	70,550	10,902,643	11,993,484	12,329,714	12,468,726	12,595,891	7055000
i	Berlin	BE	FSt	Berlin	892	3,260,000	3,471,418	3,388,434	3,395,189	3,501,872	89200
i	Brandenburg	BB	FSt	Potsdam	29,484	2,665,000	2,542,042	2,593,040	2,559,483	2,495,635	2948400
i	Bremen	HB	FSt	Bremen	419	660,084	679,757	659,651	663,467	661,301	41900
i	Hamburg	HH	FSt	Hamburg	755	1,592,770	1,707,901	1,726,363	1,743,627	1,798,836	75500
i	Hessen [Hesse]	HE	FSt	Wiesbaden	21,115	5,507,777	6,009,913	6,077,826	6,092,354	6,092,126	2111500
i	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [-Western Pomerania]	MV	FSt	Schwerin	23,194	1,971,000	1,823,084	1,759,877	1,707,266	1,634,734	2319400
i	Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony]	NI	FSt	Hannover	47,614	7,162,103	7,780,422	7,956,416	7,993,946	7,913,502	4761400
i	Nordrhein-Westfalen [North Rhine-Westphalia]	NW	FSt	Düsseldorf	34,098	16,711,845	17,893,045	18,052,092	18,058,105	17,841,956	3409800
i	Rheinland-Pfalz [Rhineland-Palatinate]	RP	FSt	Mainz	19,854	3,630,823	3,977,919	4,049,066	4,058,843	3,999,117	1985400
i	Saarland	SL	FSt	Saarbrücken	2,569	1,055,660	1,084,370	1,066,470	1,050,293	1,013,352	256900
i	Sachsen [Saxony]	SN	FSt	Dresden	18,420	5,032,000	4,566,603	4,384,192	4,273,754	4,137,051	1842000
i	Sachsen-Anhalt [Saxony-Anhalt]	ST	FSt	Magdeburg	20,450	3,008,000	2,738,928	2,580,626	2,469,716	2,313,280	2045000
i	Schleswig-Holstein	SH	FSt	Kiel	15,800	2,554,241	2,725,461	2,804,249	2,832,950	2,837,641	1580000
i	Thüringen [Thuringia] {Thuringen}	TH	FSt	Erfurt	16,173	2,718,000	2,503,785	2,411,387	2,334,575	2,221,222	1617300
	Germany	DEU	Fed Rep	Berlin	357,137	77,718,000	81,817,499	82,440,309	82,437,995	81,843,743

Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (web).

Major Cities

	Name	Adm.	Population C E 2011-12-31
1	Berlin	BE	3,501,872
2	Hamburg	HH	1,798,836
3	München	BY	1,378,176
4	Köln	NW	1,017,155
5	Frankfurt	HE	691,518
6	Stuttgart	BW	613,392
7	Düsseldorf	NW	592,393
8	Dortmund	NW	580,956
9	Essen	NW	573,468
10	Bremen	HB	548,319

Contents: Cities

	Name	Status	Adm.	Population C C 1987-05-25	Population C E 1995-12-31	Population C E 2001-12-31	Population C E 2005-12-31	Population C E 2011-12-31	Area
i	Aachen [Aix-la-Chapelle]	City	NW	229,740	247,923	245,778	258,208	260,454	16087
i	Aalen	City	BW	62,633	66,234	66,559	67,066	66,277	14663
i	Ahlen	City	NW	52,657	55,785	55,481	55,104	53,090	12313
i	Arnsberg	City	NW	74,091	78,972	77,396	76,427	73,732	19372
i	Aschaffenburg	CityCR	BY	60,964	66,360	68,361	68,642	68,808	6247
i	Augsburg	CityCR	BY	242,819	259,699	257,836	262,676	266,647	14684
i	Baden-Baden	CityCR	BW	50,127	52,745	53,084	54,581	54,461	14021
i	Bad Homburg (vor der Höhe)	City	HE	50,329	51,178	52,858	51,883	52,528	5116
i	Bad Salzuflen	City	NW	50,588	55,029	55,088	54,673	53,812	10005
i	Bamberg	CityCR	BY	69,100	69,652	69,396	70,081	70,084	5462
i	Bayreuth	CityCR	BY	69,813	73,016	74,519	73,997	73,111	6691
i	Bergheim	City	NW	54,545	60,610	63,591	63,015	61,668	9634
i	Bergisch Gladbach	City	NW	100,589	105,478	105,569	105,761	105,836	8309
