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

	Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	A (km²)	C 1987-05-25	E 1995-12-31	E 2001-12-31	E 2005-12-31	E 2008-12-31
<	Baden-Württemberg {Baden-Wurttemberg}	BW	FSt	Stuttgart	35,751	9,286,387	10,319,367	10,600,906	10,735,701	10,749,506
<	Bayern [Bavaria]	BY	FSt	München	70,552	10,902,643	11,993,484	12,329,714	12,468,726	12,519,728
<	Berlin	BE	FSt	Berlin	892	3,260,000	3,471,418	3,388,434	3,395,189	3,431,675
<	Brandenburg	BB	FSt	Potsdam	29,481	2,665,000	2,542,042	2,593,040	2,559,483	2,522,493
<	Bremen	HB	FSt	Bremen	404	660,084	679,757	659,651	663,467	661,866
<	Hamburg	HH	FSt	Hamburg	755	1,592,770	1,707,901	1,726,363	1,743,627	1,772,100
<	Hessen [Hesse]	HE	FSt	Wiesbaden	21,115	5,507,777	6,009,913	6,077,826	6,092,354	6,064,953
<	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [-Western Pomerania]	MV	FSt	Schwerin	23,186	1,971,000	1,823,084	1,759,877	1,707,266	1,664,356
<	Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony]	NI	FSt	Hannover	47,627	7,162,103	7,780,422	7,956,416	7,993,946	7,947,244
<	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
<	Rheinland-Pfalz [Rhineland-Palatinate]	RP	FSt	Mainz	19,854	3,630,823	3,977,919	4,049,066	4,058,843	4,028,351
<	Saarland	SL	FSt	Saarbrücken	2,569	1,055,660	1,084,370	1,066,470	1,050,293	1,030,324
<	Sachsen [Saxony]	SN	FSt	Dresden	18,419	5,032,000	4,566,603	4,384,192	4,273,754	4,192,801
<	Sachsen-Anhalt [Saxony-Anhalt]	ST	FSt	Magdeburg	20,448	3,008,000	2,738,928	2,580,626	2,469,716	2,381,872
<	Schleswig-Holstein	SH	FSt	Kiel	15,799	2,554,241	2,725,461	2,804,249	2,832,950	2,834,260
<	Thüringen [Thuringia] {Thuringen}	TH	FSt	Erfurt	16,172	2,718,000	2,503,785	2,411,387	2,334,575	2,267,763
	Germany	DEU		Berlin	357,112	77,718,000	81,817,499	82,440,309	82,437,995	82,002,356

	Name	Adm.	C E 2008-12-31
1	Berlin	BE	3,431,675
2	Hamburg	HH	1,772,100
3	München	BY	1,326,807
4	Köln	NW	995,420
5	Frankfurt	HE	664,838
6	Stuttgart	BW	600,068
7	Dortmund	NW	584,412
8	Düsseldorf	NW	584,217
9	Essen	NW	579,759
10	Bremen	HB	547,360
11	Hannover	NI	519,619
12	Leipzig	SN	515,469
13	Dresden	SN	512,234
14	Nürnberg	BY	503,638

Cities

	Name	Status	Adm.	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	NW	229,740	247,923	245,778	258,208	259,269
<	Aalen	City	BW	62,633	66,234	66,559	67,066	66,503
<	Ahlen	City	NW	52,657	55,785	55,481	55,104	53,877
<	Arnsberg	City	NW	74,091	78,972	77,396	76,427	75,288
<	Aschaffenburg	CityCR	BY	60,964	66,360	68,361	68,642	68,747
<	Augsburg	CityCR	BY	242,819	259,699	257,836	262,676	263,313
<	Baden-Baden	CityCR	BW	50,127	52,745	53,084	54,581	54,777
<	Bad Homburg (vor der Höhe)	City	HE	50,329	51,178	52,858	51,883	51,768
<	Bad Salzuflen	City	NW	50,588	55,029	55,088	54,673	54,078
