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Federal States

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

Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	Area A (km²)	Population Census (C) 1987-05-25	Population Estimate (E) 1995-12-31	Population Estimate (E) 2001-12-31	Population Census (C) 2011-05-09	Population Estimate (E) 2017-12-31
Germany	DEU	Fed Rep	Berlin	357,386	77,718,000	81,817,499	82,440,309	80,219,695	82,792,351
Baden-Württemberg	BW	FSt	Stuttgart	35,677	9,286,387	10,319,367	10,600,906	10,486,660	11,023,425	3567700	→
Bayern [Bavaria]	BY	FSt	München	70,550	10,902,643	11,993,484	12,329,714	12,397,614	12,997,204	7055000	→
Berlin	BE	FSt	Berlin	892	3,260,000	3,471,418	3,388,434	3,292,365	3,613,495	89200	→
Brandenburg	BB	FSt	Potsdam	29,654	2,665,000	2,542,042	2,593,040	2,455,780	2,504,040	2965400	→
Bremen	HB	FSt	Bremen	420	660,084	679,757	659,651	650,863	681,032	42000	→
Hamburg	HH	FSt	Hamburg	755	1,592,770	1,707,901	1,726,363	1,706,696	1,830,584	75500	→
Hessen [Hesse]	HE	FSt	Wiesbaden	21,115	5,507,777	6,009,913	6,077,826	5,971,816	6,243,262	2111500	→
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]	MV	FSt	Schwerin	23,213	1,971,000	1,823,084	1,759,877	1,609,982	1,611,119	2321300	→
Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony]	NI	FSt	Hannover	47,616	7,162,103	7,780,422	7,956,416	7,777,992	7,962,775	4761600	→
Nordrhein-Westfalen [North Rhine-Westphalia]	NW	FSt	Düsseldorf	34,113	16,711,845	17,893,045	18,052,092	17,538,251	17,912,134	3411300	→
Rheinland-Pfalz [Rhineland-Palatinate]	RP	FSt	Mainz	19,854	3,630,823	3,977,919	4,049,066	3,989,808	4,073,679	1985400	→
Saarland	SL	FSt	Saarbrücken	2,569	1,055,660	1,084,370	1,066,470	999,623	994,187	256900	→
Sachsen [Saxony]	SN	FSt	Dresden	18,449	5,032,000	4,566,603	4,384,192	4,056,799	4,081,308	1844900	→
Sachsen-Anhalt [Saxony-Anhalt]	ST	FSt	Magdeburg	20,452	3,008,000	2,738,928	2,580,626	2,287,040	2,223,081	2045200	→
Schleswig-Holstein	SH	FSt	Kiel	15,803	2,554,241	2,725,461	2,804,249	2,800,119	2,889,821	1580300	→
Thüringen [Thuringia]	TH	FSt	Erfurt	16,202	2,718,000	2,503,785	2,411,387	2,188,589	2,151,205	1620200	→

Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (web).

Major Cities

	Name	Adm.	Population Estimate (E) 2017-12-31
1	Berlin	BE	3,613,495
2	Hamburg	HH	1,830,584
3	München	BY	1,456,039
4	Köln	NW	1,080,394
5	Frankfurt am Main	HE	746,878
6	Stuttgart	BW	632,743
7	Düsseldorf	NW	617,280
8	Dortmund	NW	586,600
9	Essen	NW	583,393
10	Leipzig	SN	581,980
11	Bremen	HB	568,006
12	Dresden	SN	551,072

Contents: Cities

The population of all cities in Germany with more than 50,000 inhabitants according to census results and latest official estimates.