i	Bergkamen	City	NW	47,660	51,838	52,955	52,225	50,267	4484
i	Berlin	CityCR	BE	3,260,000	3,471,418	3,388,434	3,395,189	3,501,872	89175
i	Bielefeld	CityCR	NW	305,566	324,066	323,373	326,925	323,395	25793
i	Bocholt	City	NW	67,028	70,424	72,701	73,790	73,052	11937
i	Bochum	CityCR	NW	386,271	400,395	390,087	385,626	373,976	14566
i	Bonn	CityCR	NW	276,653	291,431	306,016	312,818	327,913	14122
i	Bottrop	CityCR	NW	114,640	120,642	120,780	119,356	116,361	10062
i	Brandenburg (Havel)	CityCR	BB	...	86,753	77,245	74,129	71,534	22885
i	Braunschweig [Brunswick]	CityCR	NI	252,351	252,544	245,516	245,273	250,556	19216
i	Bremen	CityCR	HB	533,455	549,357	540,950	546,852	548,319	32542
i	Bremerhaven	CityCR	HB	126,629	130,400	118,701	116,615	112,982	9382
i	Castrop-Rauxel	City	NW	77,081	79,160	78,471	77,619	74,935	5167
i	Celle	City	NI	71,222	73,936	71,949	71,336	69,972	17503
i	Chemnitz	CityCR	SN	335,983	288,268	255,798	246,587	243,173	22084
i	Cottbus (Chóśebuz)	CityCR	BB	...	126,343	111,125	105,309	102,129	16429
i	Cuxhaven	City	NI	56,049	55,229	53,168	52,095	50,055	16191
i	Darmstadt	CityCR	HE	134,272	138,980	138,457	140,562	149,052	12209
i	Delmenhorst	CityCR	NI	72,072	78,226	76,284	75,916	74,497	6236
i	Dessau (-Roßlau)	CityCR	ST	...	107,698	97,627	92,339	85,838	24474
i	Detmold	City	NW	65,502	73,343	73,771	73,508	72,646	12939
i	Dinslaken	City	NW	62,458	69,148	71,005	70,189	69,227	4768
i	Dormagen	City	NW	54,790	61,155	63,295	63,466	63,019	8549
i	Dorsten	City	NW	73,744	80,735	81,293	79,639	76,223	17120
i	Dortmund	CityCR	NW	584,089	598,840	589,240	588,168	580,956	28071
i	Dresden	CityCR	SN	542,252	495,242	478,631	495,181	529,781	32831
i	Duisburg	CityCR	NW	525,378	535,250	512,030	501,564	488,005	23283
i	Düren {Duren}	City	NW	82,857	90,274	92,292	93,656	92,486	8500
i	Düsseldorf [Dusseldorf] {Dusseldorf}	CityCR	NW	563,531	571,030	570,765	574,514	592,393	21741
i	Emden	CityCR	NI	50,144	51,559	51,185	51,693	51,528	11235
i	Erftstadt	City	NW	43,939	48,717	50,998	51,122	50,502	11989
i	Erfurt	CityCR	TH	...	211,108	200,126	202,844	206,384	26914
i	Erlangen	CityCR	BY	99,808	101,406	101,912	103,197	106,326	7695
i	Eschweiler	City	NW	53,058	56,171	55,257	55,691	55,425	7588
i	Essen	CityCR	NW	623,427	614,861	591,889	585,430	573,468	21034
i	Esslingen (am Neckar)	City	BW	90,557	90,029	90,905	92,091	92,629	4642
i	Euskirchen	City	NW	47,050	52,205	54,047	55,110	55,639	13949
i	Flensburg	CityCR	SH	86,554	87,276	84,480	86,080	89,357	5674
i	Frankfurt (am Main)	CityCR	HE	618,266	650,055	641,076	651,899	691,518	24831
i	Frankfurt (Oder)	CityCR	BB	86,441	80,807	70,308	63,748	60,002	14781
i	Frechen	City	NW	42,348	45,583	47,382	48,965	50,590	4510
i	Freiburg (im Breisgau)	CityCR	BW	178,672	199,273	208,294	215,966	229,144	15306
i	Friedrichshafen	City	BW	51,808	56,315	57,538	58,068	59,286	6993
i	Fulda	City	HE	54,322	60,851	62,819	63,958	64,249	10404
i	Fürth {Furth}	CityCR	BY	97,480	108,418	111,257	113,422	116,317	6335
i	Garbsen	City	NI	58,081	62,681	63,271	63,123	61,652	7931
i	Gelsenkirchen	CityCR	NW	287,508	291,164	276,740	268,102	256,652	10494