<	Bamberg	CityCR	BY	69,100	69,652	69,396	70,081	69,989
<	Bayreuth	CityCR	BY	69,813	73,016	74,519	73,997	72,935
<	Bergheim	City	NW	54,545	60,610	63,591	63,015	62,100
<	Bergisch Gladbach	City	NW	100,589	105,478	105,569	105,761	105,901
<	Bergkamen	City	NW	47,660	51,838	52,955	52,225	51,328
<	Berlin	CityCR	BE	3,260,000	3,471,418	3,388,434	3,395,189	3,431,675
<	Bielefeld	CityCR	NW	305,566	324,066	323,373	326,925	323,615
<	Bocholt	City	NW	67,028	70,424	72,701	73,790	73,403
<	Bochum	CityCR	NW	386,271	400,395	390,087	385,626	378,596
<	Bonn	CityCR	NW	276,653	291,431	306,016	312,818	317,949
<	Bottrop	CityCR	NW	114,640	120,642	120,780	119,356	117,756
<	Brandenburg (Havel)	CityCR	BB	...	86,753	77,245	74,129	72,516
<	Braunschweig [Brunswick]	CityCR	NI	252,351	252,544	245,516	245,273	246,012
<	Bremen	CityCR	HB	533,455	549,357	540,950	546,852	547,360
<	Bremerhaven	CityCR	HB	126,629	130,400	118,701	116,615	114,506
<	Castrop-Rauxel	City	NW	77,081	79,160	78,471	77,619	76,277
<	Celle	City	NI	71,222	73,936	71,949	71,336	70,745
<	Chemnitz	CityCR	SN	335,983	288,268	255,798	246,587	243,880
<	Cottbus (Chóśebuz)	CityCR	BB	...	126,343	111,125	105,309	101,785
<	Cuxhaven	City	NI	56,049	55,229	53,168	52,095	51,249
<	Darmstadt	CityCR	HE	134,272	138,980	138,457	140,562	142,310
<	Delmenhorst	CityCR	NI	72,072	78,226	76,284	75,916	74,751
<	Dessau (-Roßlau)	CityCR	ST	...	107,200	97,435	92,339	88,693
<	Detmold	City	NW	65,502	73,343	73,771	73,508	73,368
<	Dinslaken	City	NW	62,458	69,148	71,005	70,189	69,731
<	Dormagen	City	NW	54,790	61,155	63,295	63,466	63,139
<	Dorsten	City	NW	73,744	80,735	81,293	79,639	77,975
<	Dortmund	CityCR	NW	584,089	598,840	589,240	588,168	584,412
<	Dresden	CityCR	SN	542,252	495,424	478,631	495,181	512,234
<	Duisburg	CityCR	NW	525,378	535,250	512,030	501,564	494,048
<	Düren {Duren}	City	NW	82,857	90,274	92,292	93,656	92,904
<	Düsseldorf [Dusseldorf] {Dusseldorf}	CityCR	NW	563,531	571,030	570,765	574,514	584,217
<	Emden	CityCR	NI	50,144	51,559	51,185	51,693	51,562
<	Erftstadt	City	NW	43,939	48,717	50,998	51,122	50,714
<	Erfurt	CityCR	TH	...	211,108	200,126	202,844	203,333
<	Erlangen	CityCR	BY	99,808	101,406	101,912	103,197	104,980
<	Eschweiler	City	NW	53,058	56,171	55,257	55,691	55,533
<	Essen	CityCR	NW	623,427	614,861	591,889	585,430	579,759
<	Esslingen (am Neckar)	City	BW	90,557	90,029	90,905	92,091	91,573
<	Euskirchen	City	NW	47,050	52,205	54,047	55,110	55,611
<	Flensburg	CityCR	SH	86,554	87,276	84,480	86,080	88,718
<	Frankfurt (am Main)	CityCR	HE	618,266	650,055	641,076	651,899	664,838
<	Frankfurt (Oder)	CityCR	BB	86,441	80,807	70,308	63,748	61,286
<	Freiburg (im Breisgau)	CityCR	BW	178,672	199,273	208,294	215,966	219,665
<	Friedrichshafen	City	BW	51,808	56,315	57,538	58,068	58,848
<	Fulda	City	HE	54,322	60,851	62,819	63,958	64,129
