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Federal States (Bundesländer)

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

Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	Area A (km²)	Population Estimate (E) 1990-12-31	Population Estimate (E) 2001-12-31	Population Census (C) 2011-05-09	Population Estimate (E) 2021-12-31
Germany	DEU	Fed Rep	Berlin	357,592	79,753,227	82,440,309	80,219,695	83,237,124
Baden-Württemberg	BW	BL	Stuttgart	35,748	9,822,027	10,600,906	10,486,660	11,124,642	3574800	→
Bayern [Bavaria]	BY	BL	München	70,541	11,448,823	12,329,714	12,397,614	13,176,989	7054100	→
Berlin	BE	BL	Berlin	891	3,433,695	3,388,434	3,292,365	3,677,472	89100	→
Brandenburg	BB	BL	Potsdam	29,654	2,589,504	2,593,040	2,455,780	2,537,868	2965400	→
Bremen	HB	BL	Bremen	419	681,665	659,651	650,863	676,463	41900	→
Hamburg	HH	BL	Hamburg	755	1,652,363	1,726,363	1,706,696	1,853,935	75500	→
Hessen [Hesse]	HE	BL	Wiesbaden	21,116	5,763,310	6,077,826	5,971,816	6,295,017	2111600	→
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]	MV	BL	Schwerin	23,294	1,906,710	1,759,877	1,609,982	1,611,160	2329400	→
Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony]	NI	BL	Hannover	47,710	7,393,302	7,956,416	7,777,992	8,027,031	4771000	→
Nordrhein-Westfalen [North Rhine-Westphalia]	NW	BL	Düsseldorf	34,112	17,349,651	18,052,092	17,538,251	17,924,591	3411200	→
Rheinland-Pfalz [Rhineland-Palatinate]	RP	BL	Mainz	19,858	3,763,510	4,049,066	3,989,808	4,106,485	1985800	→
Saarland	SL	BL	Saarbrücken	2,572	1,072,963	1,066,470	999,623	982,348	257200	→
Sachsen [Saxony]	SN	BL	Dresden	18,450	4,775,873	4,384,192	4,056,799	4,043,002	1845000	→
Sachsen-Anhalt [Saxony-Anhalt]	ST	BL	Magdeburg	20,464	2,873,957	2,580,626	2,287,040	2,169,253	2046400	→
Schleswig-Holstein	SH	BL	Kiel	15,804	2,626,127	2,804,249	2,800,119	2,922,005	1580400	→
Thüringen [Thuringia]	TH	BL	Erfurt	16,202	2,599,747	2,411,387	2,188,589	2,108,863	1620200	→

Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (web).

Major Cities

	Name	Adm.	Population Estimate (E) 2021-12-31
1	Berlin	BE	3,677,472
2	Hamburg	HH	1,853,935
3	München	BY	1,487,708
4	Köln	NW	1,073,096
5	Frankfurt am Main	HE	759,224
6	Stuttgart	BW	626,275
7	Düsseldorf	NW	619,477
8	Leipzig	SN	601,866
9	Dortmund	NW	586,852
10	Essen	NW	579,432
11	Bremen	HB	563,290
12	Dresden	SN	555,351

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 2021.