i	Gera	CityCR	TH	...	123,555	109,926	103,948	98,762	15192
i	Gießen	City	HE	69,824	73,889	73,295	73,690	78,584	7256
i	Gladbeck	City	NW	78,343	79,605	77,460	76,861	75,246	3591
i	Göppingen {Goppingen}	City	BW	52,151	58,086	57,536	57,771	56,834	5923
i	Görlitz {Gorlitz}	City	SN	83,215	67,933	60,264	57,629	55,350	6723
i	Göttingen {Gottingen}	City	NI	114,698	126,253	123,822	121,884	121,364	11689
i	Greifswald	CityCR	MV	67,298	60,772	53,533	53,281	55,051	5051
i	Grevenbroich	City	NW	58,611	63,604	65,039	64,372	63,488	10251
i	Gummersbach	City	NW	48,250	53,149	53,355	53,048	51,023	9542
i	Gütersloh {Gutersloh}	City	NW	81,804	92,842	95,459	96,145	96,758	11200
i	Hagen	CityCR	NW	209,363	212,003	202,060	196,934	187,447	16035
i	Halle (Saale)	CityCR	ST	329,625	282,784	243,045	237,198	233,705	13503
i	Hamburg	CityCR	HH	1,592,770	1,707,901	1,726,363	1,743,627	1,798,836	75530
i	Hameln	City	NI	58,181	58,781	59,052	58,739	57,342	10233
i	Hamm	CityCR	NW	171,170	183,408	183,805	184,239	182,112	22626
i	Hanau	City	HE	83,391	88,921	88,801	88,746	89,688	7649
i	Hannover [Hanover]	City	NI	494,864	523,147	516,415	515,729	525,875	20414
i	Hattingen	City	NW	55,880	58,650	58,023	56,979	55,388	7140
i	Heidelberg	CityCR	BW	127,768	138,781	141,509	142,993	149,633	10883
i	Heilbronn	CityCR	BW	110,970	121,509	120,163	121,613	124,257	9988
i	Herford	City	NW	60,935	65,919	65,097	64,965	63,786	7916
i	Herne	CityCR	NW	174,238	179,897	174,018	170,992	164,244	5141
i	Herten	City	NW	67,806	69,183	66,495	64,807	61,634	3733
i	Hilden	City	NW	53,262	55,086	56,615	56,545	55,508	2596
i	Hildesheim	City	NI	103,449	106,101	103,717	102,575	102,584	9218
i	Hürth {Hurth}	City	NW	48,376	52,351	54,095	55,169	58,673	5122
i	Ibbenbüren {Ibbenburen}	City	NW	43,243	47,421	49,485	51,010	51,487	10856
i	Ingolstadt	CityCR	BY	96,071	111,979	117,311	121,314	126,732	13337
i	Iserlohn	City	NW	92,183	99,341	98,865	97,285	94,536	12551
i	Jena	CityCR	TH	...	101,061	101,157	102,532	105,463	11448
i	Kaiserslautern	CityCR	RP	97,326	102,002	99,794	98,372	99,790	13973
i	Karlsruhe	CityCR	BW	260,591	275,690	279,578	285,263	297,488	17346
i	Kassel	CityCR	HE	187,288	201,573	194,748	194,427	196,526	10678
i	Kempten (Allgäu)	CityCR	BY	59,369	61,657	61,505	61,360	62,240	6328
i	Kerpen	City	NW	53,608	61,998	63,652	64,348	64,839	11392
i	Kiel	CityCR	SH	237,767	246,033	232,242	234,433	242,041	11865
i	Koblenz	CityCR	RP	108,246	109,219	107,730	106,501	106,677	10508
i	Köln [Cologne] {Koln}	CityCR	NW	928,309	965,697	967,940	983,347	1,017,155	40517
i	Konstanz	City	BW	70,378	76,000	79,240	81,217	85,524	5411
i	Krefeld	CityCR	NW	232,261	249,606	239,559	237,701	234,396	13775
i	Landshut	CityCR	BY	56,446	59,219	59,513	61,368	64,258	6581
i	Langenfeld (Rheinland)	City	NW	50,297	56,676	58,757	58,993	59,248	4115
i	Langenhagen	City	NI	45,965	48,921	49,506	50,883	53,003	7186
i	Leipzig	CityCR	SN	600,543	520,257	493,052	502,651	531,809	29737
i	Leverkusen	CityCR	NW	154,692	162,252	160,829	161,227	161,195	7887
i	Lingen (Ems)	City	NI	47,489	52,270	51,362	51,317	51,007	17613
i	Lippstadt	City	NW	60,102	66,636	67,231	67,446	66,936	11360
