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Almost 37 million people live in
Germany’s 300 largest cities
Towns and cities ranked 1 to 100

Germany is a country of thousands of medium-sized towns and cities. Only three cities, Berlin, Hamburg and München (Munich), are Millionenstädte - cities with a population of more than one million. Another nine German cities have a population of more than 500,000 people.

According to the Deutscher Städtetag (German Associations of Towns and Cities) some 51 million people – the equivalent of 63 per cent of Germany’s total population - live in the country’s 5,700 towns and cities. The population of Germany’s 300 largest cities amounts to almost 37 million or 45 per cent of all people living in the country.

The data for the City Mayors tables of Germany’s 300 largest cities was collected from a number of sources. Urs Enke acted as research consultant.

Largest German cities
German cities ranked 1 to 100 | German cities ranked 101 to 200 | German cities ranked 201 to 300 |

Rank	City	State	Population
1	Berlin	Berlin	3,275,000
2	Hamburg	Hamburg	1,686,100
3	München	Bavaria	1,185,400
4	Köln	Northrhine-Westfalia	965,300
5	Frankfurt	Hessen	648,000
6	Essen	Northrhine-Westfalia	588,800
7	Dortmund	Northrhine-Westfalia	587,600
8	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	581,100
9	Düsseldorf	Northrhine-Westfalia	568,900
10	Bremen	Bremen	527,900
11	Hannover	Lower Saxony	516,300
12	Duisburg	Northrhine-Westfalia	513,400
13	Nürnberg	Bavaria	486,700
14	Leipzig	Saxony	486,100
15	Dresden	Saxony	473,300
16	Bochum	Northrhine-Westfalia	388,100
17	Wuppertal	Northrhine-Westfalia	365,400
18	Bielefeld	Northrhine-Westfalia	320,900
19	Bonn	Northrhine-Westfalia	307,500
20	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	306,100
21	Karlsruhe	Baden-Württemberg	279,600
22	Gelsenkirchen	Northrhine-Westfalia	276,200
23	Wiesbaden	Hessen	269,200
24	Münster	Northrhine-Westfalia	265,900
25	Mönchengladbach	Northrhine-Westfalia	264,400
26	Chemnitz	Saxony	255,600
27	Augsburg	Bavaria	253,800
28	Braunschweig	Lower Saxony	243,700
29	Aachen	Northrhine-Westfalia	241,300
30	Krefeld	Northrhine-Westfalia	238,000
31	Halle	Saxony-Anhalt	237,400
32	Kiel	Schleswig-Holstein	229,900
33	Magdeburg	Saxony-Anhalt	224,100
34	Oberhausen	Northrhine-Westfalia	221,700
35	Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	213,400
36	Freiburg	Baden-Württemberg	206,300
37	Hagen	Northrhine-Westfalia	201,700
38	Erfurt	Thuringia	195,000
39	Kassel	Hessen	193,500
40	Rostock	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	192,100
41	Mainz	Rhineland-Palatinate	186,700
42	Hamm	Northrhine-Westfalia	180,300
43	Saarbrücken	Saarland	180,000
44	Herne	Northrhine-Westfalia	174,200
45	Mülheim	Northrhine-Westfalia	173,000
46	Solingen	Northrhine-Westfalia	164,500
47	Osnabrück	Lower Saxony	164,000
48	Ludwigshafen	Rhineland-Palatinate	162,000
49	Leverkusen	Northrhine-Westfalia	161,700
50	Oldenburg	Lower Saxony	157,600
51	Neuss	Northrhine-Westfalia	150,400
52	Paderborn	Northrhine-Westfalia	141,200
53	Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg	139,700
54	Darmstadt	Hessen	137,800
55	Potsdam	Brandenburg	128,700
56	Würzburg	Bavaria	127,200
57	Göttingen	Lower Saxony	127,100
58	Regensburg	Bavaria	125,400
59	Recklinghausen	Northrhine-Westfalia	124,500
60	Bottrop	Northrhine-Westfalia	122,100
61	Wolfsburg	Lower Saxony	119,300
62	Heilbronn	Baden-Württemberg	118,500
63	Ingolstadt	Bavaria	118,000
64	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	117,700
65	Remscheid	Northrhine-Westfalia	117,700
66	Pforzheim	Baden-Württemberg	117,100
67	Bremerhaven	Bremen	116,800
68	Offenbach	Hessen	115,500
69	Fürth	Bavaria	111,900
70	Reutlingen	Baden-Württemberg	111,400
71	Salzgitter	Lower Saxony	111,400
72	Siegen	Northrhine-Westfalia	108,900
73	Gera	Thuringia	108,800
74	Koblenz	Rhineland-Palatinate	108,800
75	Moers	Northrhine-Westfalia	106,600
76	Bergisch Gladbach	Northrhine-Westfalia	106,100
77	Cottbus	Brandenburg	105,000
78	Hildesheim	Lower Saxony	103,700
79	Witten	Northrhine-Westfalia	103,400
80	Zwickau	Saxony	100,900
81	Erlangen	Bavaria	100,100
82	Iserlohn	Northrhine-Westfalia	99,800
83	Trier	Rhineland-Palatinate	99,100
84	Kaiserslautern	Rhineland-Palatinate	98,800
85	Jena	Thuringia	97,500
86	Schwerin	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	97,400
87	Gütersloh	Northrhine-Westfalia	97,100
88	Marl	Northrhine-Westfalia	94,500
89	Lünen	Northrhine-Westfalia	91,700
90	Esslingen	Baden-Württemberg	91,000
91	Velbert	Northrhine-Westfalia	90,500
92	Ratingen	Northrhine-Westfalia	89,800
93	Düren	Northrhine-Westfalia	89,600
94	Ludwigsburg	Baden-Württemberg	88,000
95	Wilhelmshaven	Lower Saxony	87,800
96	Hanau	Hessen	86,400
97	Minden	Northrhine-Westfalia	84,400
98	Flensburg	Schleswig-Holstein	83,800
99	Dessau	Saxony-Anhalt	81,800
100	Villingen-Schwenningen	Baden-Württemberg	81,500

Almost 37 million people live in Germany’s 300 largest cities Towns and cities ranked 1 to 100

Almost 37 million people live in
Germany’s 300 largest cities
Towns and cities ranked 1 to 100