Name	Status	Adm.	Population Estimate (E) 1990-12-31	Population Estimate (E) 2001-12-31	Population Census (C) 2011-05-09	Population Estimate (E) 2021-12-31	Area
Aachen [Aix-la-Chapelle]	City	NW	241,861	245,778	236,420	249,070	16085	→
Aalen	City	BW	64,781	66,559	66,318	68,351	14658	→
Ahlen	City	NW	54,169	55,481	52,280	52,627	12313	→
Arnsberg	City	NW	75,864	77,396	74,383	73,423	19372	→
Aschaffenburg	CityCR	BY	64,098	68,361	67,359	71,381	6245	→
Augsburg	CityCR	BY	256,877	257,836	267,767	296,478	14685	→
Baden-Baden	CityCR	BW	51,849	53,084	52,314	55,527	14019	→
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	City	HE	51,820	52,858	51,370	54,144	5114	→
Bad Kreuznach	City	RP	44,562	43,265	43,244	51,695	5556	→
Bad Salzuflen	City	NW	53,771	55,088	52,285	54,074	10005	→
Bamberg	CityCR	BY	70,521	69,396	70,635	77,749	5462	→
Bayreuth	CityCR	BY	72,345	74,519	70,808	73,909	6689	→
Bergheim	City	NW	58,146	63,591	58,922	61,807	9634	→
Bergisch Gladbach	City	NW	104,037	105,569	108,878	111,645	8309	→
Berlin	CityCR	BE	3,433,695	3,388,434	3,292,365	3,677,472	89112	→
Bielefeld	CityCR	NW	319,037	323,373	326,870	334,002	25883	→
Böblingen	City	BW	44,903	45,940	44,859	50,470	3904	→
Bocholt	City	NW	68,936	72,701	71,256	71,074	11940	→
Bochum	CityCR	NW	396,486	390,087	362,286	363,441	14566	→
Bonn	CityCR	NW	292,234	306,016	305,765	331,885	14106	→
Bottrop	CityCR	NW	118,936	120,780	117,311	117,311	10062	→
Brandenburg an der Havel	CityCR	BB	92,491	77,245	71,569	72,461	22972	→
Braunschweig [Brunswick]	CityCR	NI	258,833	245,516	242,537	248,823	19270	→
Bremen	CityCR	HB	551,219	540,950	542,707	563,290	31784	→
Bremerhaven	CityCR	HB	130,446	118,701	108,156	113,173	10153	→
Castrop-Rauxel	City	NW	79,037	78,471	74,629	73,078	5168	→
Celle	City	NI	72,260	71,949	69,001	69,279	17602	→
Chemnitz	CityCR	SN	315,277	255,798	240,253	243,105	22103	→
Cottbus (Chóśebuz)	CityCR	BB	134,246	111,125	99,984	98,359	16562	→
Darmstadt	CityCR	HE	138,920	138,457	143,499	159,631	12207	→
Delmenhorst	CityCR	NI	75,154	76,284	73,322	77,522	6245	→
Dessau-Roßlau	CityCR	ST	114,130	97,627	86,030	78,731	24500	→
Detmold	City	NW	70,074	73,771	73,743	73,969	12939	→
Dinslaken	City	NW	65,313	71,005	67,853	67,114	4766	→
Dormagen	City	NW	58,260	63,295	62,208	64,553	8550	→
Dorsten	City	NW	78,035	81,293	76,860	74,551	17129	→
Dortmund	CityCR	NW	599,055	589,240	571,143	586,852	28071	→
Dresden	CityCR	SN	511,110	478,631	512,354	555,351	32849	→
Duisburg	CityCR	NW	535,447	512,030	488,468	495,152	23279	→
Düren	City	NW	86,508	92,292	88,789	91,814	8501	→
Düsseldorf [Dusseldorf]	CityCR	NW	575,794	570,765	586,291	619,477	21741	→
Elmshorn	City	SH	43,689	47,603	47,459	50,141	2136	→
Erfurt	CityCR	TH	224,461	200,126	200,868	213,227	26991	→
Erlangen	CityCR	BY	102,440	101,912	103,719	113,292	7696	→
Eschweiler	City	NW	54,675	55,257	54,671	55,784	7575	→