<	Fürth {Furth}	CityCR	BY	97,480	108,418	111,257	113,422	114,071
<	Garbsen	City	NI	58,081	62,681	63,271	63,123	62,000
<	Gelsenkirchen	CityCR	NW	287,508	291,164	276,740	268,102	262,063
<	Gera	CityCR	TH	...	123,555	109,926	103,948	100,643
<	Gießen	City	HE	69,824	73,889	73,295	73,690	75,140
<	Gladbeck	City	NW	78,343	79,605	77,460	76,861	75,811
<	Göppingen {Goppingen}	City	BW	52,151	58,086	57,536	57,771	57,336
<	Görlitz {Gorlitz}	City	SN	83,215	67,980	60,264	57,629	56,461
<	Göttingen {Gottingen}	City	NI	114,698	126,253	123,822	121,884	121,455
<	Greifswald	CityCR	MV	67,298	60,772	53,533	53,281	54,131
<	Grevenbroich	City	NW	58,611	63,604	65,039	64,372	64,197
<	Gummersbach	City	NW	48,250	53,149	53,355	53,048	52,130
<	Gütersloh {Gutersloh}	City	NW	81,804	92,842	95,459	96,145	96,343
<	Hagen	CityCR	NW	209,363	212,003	202,060	196,934	192,177
<	Halle (Saale)	CityCR	ST	329,625	282,784	243,045	237,198	233,013
<	Hamburg	CityCR	HH	1,592,770	1,707,901	1,726,363	1,743,627	1,772,100
<	Hameln	City	NI	58,181	58,781	59,052	58,739	58,267
<	Hamm	CityCR	NW	171,170	183,408	183,805	184,239	182,459
<	Hanau	City	HE	83,391	88,921	88,801	88,746	88,245
<	Hannover [Hanover]	City	NI	494,864	523,147	516,415	515,729	519,619
<	Hattingen	City	NW	55,880	58,650	58,023	56,979	56,119
<	Heidelberg	CityCR	BW	127,768	138,781	141,509	142,993	145,642
<	Heilbronn	CityCR	BW	110,970	121,509	120,163	121,613	122,098
<	Herford	City	NW	60,935	65,919	65,097	64,965	64,852
<	Herne	CityCR	NW	174,238	179,897	174,018	170,992	166,924
<	Herten	City	NW	67,806	69,183	66,495	64,807	63,133
<	Hilden	City	NW	53,262	55,086	56,615	56,545	55,961
<	Hildesheim	City	NI	103,449	106,101	103,717	102,575	103,288
<	Hürth {Hurth}	City	NW	48,376	52,351	54,095	55,169	56,983
<	Ibbenbüren {Ibbenburen}	City	NW	43,243	47,421	49,485	51,010	51,581
<	Ingolstadt	CityCR	BY	96,071	111,979	117,311	121,314	123,925
<	Iserlohn	City	NW	92,183	99,341	98,865	97,285	95,598
<	Jena	CityCR	TH	...	101,061	101,157	102,532	103,392
<	Kaiserslautern	CityCR	RP	97,326	102,002	99,794	98,372	97,436
<	Karlsruhe	CityCR	BW	260,591	275,690	279,578	285,263	290,736
<	Kassel	CityCR	HE	187,288	201,573	194,748	194,427	194,168
<	Kempten (Allgäu)	CityCR	BY	59,369	61,657	61,505	61,360	62,135
<	Kerpen	City	NW	53,608	61,998	63,652	64,348	64,746
<	Kiel	CityCR	SH	237,767	246,033	232,242	234,433	237,579
<	Koblenz	CityCR	RP	108,246	109,219	107,730	106,501	106,293
<	Köln [Cologne] {Koln}	CityCR	NW	928,309	965,697	967,940	983,347	995,420
<	Konstanz	City	BW	70,378	76,000	79,240	81,217	82,608
<	Krefeld	CityCR	NW	232,261	249,606	239,559	237,701	236,333
<	Landshut	CityCR	BY	56,446	59,219	59,513	61,368	62,606
<	Langenfeld (Rheinland)	City	NW	50,297	56,676	58,757	58,993	59,213
<	Langenhagen	City	NI	45,965	48,921	49,506	50,883	51,691
