Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany): Districts, Major Cities & Communes

	Name	Abbr.	Status	Adm.	Capital	A (km²)	C 1987-05-25	E 1995-12-31	E 2001-12-31	E 2005-12-31	E 2008-12-31
<	Arnsberg		Dist	NW	Arnsberg	8,003	3,605,066	3,827,480	3,803,327	3,760,454	3,699,748
<	Detmold		Dist	NW	Detmold	6,520	1,793,359	2,012,908	2,063,244	2,069,758	2,050,638
<	Düsseldorf {Dusseldorf}		Dist	NW	Düsseldorf	5,291	5,068,126	5,290,584	5,255,328	5,226,648	5,191,042
<	Köln {Koln}		Dist	NW	Köln	7,365	3,856,102	4,188,583	4,309,953	4,378,622	4,386,271
<	Münster {Munster}		Dist	NW	Münster	6,909	2,389,192	2,573,490	2,620,240	2,622,623	2,605,365
<	Nordrhein-Westfalen [North Rhine-Westphalia]	NW	FSt		Düsseldorf	34,088	16,711,845	17,893,045	18,052,092	18,058,105	17,933,064
	Germany	DEU			Berlin	357,112	77,718,000	81,817,499	82,440,309	82,437,995	82,002,356

	Name	C E 2008-12-31
1	Köln	995,420
2	Dortmund	584,412
3	Düsseldorf	584,217
4	Essen	579,759
5	Duisburg	494,048
6	Bochum	378,596
7	Wuppertal	353,308
8	Bielefeld	323,615
9	Bonn	317,949
10	Münster	273,875

Cities & Communes

	Name	Status	C C 1987-05-25	C E 1995-12-31	C E 2001-12-31	C E 2005-12-31	C E 2008-12-31
<	Aachen [Aix-la-Chapelle]	CityCR	229,740	247,923	245,778	258,208	259,269
<	Ahaus	City	29,850	34,708	37,533	38,402	38,821
<	Ahlen	City	52,657	55,785	55,481	55,104	53,877
<	Alfter	Com	16,389	19,351	21,350	22,569	22,807
<	Alsdorf	City	46,454	46,147	46,344	46,472	45,953
<	Altena	City	23,198	24,026	21,831	20,444	19,252
<	Arnsberg	City	74,091	78,972	77,396	76,427	75,288
<	Ascheberg	Com	12,381	13,965	14,923	15,100	14,945
<	Attendorn	City	21,570	23,888	24,688	24,814	24,839
<	Bad Berleburg	City	20,170	21,289	21,135	20,593	20,083
<	Bad Driburg	City	16,582	19,122	19,608	19,502	19,281
<	Bad Honnef	City	21,647	24,462	25,038	25,241	24,915
<	Bad Laasphe	City	14,713	15,574	15,395	15,073	14,687
<	Bad Lippspringe	City	11,891	14,566	14,835	15,292	15,126
<	Bad Münstereifel {Bad Munstereifel}	City	15,230	17,718	18,560	19,003	18,826
<	Bad Oeynhausen	City	44,036	49,014	49,850	49,221	48,867
<	Bad Salzuflen	City	50,588	55,029	55,088	54,673	54,078
<	Baesweiler	City	23,673	25,707	27,485	28,058	28,169
<	Beckum	City	35,877	38,166	38,018	37,472	36,965
<	Bedburg	City	20,634	23,219	24,457	24,937	24,879
<	Bergheim	City	54,545	60,610	63,591	63,015	62,100
<	Bergisch Gladbach	City	100,589	105,478	105,569	105,761	105,901
<	Bergkamen	City	47,660	51,838	52,955	52,225	51,328
<	Bergneustadt	City	17,949	20,772	20,809	20,506	20,000
<	Beverungen	City	14,791	15,703	15,506	14,923	14,447
<	Bielefeld	CityCR	305,566	324,066	323,373	326,925	323,615
<	Blomberg	City	14,338	16,786	17,560	17,043	16,497
<	Bocholt	City	67,028	70,424	72,701	73,790	73,403
<	Bochum	CityCR	386,271	400,395	390,087	385,626	378,596