Essen	CityCR	NW	626,973	591,889	566,201	579,432	21034	→
Esslingen am Neckar	City	BW	91,685	90,905	86,885	92,640	4643	→
Euskirchen	City	NW	49,654	54,047	55,414	58,754	13949	→
Flensburg	CityCR	SH	86,977	84,480	82,258	91,113	5673	→
Frankfurt (Oder)	CityCR	BB	86,131	70,308	59,140	56,679	14785	→
Frankfurt am Main	CityCR	HE	644,865	641,076	667,925	759,224	24831	→
Frechen	City	NW	44,360	47,382	49,657	52,155	4506	→
Freiburg im Breisgau	CityCR	BW	191,029	208,294	209,628	231,848	15304	→
Friedrichshafen	City	BW	54,129	57,538	56,937	61,561	6993	→
Fulda	City	HE	56,289	62,819	64,414	68,462	10405	→
Fürth	CityCR	BY	103,362	111,257	115,613	129,122	6335	→
Garbsen	City	NI	60,776	63,271	59,499	60,711	7950	→
Gelsenkirchen	CityCR	NW	293,714	276,740	258,766	260,126	10494	→
Gera	CityCR	TH	134,116	109,926	96,067	91,368	15218	→
Gießen	City	HE	74,497	73,295	74,776	91,255	7261	→
Gladbeck	City	NW	80,267	77,460	73,974	75,343	3596	→
Göppingen	City	BW	54,957	57,536	55,037	58,061	5921	→
Görlitz	City	SN	75,991	60,264	54,441	55,519	6753	→
Goslar	City	NI	57,608	55,646	51,261	50,010	16388	→
Göttingen	City	NI	121,831	123,822	115,843	116,557	11702	→
Greifswald	City	MV	66,251	53,533	55,447	59,332	5081	→
Grevenbroich	City	NW	60,835	65,039	61,741	63,922	10242	→
Gummersbach	City	NW	50,965	53,355	49,951	51,126	9541	→
Gütersloh	City	NW	86,807	95,459	94,172	101,158	11202	→
Hagen	CityCR	NW	214,449	202,060	187,944	188,713	16045	→
Halle (Saale)	CityCR	ST	310,234	243,045	229,153	238,061	13501	→
Hamburg	CityCR	HH	1,652,363	1,726,363	1,706,696	1,853,935	75509	→
Hameln	City	NI	58,539	59,052	56,756	57,394	10253	→
Hamm	CityCR	NW	179,639	183,805	176,037	179,238	22642	→
Hanau	City	HE	86,913	88,801	86,803	98,502	7647	→
Hannover [Hanover]	City	NI	513,010	516,415	506,416	535,932	20430	→
Hattingen	City	NW	58,241	58,023	54,253	54,061	7166	→
Heidelberg	CityCR	BW	136,796	141,509	146,751	159,245	10883	→
Heilbronn	CityCR	BW	115,843	120,163	116,059	125,613	9989	→
Herford	City	NW	63,893	65,097	65,213	66,551	7915	→
Herne	CityCR	NW	178,132	174,018	155,160	156,621	5142	→
Herten	City	NW	69,245	66,495	61,505	61,910	3733	→
Hilden	City	NW	54,782	56,615	54,390	55,182	2595	→
Hildesheim	City	NI	105,291	103,717	99,554	100,319	9229	→
Hürth	City	NW	50,808	54,095	55,082	60,034	5122	→
Ibbenbüren	City	NW	44,643	49,485	50,569	51,888	10887	→
Ingolstadt	CityCR	BY	105,489	117,311	124,927	138,016	13335	→
Iserlohn	City	NW	96,314	98,865	94,630	91,873	12549	→
Jena	CityCR	TH	105,610	101,157	105,739	110,502	11477	→
Kaiserslautern	CityCR	RP	99,351	99,794	96,340	99,292	13970	→
Karlsruhe	CityCR	BW	275,061	279,578	289,173	306,502	17342	→
Kassel	CityCR	HE	194,268	194,748	190,765	200,406	10679	→
Kempten (Allgäu)	CityCR	BY	61,906	61,505	64,078	69,053	6328	→
Kerpen	City	NW	57,337	63,652	63,273	66,294	11396	→
Kiel	CityCR	SH	245,567	232,242	235,782	246,243	11865	→