Name	Status	Adm.	Population Census (C) 1987-05-25	Population Estimate (E) 1995-12-31	Population Estimate (E) 2001-12-31	Population Census (C) 2011-05-09	Population Estimate (E) 2017-12-31	Area
Aachen [Aix-la-Chapelle]	City	NW	229,740	247,923	245,778	236,420	246,272	16085	→
Aalen	City	BW	62,633	66,234	66,559	66,318	67,849	14658	→
Ahlen	City	NW	52,657	55,785	55,481	52,280	52,530	12313	→
Arnsberg	City	NW	74,091	78,972	77,396	74,383	73,814	19372	→
Aschaffenburg	CityCR	BY	60,964	66,360	68,361	67,359	69,928	6245	→
Augsburg	CityCR	BY	242,819	259,699	257,836	267,767	292,851	14687	→
Baden-Baden	CityCR	BW	50,127	52,745	53,084	52,314	54,718	14019	→
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	City	HE	50,329	51,178	52,858	51,370	53,884	5116	→
Bad Kreuznach	City	RP	38,942	42,918	43,265	43,244	50,484	5556	→
Bad Salzuflen	City	NW	50,588	55,029	55,088	52,285	53,856	10005	→
Bamberg	CityCR	BY	69,100	69,652	69,396	70,635	77,179	5462	→
Bayreuth	CityCR	BY	69,813	73,016	74,519	70,808	73,999	6689	→
Bergheim	City	NW	54,545	60,610	63,591	58,922	61,099	9634	→
Bergisch Gladbach	City	NW	100,589	105,478	105,569	108,878	111,627	8309	→
Berlin	CityCR	BE	3,260,000	3,471,418	3,388,434	3,292,365	3,613,495	89112	→
Bielefeld	CityCR	NW	305,566	324,066	323,373	326,870	332,552	25882	→
Böblingen	City	BW	42,589	46,516	45,940	44,859	50,035	3904	→
Bocholt	City	NW	67,028	70,424	72,701	71,256	71,036	11940	→
Bochum	CityCR	NW	386,271	400,395	390,087	362,286	365,529	14566	→
Bonn	CityCR	NW	276,653	291,431	306,016	305,765	325,490	14106	→
Bottrop	CityCR	NW	114,640	120,642	120,780	117,311	117,364	10061	→
Brandenburg an der Havel	CityCR	BB	...	86,753	77,245	71,569	71,886	22972	→
Braunschweig [Brunswick]	CityCR	NI	252,351	252,544	245,516	242,537	248,023	19270	→
Bremen	CityCR	HB	533,455	549,357	540,950	542,707	568,006	32618	→
Bremerhaven	CityCR	HB	126,629	130,400	118,701	108,156	113,026	9366	→
Castrop-Rauxel	City	NW	77,081	79,160	78,471	74,629	73,989	5168	→
Celle	City	NI	71,222	73,936	71,949	69,001	69,706	17602	→
Chemnitz	CityCR	SN	335,983	288,268	255,798	240,253	246,855	22105	→
Cottbus (Chóśebuz)	CityCR	BB	...	126,343	111,125	99,984	101,036	16562	→
Darmstadt	CityCR	HE	134,272	138,980	138,457	143,499	158,254	12209	→
Delmenhorst	CityCR	NI	72,072	78,226	76,284	73,322	77,521	6245	→
Dessau-Roßlau	CityCR	ST	...	107,698	97,627	86,030	82,111	24475	→
Detmold	City	NW	65,502	73,343	73,771	73,743	74,353	12939	→
Dinslaken	City	NW	62,458	69,148	71,005	67,853	67,489	4766	→
Dormagen	City	NW	54,790	61,155	63,295	62,208	64,177	8550	→
Dorsten	City	NW	73,744	80,735	81,293	76,860	75,252	17120	→
Dortmund	CityCR	NW	584,089	598,840	589,240	571,143	586,600	28071	→
Dresden	CityCR	SN	542,252	495,424	478,631	512,354	551,072	32848	→
Duisburg	CityCR	NW	525,378	535,250	512,030	488,468	498,110	23280	→
Düren	City	NW	82,857	90,274	92,292	88,789	90,502	8500	→
Düsseldorf [Dusseldorf]	CityCR	NW	563,531	571,030	570,765	586,291	617,280	21741	→
Emden	CityCR	NI	50,144	51,559	51,185	49,787	50,607	11234	→
Erfurt	CityCR	TH	...	211,108	200,126	200,868	212,988	26991	→
Erlangen	CityCR	BY	99,808	101,406	101,912	103,719	110,998	7696	→