<	Bönen {Bonen}	Com	18,002	18,817	19,349	19,181	18,717
<	Bonn	CityCR	276,653	291,431	306,016	312,818	317,949
<	Borken	City	34,228	38,675	40,582	41,028	41,177
<	Bornheim	City	34,211	40,180	46,304	48,355	48,498
<	Bottrop	CityCR	114,640	120,642	120,780	119,356	117,756
<	Brakel	City	14,893	17,493	17,840	17,581	17,184
<	Brilon	City	24,218	27,258	27,320	27,112	26,689
<	Brüggen {Bruggen}	Com	13,113	14,929	15,877	16,211	16,121
<	Brühl {Bruhl}	City	40,743	43,653	43,850	44,349	44,491
<	Bünde {Bunde}	City	39,083	43,186	44,749	45,114	44,675
<	Burbach	Com	13,405	14,807	15,076	14,872	14,641
<	Büren {Buren}	City	17,473	21,619	22,194	22,152	21,578
<	Burscheid	City	16,334	18,289	19,293	19,122	18,727
<	Castrop-Rauxel	City	77,081	79,160	78,471	77,619	76,277
<	Coesfeld	City	31,788	34,747	36,264	36,691	36,558
<	Datteln	City	36,504	37,712	37,210	36,571	35,852
<	Delbrück {Delbruck}	City	22,645	27,700	29,429	30,050	30,083
<	Detmold	City	65,502	73,343	73,771	73,508	73,368
<	Dinslaken	City	62,458	69,148	71,005	70,189	69,731
<	Dormagen	City	54,790	61,155	63,295	63,466	63,139
<	Dorsten	City	73,744	80,735	81,293	79,639	77,975
<	Dortmund	CityCR	584,089	598,840	589,240	588,168	584,412
<	Drensteinfurt	City	11,603	13,298	14,675	15,227	15,342
<	Duisburg	CityCR	525,378	535,250	512,030	501,564	494,048
<	Dülmen {Dulmen}	City	38,851	44,277	46,923	47,391	47,058
<	Düren {Duren}	City	82,857	90,274	92,292	93,656	92,904
<	Düsseldorf [Dusseldorf] {Dusseldorf}	CityCR	563,531	571,030	570,765	574,514	584,217
<	Eitorf	Com	15,591	18,031	19,599	19,691	19,615
<	Elsdorf	Com	18,605	21,343	21,740	21,674	21,306
<	Emmerich	City	27,924	29,285	29,005	29,520	29,752
<	Emsdetten	City	31,007	33,665	35,235	35,499	35,759
<	Engelskirchen	Com	18,380	20,442	20,829	20,569	20,164
<	Enger	City	16,291	18,925	20,007	19,989	20,076
<	Ennepetal	City	33,598	34,224	33,559	32,234	31,111
<	Ennigerloh	City	19,192	20,552	20,786	20,501	20,178
<	Erftstadt	City	43,939	48,717	50,998	51,122	50,714
<	Erkelenz	City	35,992	42,281	43,364	44,625	44,606
<	Erkrath	City	44,958	49,572	48,547	47,432	46,340
<	Erwitte	City	13,410	14,982	15,725	15,915	15,801
<	Eschweiler	City	53,058	56,171	55,257	55,691	55,533
<	Espelkamp	City	22,049	27,004	26,883	26,126	25,407
<	Essen	CityCR	623,427	614,861	591,889	585,430	579,759
<	Euskirchen	City	47,050	52,205	54,047	55,110	55,611
<	Finnentrop	Com	16,734	18,299	18,562	18,400	17,945
<	Frechen	City	42,348	45,583	47,382	48,965	49,824
<	Freudenberg	City	16,438	18,094	18,315	18,562	18,556
<	Fröndenberg {Frondenberg}	City	20,429	22,145	23,054	22,903	22,266
<	Geilenkirchen	City	21,393	26,549	28,137	28,468	28,110
<	Geldern	City	28,147	31,709	33,232	34,035	33,709
<	Gelsenkirchen	CityCR	287,508	291,164	276,740	268,102	262,063
<	Gescher	City	14,619	16,095	16,932	17,146	17,163