Kleve	City	NW	45,963	49,031	47,438	52,470	9776	→
Koblenz	CityCR	RP	108,733	107,730	107,825	113,638	10525	→
Köln [Cologne]	CityCR	NW	953,551	967,940	1,005,775	1,073,096	40501	→
Konstanz	City	BW	75,089	79,240	77,796	84,736	5412	→
Krefeld	CityCR	NW	244,020	239,559	222,247	227,050	13778	→
Landshut	CityCR	BY	59,066	59,513	63,544	73,150	6583	→
Langenfeld (Rheinland)	City	NW	53,455	58,757	56,829	59,223	4115	→
Langenhagen	City	NI	47,432	49,506	50,821	54,712	7197	→
Leipzig	CityCR	SN	556,754	493,052	502,979	601,866	29780	→
Leverkusen	CityCR	NW	160,919	160,829	158,984	163,851	7887	→
Lingen (Ems)	City	NI	49,137	51,362	51,821	55,599	17619	→
Lippstadt	City	NW	62,345	67,231	65,886	68,007	11368	→
Lübeck	CityCR	SH	214,758	213,496	210,305	216,277	21419	→
Lüdenscheid	City	NW	79,401	80,509	73,762	71,230	8702	→
Ludwigsburg	City	BW	82,343	87,502	86,139	93,117	4334	→
Ludwigshafen am Rhein	CityCR	RP	162,173	162,458	157,584	172,145	7743	→
Lüneburg	City	NI	61,870	68,234	69,905	75,599	7050	→
Lünen	City	NW	87,845	92,005	86,010	85,721	5939	→
Magdeburg	CityCR	ST	280,536	229,755	228,144	236,188	20103	→
Mainz	CityCR	RP	179,486	185,293	200,344	217,556	9773	→
Mannheim	CityCR	BW	310,411	308,385	290,117	311,831	14497	→
Marburg	City	HE	74,146	77,556	71,683	76,571	12391	→
Marl	City	NW	91,467	92,628	84,782	83,697	8775	→
Meerbusch	City	NW	52,104	55,172	54,313	56,855	6440	→
Menden (Sauerland)	City	NW	56,527	59,183	54,495	52,096	8610	→
Minden	City	NW	78,145	82,898	80,121	81,857	10112	→
Moers	City	NW	104,595	107,421	104,009	103,725	6768	→
Mönchengladbach	CityCR	NW	259,436	262,963	255,188	261,001	17047	→
Mülheim an der Ruhr	CityCR	NW	177,681	172,332	166,865	170,739	9128	→
München [Munich]	CityCR	BY	1,229,026	1,227,958	1,348,335	1,487,708	31070	→
Münster	CityCR	NW	259,438	267,197	289,576	317,713	30328	→
Neubrandenburg	City	MV	89,284	71,723	64,111	63,043	8612	→
Neumünster	CityCR	SH	80,743	79,646	77,249	79,496	7166	→
Neuss	City	NW	147,019	150,957	150,568	152,731	9952	→
Neustadt an der Weinstraße	CityCR	RP	51,988	53,822	52,164	53,491	11709	→
Neu-Ulm	City	BY	46,264	50,709	52,706	59,814	8095	→
Neuwied	City	RP	62,075	67,011	64,144	65,137	8650	→
Norderstedt	City	SH	68,450	72,016	73,913	80,420	5810	→
Nordhorn	City	NI	49,359	52,479	52,029	54,162	14987	→
Nürnberg [Nuremberg]	CityCR	BY	493,692	491,307	486,314	510,632	18644	→
Oberhausen	CityCR	NW	223,840	221,619	210,216	208,752	7709	→
Offenbach am Main	CityCR	HE	114,992	118,429	113,443	131,295	4488	→
Offenburg	City	BW	52,964	58,280	57,228	60,857	7837	→
Oldenburg (Oldenburg)	CityCR	NI	143,131	155,908	157,267	170,389	10309	→
Osnabrück	CityCR	NI	163,168	164,195	153,699	165,034	11980	→
Paderborn	City	NW	120,680	140,869	142,365	152,531	17959	→
Passau	CityCR	BY	50,328	50,669	48,649	53,093	6956	→
Peine	City	NI	46,654	49,499	48,582	50,461	11984	→
Pforzheim	CityCR	BW	112,944	118,002	114,411	125,529	9799	→