<	Leipzig	CityCR	SN	600,543	519,710	493,052	502,651	515,469
<	Leverkusen	CityCR	NW	154,692	162,252	160,829	161,227	161,322
<	Lingen (Ems)	City	NI	47,489	52,270	51,362	51,317	51,625
<	Lippstadt	City	NW	60,102	66,636	67,231	67,446	66,924
<	Lübeck {Lubeck}	CityCR	SH	210,497	216,986	213,496	211,825	210,892
<	Lüdenscheid {Ludenscheid}	City	NW	74,635	81,837	80,509	78,688	76,589
<	Ludwigsburg	City	BW	78,884	86,810	87,502	87,673	87,207
<	Ludwigshafen (am Rhein)	CityCR	RP	156,601	167,369	162,458	163,343	163,467
<	Lüneburg {Luneburg}	City	NI	59,543	64,558	68,234	71,842	72,492
<	Lünen {Lunen}	City	NW	84,664	91,592	92,005	90,022	88,297
<	Magdeburg	CityCR	ST	288,975	258,656	229,755	229,126	230,047
<	Mainz	CityCR	RP	172,529	183,720	185,293	194,372	197,623
<	Mannheim	CityCR	BW	295,191	311,292	308,385	307,900	311,342
<	Marburg	City	HE	68,624	76,834	77,556	79,139	79,836
<	Marl	City	NW	89,063	92,965	92,628	90,816	88,836
<	Meerbusch	City	NW	50,240	54,206	55,172	54,367	54,219
<	Menden (Sauerland)	City	NW	54,058	58,424	59,183	57,984	56,625
<	Minden	City	NW	75,031	82,971	82,898	83,118	82,809
<	Moers	City	NW	100,872	107,095	107,421	107,547	106,645
<	Mönchengladbach {Monchengladbach}	CityCR	NW	249,587	266,702	262,963	261,444	258,848
<	Mülheim (an der Ruhr) {Mulheim}	CityCR	NW	175,423	176,530	172,332	169,917	168,288
<	München [Munich] {Munchen}	CityCR	BY	1,185,421	1,236,370	1,227,958	1,259,677	1,326,807
<	Münster {Munster}	CityCR	NW	246,186	265,061	267,197	270,868	273,875
<	Neubrandenburg	CityCR	MV	87,235	80,483	71,723	68,188	65,879
<	Neumünster {Neumunster}	CityCR	SH	79,771	82,028	79,646	78,072	77,100
<	Neuss	City	NW	142,178	148,796	150,957	151,610	151,254
<	Neustadt (an der Weinstraße)	CityCR	RP	50,120	53,788	53,822	53,628	53,658
<	Neu-Ulm	City	BY	44,438	51,053	50,709	51,410	52,866
<	Neuwied	City	RP	60,261	67,374	67,011	66,144	64,885
<	Norderstedt	City	SH	65,976	69,766	72,016	71,330	71,929
<	Nordhorn	City	NI	48,368	51,269	52,479	53,085	53,401
<	Nürnberg [Nuremberg] {Nurnberg}	CityCR	BY	470,943	492,425	491,307	499,237	503,638
<	Oberhausen	CityCR	NW	220,286	224,397	221,619	218,898	215,670
<	Offenbach (am Main)	CityCR	HE	111,386	116,533	118,429	119,430	118,977
<	Offenburg	City	BW	51,311	56,045	58,280	58,793	59,208
<	Oldenburg (Oldenburg)	CityCR	NI	140,149	151,382	155,908	158,565	160,279
<	Osnabrück {Osnabruck}	CityCR	NI	150,807	168,618	164,195	163,814	163,286
<	Paderborn	City	NW	110,715	133,717	140,869	143,769	144,811
<	Passau	CityCR	BY	48,516	50,885	50,669	50,651	50,717
<	Pforzheim	CityCR	BW	106,530	118,763	118,002	119,021	119,839
<	Plauen	City	SN	82,628	73,021	71,155	68,892	66,870
<	Potsdam	CityCR	BB	...	144,118	141,907	147,583	152,966
<	Pulheim	City	NW	47,852	51,365	53,441	53,694	53,872
<	Ratingen	City	NW	88,631	89,534	91,793	91,975	91,704