<	Geseke	City	16,958	19,170	20,219	20,640	20,810
<	Gevelsberg	City	32,456	33,769	33,552	32,719	31,952
<	Gladbeck	City	78,343	79,605	77,460	76,861	75,811
<	Goch	City	29,282	31,186	33,033	33,948	34,043
<	Grefrath	Com	13,848	15,447	16,040	15,929	15,800
<	Greven	City	29,512	33,216	34,507	35,427	35,761
<	Grevenbroich	City	58,611	63,604	65,039	64,372	64,197
<	Gronau (Westfalen)	City	39,318	43,529	45,290	46,373	46,645
<	Gummersbach	City	48,250	53,149	53,355	53,048	52,130
<	Gütersloh {Gutersloh}	City	81,804	92,842	95,459	96,145	96,343
<	Haan	City	28,489	29,888	29,607	29,325	29,149
<	Hagen	CityCR	209,363	212,003	202,060	196,934	192,177
<	Halle (Westf.)	City	18,161	19,502	20,728	21,283	21,066
<	Haltern	City	32,758	35,587	36,956	37,922	38,029
<	Halver	City	15,322	17,168	17,627	17,480	17,047
<	Hamm	CityCR	171,170	183,408	183,805	184,239	182,459
<	Hamminkeln	Com	23,285	26,480	27,209	27,478	27,780
<	Harsewinkel	City	18,741	22,616	23,703	24,251	24,155
<	Hattingen	City	55,880	58,650	58,023	56,979	56,119
<	Heiligenhaus	City	28,851	29,487	28,402	27,750	26,963
<	Heinsberg	City	36,109	39,852	41,483	41,606	41,179
<	Hemer	City	32,914	35,934	37,355	37,932	37,440
<	Hennef (Sieg)	City	29,968	38,115	43,534	45,493	45,669
<	Herdecke	City	25,238	26,278	26,001	25,538	25,048
<	Herford	City	60,935	65,919	65,097	64,965	64,852
<	Herne	CityCR	174,238	179,897	174,018	170,992	166,924
<	Herten	City	67,806	69,183	66,495	64,807	63,133
<	Herzebrock-Clarholz	Com	12,626	14,898	15,944	16,175	16,142
<	Herzogenrath	City	43,094	45,935	46,932	47,295	47,187
<	Hiddenhausen	Com	19,166	20,474	21,071	20,659	20,187
<	Hilchenbach	City	15,439	16,571	16,506	16,320	15,920
<	Hilden	City	53,262	55,086	56,615	56,545	55,961
<	Hille	Com	14,256	15,857	16,622	16,554	16,359
<	Holzwickede	Com	15,878	17,414	17,739	17,571	17,283
<	Horn-Bad Meinberg	City	16,318	18,664	18,696	18,507	18,006
<	Hörstel {Horstel}	City	15,305	17,401	19,602	19,865	19,905
<	Hövelhof {Hovelhof}	Com	12,599	15,167	15,872	16,020	15,938
<	Höxter {Hoxter}	City	31,972	33,560	32,998	32,591	31,628
<	Hückelhoven {Huckelhoven}	City	33,672	36,756	39,308	39,656	39,539
<	Hückeswagen {Huckeswagen}	City	14,759	16,016	16,540	16,435	16,041
<	Hürth {Hurth}	City	48,376	52,351	54,095	55,169	56,983
<	Ibbenbüren {Ibbenburen}	City	43,243	47,421	49,485	51,010	51,581
<	Iserlohn	City	92,183	99,341	98,865	97,285	95,598
<	Jüchen {Juchen}	Com	20,509	22,216	22,569	22,793	22,732
<	Jülich {Julich}	City	30,367	32,061	33,940	33,811	33,342
<	Kaarst	City	39,208	41,788	42,379	42,538	41,883
<	Kalletal	Com	13,765	15,791	15,786	15,382	14,793
<	Kamen	City	44,002	46,977	46,348	45,767	45,103
<	Kamp-Lintfort	City	37,433	40,435	39,959	39,636	38,919
<	Kempen	City	31,789	36,093	36,085	36,323	36,187
<	Kerpen	City	53,608	61,998	63,652	64,348	64,746