Plauen	City	SN	76,677	71,155	64,468	63,372	10211	→
Potsdam	CityCR	BB	147,279	141,907	156,021	183,154	18824	→
Pulheim	City	NW	49,353	53,441	52,929	54,805	7215	→
Rastatt	City	BW	42,376	46,264	46,648	50,441	5898	→
Ratingen	City	NW	91,007	91,793	86,967	86,424	8874	→
Ravensburg	City	BW	45,650	47,974	48,393	50,928	9205	→
Recklinghausen	City	NW	125,060	124,587	115,958	110,714	6650	→
Regensburg	CityCR	BY	121,691	127,198	135,403	153,542	8086	→
Remscheid	CityCR	NW	123,155	118,753	110,708	111,770	7452	→
Reutlingen	City	BW	103,687	111,338	109,799	116,456	8704	→
Rheine	City	NW	70,452	75,925	72,749	76,948	14500	→
Rosenheim	CityCR	BY	56,340	59,310	59,329	63,508	3722	→
Rostock	CityCR	MV	248,088	198,964	200,265	208,400	18136	→
Rüsselsheim am Main	City	HE	59,430	59,551	58,765	66,125	5829	→
Saarbrücken	City	SL	191,694	182,858	175,853	179,634	16752	→
Salzgitter	CityCR	NI	114,355	111,696	98,895	103,694	22449	→
Sankt Augustin	City	NW	51,886	55,539	53,850	55,563	3422	→
Schwäbisch Gmünd	City	BW	60,081	61,873	58,105	61,333	11381	→
Schweinfurt	CityCR	BY	54,483	54,568	52,143	53,585	3570	→
Schwerin	CityCR	MV	127,447	99,978	91,293	95,740	13052	→
Siegen	City	NW	109,174	108,397	99,187	101,516	11469	→
Sindelfingen	City	BW	58,805	60,878	60,534	64,151	5083	→
Solingen	CityCR	NW	165,401	165,032	155,265	158,957	8954	→
Speyer	CityCR	RP	46,553	49,956	49,540	50,565	4271	→
Stolberg (Rhld.)	City	NW	57,231	58,718	56,206	56,103	9848	→
Stralsund	City	MV	72,780	59,970	56,729	59,171	5459	→
Stuttgart	CityCR	BW	579,988	587,152	585,890	626,275	20733	→
Trier	CityCR	RP	97,835	100,024	105,671	110,570	11706	→
Troisdorf	City	NW	64,430	73,282	72,408	75,222	6200	→
Tübingen	City	BW	80,372	82,444	82,511	91,877	10806	→
Ulm	CityCR	BW	110,529	118,347	116,761	126,949	11868	→
Unna	City	NW	61,552	70,117	59,149	58,911	8856	→
Velbert	City	NW	89,253	89,823	81,303	81,593	7490	→
Viersen	City	NW	77,453	77,259	74,941	77,523	9110	→
Villingen-Schwenningen	City	BW	78,218	81,691	80,123	86,475	16553	→
Waiblingen	City	BW	48,387	52,536	51,552	55,526	4275	→
Weimar	CityCR	TH	64,246	63,522	62,764	65,138	8448	→
Wesel	City	NW	59,631	62,151	60,335	60,688	12256	→
Wetzlar	City	HE	51,737	52,657	50,826	52,969	7565	→
Wiesbaden	CityCR	HE	260,301	271,076	269,121	278,950	20387	→
Wilhelmshaven	CityCR	NI	90,561	84,994	77,451	75,027	10711	→
Willich	City	NW	42,416	50,853	50,708	50,133	6780	→
Witten	City	NW	105,403	103,158	96,382	95,107	7240	→
Wolfenbüttel	City	NI	52,032	54,517	51,756	51,986	7873	→
Wolfsburg	CityCR	NI	128,510	121,887	119,984	123,949	20462	→
Worms	CityCR	RP	76,503	80,625	79,207	83,850	10873	→
Wuppertal	CityCR	NW	383,660	364,784	342,661	354,572	16839	→
Würzburg	CityCR	BY	127,777	129,915	124,297	126,933	8760	→
Zwickau	City	SN	122,979	101,726	93,081	86,592	10258	→

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