i	Lübeck {Lubeck}	CityCR	SH	210,497	216,986	213,496	211,825	210,577	21421
i	Lüdenscheid {Ludenscheid}	City	NW	74,635	81,837	80,509	78,688	75,199	8673
i	Ludwigsburg	City	BW	78,884	86,810	87,502	87,673	88,673	4335
i	Ludwigshafen (am Rhein)	CityCR	RP	156,601	167,369	162,458	163,343	165,560	7755
i	Lüneburg {Luneburg}	City	NI	59,543	64,558	68,234	71,842	73,581	7034
i	Lünen {Lunen}	City	NW	84,664	91,592	92,005	90,022	87,061	5920
i	Magdeburg	CityCR	ST	288,975	258,656	229,755	229,126	232,364	20099
i	Mainz	CityCR	RP	172,529	183,720	185,293	194,372	200,957	9774
i	Mannheim	CityCR	BW	295,191	311,292	308,385	307,900	314,931	14496
i	Marburg	City	HE	68,624	76,834	77,556	79,139	81,147	12392
i	Marl	City	NW	89,063	92,965	92,628	90,816	87,201	8765
i	Meerbusch	City	NW	50,240	54,206	55,172	54,367	54,572	6439
i	Menden (Sauerland)	City	NW	54,058	58,424	59,183	57,984	55,096	8606
i	Minden	City	NW	75,031	82,971	82,898	83,118	81,904	10108
i	Moers	City	NW	100,872	107,095	107,421	107,547	105,102	6769
i	Mönchengladbach {Monchengladbach}	CityCR	NW	249,587	266,702	262,963	261,444	257,208	17045
i	Mülheim (an der Ruhr) {Mulheim}	CityCR	NW	175,423	176,530	172,332	169,917	167,156	9128
i	München [Munich] {Munchen}	CityCR	BY	1,185,421	1,236,370	1,227,958	1,259,677	1,378,176	31070
i	Münster {Munster}	CityCR	NW	246,186	265,061	267,197	270,868	291,754	30295
i	Neubrandenburg	CityCR	MV	87,235	80,483	71,723	68,188	64,995	8566
i	Neumünster {Neumunster}	CityCR	SH	79,771	82,028	79,646	78,072	76,939	7163
i	Neuss	City	NW	142,178	148,796	150,957	151,610	152,010	9953
i	Neustadt (an der Weinstraße)	CityCR	RP	50,120	53,788	53,822	53,628	52,941	11710
i	Neu-Ulm	City	BY	44,438	51,053	50,709	51,410	54,314	8096
i	Neuwied	City	RP	60,261	67,374	67,011	66,144	64,184	8650
i	Norderstedt	City	SH	65,976	69,766	72,016	71,330	72,436	5810
i	Nordhorn	City	NI	48,368	51,269	52,479	53,085	53,058	14968
i	Nürnberg [Nuremberg] {Nurnberg}	CityCR	BY	470,943	492,425	491,307	499,237	510,602	18637
i	Oberhausen	CityCR	NW	220,286	224,397	221,619	218,898	212,568	7710
i	Offenbach (am Main)	CityCR	HE	111,386	116,533	118,429	119,430	122,705	4489
i	Offenburg	City	BW	51,311	56,045	58,280	58,793	59,283	7838
i	Oldenburg (Oldenburg)	CityCR	NI	140,149	151,382	155,908	158,565	162,481	10298
i	Osnabrück {Osnabruck}	CityCR	NI	150,807	168,618	164,195	163,814	165,021	11980
i	Paderborn	City	NW	110,715	133,717	140,869	143,769	147,688	17960
i	Passau	CityCR	BY	48,516	50,885	50,669	50,651	50,548	6957
i	Pforzheim	CityCR	BW	106,530	118,763	118,002	119,021	120,709	9800
i	Plauen	City	SN	82,628	73,185	71,155	68,892	65,738	10212
i	Potsdam	CityCR	BB	...	144,118	141,907	147,583	158,902	18752
i	Pulheim	City	NW	47,852	51,365	53,441	53,694	54,031	7215
i	Ratingen	City	NW	88,631	89,534	91,793	91,975	90,982	8872
i	Recklinghausen	City	NW	119,991	127,216	124,587	121,827	117,672	6643
i	Regensburg	CityCR	BY	118,639	125,836	127,198	129,859	136,577	8070
i	Remscheid	CityCR	NW	120,132	122,260	118,753	115,864	109,596	7460
i	Reutlingen	City	BW	98,853	108,565	111,338	112,252	112,735	8706