<	Kevelaer	City	22,428	25,737	27,319	27,867	28,296
<	Kierspe	City	14,864	17,541	18,299	18,209	17,605
<	Kirchlengern	Com	14,238	15,589	16,335	16,533	16,291
<	Kleve	City	44,106	48,344	49,031	49,099	49,312
<	Köln [Cologne] {Koln}	CityCR	928,309	965,697	967,940	983,347	995,420
<	Königswinter {Konigswinter}	City	33,783	37,341	39,482	41,268	41,057
<	Korschenbroich	City	27,094	31,740	33,862	33,498	33,228
<	Krefeld	CityCR	232,261	249,606	239,559	237,701	236,333
<	Kreuzau	Com	14,870	16,989	18,234	18,203	17,868
<	Kreuztal	City	29,370	32,243	32,127	31,939	31,300
<	Kürten {Kurten}	Com	16,522	18,771	19,679	20,077	19,817
<	Lage	City	31,375	35,931	36,157	35,989	35,502
<	Langenfeld (Rheinland)	City	50,297	56,676	58,757	58,993	59,213
<	Leichlingen (Rheinland)	City	24,703	26,366	26,934	27,536	27,490
<	Lemgo	City	38,151	41,403	42,188	42,156	41,811
<	Lengerich	City	20,215	21,802	22,259	22,359	22,355
<	Lennestadt	City	25,901	27,650	28,046	27,831	27,392
<	Leopoldshöhe {Leopoldshohe}	Com	12,699	15,309	16,396	16,198	16,175
<	Leverkusen	CityCR	154,692	162,252	160,829	161,227	161,322
<	Lindlar	Com	18,115	20,804	22,517	22,659	22,328
<	Lippstadt	City	60,102	66,636	67,231	67,446	66,924
<	Lohmar	Com	25,294	29,509	30,936	31,235	31,198
<	Löhne {Lohne}	City	36,746	41,246	41,580	41,541	40,708
<	Lübbecke {Lubbecke}	City	22,191	25,301	25,937	26,261	25,996
<	Lüdenscheid {Ludenscheid}	City	74,635	81,837	80,509	78,688	76,589
<	Lüdinghausen {Ludinghausen}	City	19,036	21,569	23,333	24,097	24,183
<	Lünen {Lunen}	City	84,664	91,592	92,005	90,022	88,297
<	Marl	City	89,063	92,965	92,628	90,816	88,836
<	Marsberg	City	20,772	23,058	22,382	21,849	21,244
<	Mechernich	City	21,910	24,575	26,460	27,368	27,441
<	Meckenheim	City	20,868	24,558	25,440	25,142	24,500
<	Meerbusch	City	50,240	54,206	55,172	54,367	54,219
<	Meinerzhagen	City	18,318	21,554	22,031	21,752	21,289
<	Menden (Sauerland)	City	54,058	58,424	59,183	57,984	56,625
<	Meschede	City	31,110	32,590	32,645	32,186	31,566
<	Mettmann	City	37,220	38,812	39,125	39,670	39,560
<	Minden	City	75,031	82,971	82,898	83,118	82,809
<	Moers	City	100,872	107,095	107,421	107,547	106,645
<	Mönchengladbach {Monchengladbach}	CityCR	249,587	266,702	262,963	261,444	258,848
<	Monheim	City	39,985	43,811	43,685	43,705	43,308
<	Much	Com	11,309	13,883	14,889	15,095	15,037
<	Mülheim (an der Ruhr) {Mulheim}	CityCR	175,423	176,530	172,332	169,917	168,288
<	Münster {Munster}	CityCR	246,186	265,061	267,197	270,868	273,875
<	Netphen	Com	21,959	24,897	25,038	24,679	24,349
<	Nettetal	City	37,740	40,348	42,085	42,434	42,250
<	Neukirchen-Vluyn	City	25,386	27,571	28,566	28,650	27,831
<	Neunkirchen-Seelscheid	Com	15,566	18,508	20,328	21,000	20,769
<	Neuss	City	142,178	148,796	150,957	151,610	151,254
<	Niederkassel	City	28,243	31,201	35,077	36,516	37,205