<	Recklinghausen	City	NW	119,991	127,216	124,587	121,827	120,059
<	Regensburg	CityCR	BY	118,639	125,836	127,198	129,859	133,525
<	Remscheid	CityCR	NW	120,132	122,260	118,753	115,864	112,679
<	Reutlingen	City	BW	98,853	108,565	111,338	112,252	112,176
<	Rheine	City	NW	69,348	74,587	75,925	76,440	76,472
<	Rosenheim	CityCR	BY	53,155	58,920	59,310	60,226	60,711
<	Rostock	CityCR	MV	249,349	227,535	198,964	199,288	201,096
<	Rüsselsheim {Russelsheim}	City	HE	58,530	60,287	59,551	59,271	59,604
<	Saarbrücken {Saarbrucken}	City	SL	188,702	187,032	182,858	178,914	176,749
<	Salzgitter	CityCR	NI	111,069	117,713	111,696	107,726	104,423
<	Sankt Augustin	City	NW	49,396	55,065	55,539	56,110	55,624
<	Schwäbisch Gmünd {Schwabisch Gmund}	City	BW	56,754	63,734	61,873	61,350	60,682
<	Schweinfurt	CityCR	BY	51,962	55,722	54,568	54,273	53,588
<	Schwerin	CityCR	MV	128,328	114,688	99,978	96,656	95,551
<	Siegen	City	NW	106,384	111,398	108,397	106,293	104,419
<	Sindelfingen	City	BW	56,861	59,435	60,878	60,843	60,648
<	Solingen	CityCR	NW	159,103	165,735	165,032	163,581	161,779
<	Stolberg (Rheinland)	City	NW	55,747	58,203	58,718	58,577	58,057
<	Stralsund	CityCR	MV	75,857	65,977	59,970	58,708	57,866
<	Stuttgart	CityCR	BW	551,904	585,604	587,152	592,569	600,068
<	Trier	CityCR	RP	94,118	99,428	100,024	99,843	104,640
<	Troisdorf	City	NW	60,079	68,778	73,282	74,760	75,006
<	Tübingen {Tubingen}	City	BW	71,701	81,769	82,444	83,496	85,344
<	Ulm	CityCR	BW	103,494	115,721	118,347	120,625	121,648
<	Unna	City	NW	56,499	66,475	70,117	68,264	67,342
<	Velbert	City	NW	87,366	89,786	89,823	87,378	85,465
<	Viersen	City	NW	76,445	77,338	77,259	76,330	75,700
<	Villingen-Schwenningen	City	BW	75,861	80,734	81,691	81,778	81,246
<	Waiblingen	City	BW	45,603	50,333	52,536	52,856	52,845
<	Weimar	CityCR	TH	...	62,122	63,522	64,594	64,938
<	Wesel	City	NW	57,507	61,609	62,151	61,711	61,203
<	Wetzlar	City	HE	50,211	53,922	52,657	52,473	51,780
<	Wiesbaden	CityCR	HE	251,871	267,122	271,076	274,611	276,742
<	Wilhelmshaven	CityCR	NI	90,982	90,667	84,994	83,552	81,411
<	Willich	City	NW	40,303	45,932	50,853	51,939	51,856
<	Witten	City	NW	102,902	104,754	103,158	100,793	99,126
<	Wolfenbüttel {Wolfenbuttel}	City	NI	50,729	53,686	54,517	54,461	53,797
<	Wolfsburg	CityCR	NI	124,896	126,331	121,887	121,199	120,538
<	Worms	City	RP	73,635	80,014	80,625	81,545	82,040
<	Wuppertal	CityCR	NW	365,662	381,884	364,784	359,237	353,308
<	Würzburg {Wurzburg}	CityCR	BY	123,378	127,295	129,915	133,906	133,501
<	Zwickau	City	SN	130,455	111,498	101,726	97,832	94,887

(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) (2008) Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland: Gemeindeverzeichnis (web).

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