i	Rheine	City	NW	69,348	74,587	75,925	76,440	76,563	14486
i	Rosenheim	CityCR	BY	53,155	58,920	59,310	60,226	61,512	3722
i	Rostock	CityCR	MV	249,349	227,535	198,964	199,288	204,260	18126
i	Rüsselsheim {Russelsheim}	City	HE	58,530	60,287	59,551	59,271	61,074	5829
i	Saarbrücken {Saarbrucken}	City	SL	188,702	187,032	182,858	178,914	176,135	16709
i	Salzgitter	CityCR	NI	111,069	117,713	111,696	107,726	101,750	22391
i	Sankt Augustin	City	NW	49,396	55,065	55,539	56,110	55,810	3422
i	Schwäbisch Gmünd {Schwabisch Gmund}	City	BW	56,754	63,734	61,873	61,350	59,749	11378
i	Schweinfurt	CityCR	BY	51,962	55,722	54,568	54,273	53,247	3570
i	Schwerin	CityCR	MV	128,328	114,688	99,978	96,656	95,300	13053
i	Siegen	City	NW	106,384	111,398	108,397	106,293	103,370	11469
i	Sindelfingen	City	BW	56,861	59,435	60,878	60,843	60,287	5085
i	Solingen	CityCR	NW	159,103	165,735	165,032	163,581	159,699	8954
i	Speyer	CityCR	RP	44,034	49,664	49,956	50,501	50,036	4259
i	Stolberg (Rheinland)	City	NW	55,747	58,203	58,718	58,577	57,273	9850
i	Stralsund	CityCR	MV	75,857	65,977	59,970	58,708	57,862	3907
i	Stuttgart	CityCR	BW	551,904	585,604	587,152	592,569	613,392	20735
i	Trier	CityCR	RP	94,118	99,428	100,024	99,843	105,675	11713
i	Troisdorf	City	NW	60,079	68,778	73,282	74,760	75,608	6220
i	Tübingen {Tubingen}	City	BW	71,701	81,769	82,444	83,496	89,011	10812
i	Ulm	CityCR	BW	103,494	115,721	118,347	120,625	123,672	11869
i	Unna	City	NW	56,499	66,475	70,117	68,264	66,202	8853
i	Velbert	City	NW	87,366	89,786	89,823	87,378	83,563	7491
i	Viersen	City	NW	76,445	77,338	77,259	76,330	75,291	9108
i	Villingen-Schwenningen	City	BW	75,861	80,734	81,691	81,778	80,990	16548
i	Waiblingen	City	BW	45,603	50,333	52,536	52,856	53,288	4276
i	Weimar	CityCR	TH	...	62,122	63,522	64,594	65,542	8419
i	Wesel	City	NW	57,507	61,609	62,151	61,711	60,625	12253
i	Wetzlar	City	HE	50,211	53,922	52,657	52,473	51,521	7567
i	Wiesbaden	CityCR	HE	251,871	267,122	271,076	274,611	278,919	20393
i	Wilhelmshaven	CityCR	NI	90,982	90,667	84,994	83,552	81,020	10691
i	Willich	City	NW	40,303	45,932	50,853	51,939	51,846	6777
i	Witten	City	NW	102,902	104,754	103,158	100,793	97,819	7237
i	Wolfenbüttel {Wolfenbuttel}	City	NI	50,729	53,686	54,517	54,461	53,353	7851
i	Wolfsburg	CityCR	NI	124,896	126,331	121,887	121,199	122,583	20405
i	Worms	City	RP	73,635	80,014	80,625	81,545	81,967	10873
i	Wuppertal	CityCR	NW	365,662	381,884	364,784	359,237	349,470	16839
i	Würzburg {Wurzburg}	CityCR	BY	123,378	127,295	129,915	133,906	133,808	8763
i	Zwickau	City	SN	130,455	110,780	101,726	97,832	93,128	10255

(1987) Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis für die BR Deutschland, Ausgabe 1987; für Ostdeutschland sind Schätzungen zum 31.12.1986 aus dem Statistischen Jahrbuch der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1987 angegeben.
(1995) Amtliche Schlüsselnummern und Bevölkerungsdaten der Gemeinden und Verwaltungsbezirke in der BR Deutschland, Ausgabe 1995.
(2001) (2005) (2011) Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (web).
Gebietsstand / boundaries of: 2012-09-30.