<	Niederkrüchten {Niederkruchten}	Com	10,736	12,862	14,749	15,457	15,370
<	Nottuln	Com	14,457	17,823	19,599	20,270	20,145
<	Nümbrecht {Numbrecht}	Com	12,347	16,526	17,009	17,420	17,328
<	Oberhausen	CityCR	220,286	224,397	221,619	218,898	215,670
<	Ochtrup	City	16,873	18,176	18,977	19,380	19,396
<	Odenthal	Com	12,811	13,909	15,120	15,781	15,744
<	Oelde	City	27,033	28,847	29,406	29,393	29,582
<	Oer-Erkenschwick	City	27,607	30,302	30,516	30,397	30,303
<	Oerlinghausen	City	14,757	17,165	17,435	17,305	16,905
<	Olpe	City	22,710	24,605	25,371	25,664	25,613
<	Olsberg	City	14,464	16,267	16,233	15,803	15,393
<	Overath	Com	22,553	25,319	26,410	27,106	27,057
<	Paderborn	City	110,715	133,717	140,869	143,769	144,811
<	Petershagen	City	23,619	26,142	27,103	26,882	26,194
<	Plettenberg	City	27,726	29,519	28,959	28,003	27,026
<	Porta Westfalica	City	33,787	35,794	36,277	36,175	35,449
<	Pulheim	City	47,852	51,365	53,441	53,694	53,872
<	Radevormwald	City	22,579	24,353	24,668	23,970	23,108
<	Rahden	City	13,452	14,850	15,856	16,079	15,888
<	Ratingen	City	88,631	89,534	91,793	91,975	91,704
<	Recklinghausen	City	119,991	127,216	124,587	121,827	120,059
<	Rees	City	18,075	20,010	21,995	22,559	22,465
<	Reichshof	Com	15,368	18,385	19,885	20,174	19,840
<	Remscheid	CityCR	120,132	122,260	118,753	115,864	112,679
<	Rheda-Wiedenbrück {Rheda-Wiedenbruck}	City	36,822	42,155	45,235	46,440	46,951
<	Rhede	City	16,383	18,006	18,774	19,202	19,398
<	Rheinbach	City	22,161	24,733	25,986	26,533	26,924
<	Rheinberg	City	26,158	29,638	31,712	32,061	31,943
<	Rheine	City	69,348	74,587	75,925	76,440	76,472
<	Rietberg	City	22,782	26,435	28,214	28,790	28,828
<	Rösrath {Rosrath}	Com	21,783	24,286	26,613	27,121	27,021
<	Salzkotten	City	19,572	22,211	23,680	24,665	24,913
<	Sankt Augustin	City	49,396	55,065	55,539	56,110	55,624
<	Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock	Com	20,183	23,248	25,829	26,016	26,154
<	Schmallenberg	City	24,477	26,620	26,538	25,992	25,645
<	Schwalmtal	Com	14,551	17,116	19,370	19,279	19,198
<	Schwelm	City	29,527	30,729	30,351	29,858	29,248
<	Schwerte	City	48,344	50,734	50,534	49,730	48,797
<	Selm	City	23,895	26,214	27,389	27,472	27,247
<	Senden	Com	14,462	18,796	19,703	20,529	20,727
<	Siegburg	City	33,637	36,998	37,865	38,855	39,564
<	Siegen	City	106,384	111,398	108,397	106,293	104,419
<	Simmerath	Com	12,516	14,525	15,415	15,771	15,610
<	Soest	City	40,207	47,730	48,361	48,534	48,529
<	Solingen	CityCR	159,103	165,735	165,032	163,581	161,779
<	Spenge	City	14,043	15,601	15,796	15,490	15,180
<	Sprockhövel {Sprockhovel}	City	23,857	25,442	26,419	26,132	25,546
<	Stadtlohn	City	17,079	19,139	20,407	20,692	20,727
<	Steinfurt	City	30,067	33,268	34,052	34,560	34,266
<	Steinhagen	Com	16,486	18,591	19,745	19,902	19,936
<	Stolberg (Rheinland)	City	55,747	58,203	58,718	58,577	58,057
<	Straelen	City	12,265	14,511	15,337	15,580	15,655
<	Sundern (Sauerland)	City	25,824	29,368	29,864	29,543	29,061
<	Swisttal	Com	16,341	17,865	17,954	18,141	18,280
<	Telgte	City	16,555	18,472	19,370	19,528	19,190
<	Tönisvorst {Tonisvorst}	City	23,172	28,385	30,477	30,238	30,207
<	Troisdorf	City	60,079	68,778	73,282	74,760	75,006
<	Übach-Palenberg {Ubach-Palenberg}	City	22,933	23,849	25,049	25,405	24,968
<	Unna	City	56,499	66,475	70,117	68,264	67,342
<	Velbert	City	87,366	89,786	89,823	87,378	85,465
<	Verl	Com	18,507	21,626	23,768	24,754	24,908
<	Versmold	City	17,396	19,680	20,634	21,064	21,076
<	Viersen	City	76,445	77,338	77,259	76,330	75,700
<	Vlotho	City	18,780	20,520	20,544	20,035	19,634
<	Voerde (Niederrhein)	City	34,870	38,269	38,935	38,580	37,752
<	Vreden	City	18,607	20,745	21,931	22,587	22,775
<	Wachtberg	Com	16,563	18,716	19,162	19,926	20,117
<	Waldbröl {Waldbrol}	City	14,765	18,490	19,213	19,636	19,504
<	Waltrop	City	28,127	30,466	30,437	30,099	29,905
<	Warburg	City	21,887	24,178	24,218	24,294	23,726
<	Warendorf	City	33,476	36,991	38,988	38,717	38,268
<	Warstein	City	28,138	29,566	29,007	28,496	27,807
<	Wassenberg	City	12,229	14,280	16,044	16,841	17,060
<	Wegberg	City	24,784	26,989	28,800	29,580	29,361
<	Weilerswist	Com	13,722	15,314	16,337	16,378	16,341
<	Wenden	Com	15,995	18,604	19,658	19,820	20,056
<	Werdohl	City	20,856	22,227	21,265	20,177	19,303
<	Werl	City	27,067	30,533	31,819	32,198	31,976
<	Wermelskirchen	City	34,447	37,123	36,907	36,588	35,878
<	Werne	City	28,056	30,456	30,779	30,695	30,299
<	Wesel	City	57,507	61,609	62,151	61,711	61,203
<	Wesseling	City	29,101	33,517	35,224	35,589	35,146
<	Wetter (Ruhr)	City	28,160	29,331	29,675	29,011	28,445
<	Wiehl	City	21,651	25,367	26,455	26,511	25,953
<	Willich	City	40,303	45,932	50,853	51,939	51,856
<	Wilnsdorf	Com	19,874	21,630	21,618	21,405	21,042
<	Windeck	Com	17,666	19,892	21,048	21,152	20,670
<	Wipperfürth {Wipperfurth}	City	20,373	22,409	23,227	23,669	23,503
<	Witten	City	102,902	104,754	103,158	100,793	99,126
<	Wülfrath {Wulfrath}	City	20,690	22,046	22,669	22,199	21,530
<	Wuppertal	CityCR	365,662	381,884	364,784	359,237	353,308
<	Würselen {Wurselen}	City	33,499	35,758	36,731	37,231	37,839
<	Xanten	City	15,974	18,902	20,841	21,477	21,531
<	Zülpich {Zulpich}	City	16,943	18,878	19,674	20,105	20,092

(1987) Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis für die BR Deutschland, Ausgabe 1987.
(1995) Amtliche Schlüsselnummern und Bevölkerungsdaten der Gemeinden und Verwaltungsbezirke in der BR Deutschland, Ausgabe 1995.
(2001) (2005) (2008) Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland: Gemeindeverzeichnis (web).

GERMANY: Nordrhein-Westfalen

Contents

Districts

Principal Cities

Cities & Communes