Eschweiler	City	NW	53,058	56,171	55,257	54,671	56,207	7575	→
Essen	CityCR	NW	623,427	614,861	591,889	566,201	583,393	21034	→
Esslingen am Neckar	City	BW	90,557	90,029	90,905	86,885	93,004	4643	→
Euskirchen	City	NW	47,050	52,205	54,047	55,414	57,715	13949	→
Flensburg	CityCR	SH	86,554	87,276	84,480	82,258	88,519	5674	→
Frankfurt (Oder)	CityCR	BB	86,441	80,807	70,308	59,140	58,237	14785	→
Frankfurt am Main	CityCR	HE	618,266	650,055	641,076	667,925	746,878	24831	→
Frechen	City	NW	42,348	45,583	47,382	49,657	52,212	4506	→
Freiburg im Breisgau	CityCR	BW	178,672	199,273	208,294	209,628	229,636	15304	→
Friedrichshafen	City	BW	51,808	56,315	57,538	56,937	60,088	6993	→
Fulda	City	HE	54,322	60,851	62,819	64,414	67,973	10404	→
Fürth	CityCR	BY	97,480	108,418	111,257	115,613	126,526	6335	→
Garbsen	City	NI	58,081	62,681	63,271	59,499	60,875	7949	→
Gelsenkirchen	CityCR	NW	287,508	291,164	276,740	258,766	260,305	10494	→
Gera	CityCR	TH	...	123,555	109,926	96,067	94,859	15219	→
Gießen	City	HE	69,824	73,889	73,295	74,776	87,343	7255	→
Gladbeck	City	NW	78,343	79,605	77,460	73,974	75,689	3597	→
Göppingen	City	BW	52,151	58,086	57,536	55,037	57,094	5921	→
Görlitz	City	SN	83,215	67,980	60,264	54,441	56,391	6752	→
Goslar	City	NI	57,311	57,629	55,646	51,261	51,128	16388	→
Göttingen	City	NI	114,698	126,253	123,822	115,843	119,529	11693	→
Greifswald	City	MV	67,298	60,772	53,533	55,447	58,886	5081	→
Grevenbroich	City	NW	58,611	63,604	65,039	61,741	63,204	10241	→
Gummersbach	City	NW	48,250	53,149	53,355	49,951	50,497	9542	→
Gütersloh	City	NW	81,804	92,842	95,459	94,172	99,315	11202	→
Hagen	CityCR	NW	209,363	212,003	202,060	187,944	187,730	16045	→
Halle (Saale)	CityCR	ST	329,625	282,784	243,045	229,153	239,173	13502	→
Hamburg	CityCR	HH	1,592,770	1,707,901	1,726,363	1,706,696	1,830,584	75530	→
Hameln	City	NI	58,181	58,781	59,052	56,756	57,228	10253	→
Hamm	CityCR	NW	171,170	183,408	183,805	176,037	179,185	22643	→
Hanau	City	HE	83,391	88,921	88,801	86,803	96,130	7649	→
Hannover [Hanover]	City	NI	494,864	523,147	516,415	506,416	535,061	20430	→
Hattingen	City	NW	55,880	58,650	58,023	54,253	54,628	7166	→
Heidelberg	CityCR	BW	127,768	138,781	141,509	146,751	160,601	10889	→
Heilbronn	CityCR	BW	110,970	121,509	120,163	116,059	125,113	9989	→
Herford	City	NW	60,935	65,919	65,097	65,213	66,923	7916	→
Herne	CityCR	NW	174,238	179,897	174,018	155,160	156,490	5142	→
Herten	City	NW	67,806	69,183	66,495	61,505	61,669	3733	→
Hilden	City	NW	53,262	55,086	56,615	54,390	55,817	2595	→
Hildesheim	City	NI	103,449	106,101	103,717	99,554	101,744	9229	→
Hürth	City	NW	48,376	52,351	54,095	55,082	59,762	5122	→
Ibbenbüren	City	NW	43,243	47,421	49,485	50,569	52,037	10887	→
Ingolstadt	CityCR	BY	96,071	111,979	117,311	124,927	135,244	13335	→
Iserlohn	City	NW	92,183	99,341	98,865	94,630	92,928	12549	→
Jena	CityCR	TH	...	101,061	101,157	105,739	111,099	11476	→
Kaiserslautern	CityCR	RP	97,326	102,002	99,794	96,340	99,684	13970	→
Karlsruhe	CityCR	BW	260,591	275,690	279,578	289,173	311,919	17342	→
Kassel	CityCR	HE	187,288	201,573	194,748	190,765	200,736	10678	→
Kempten (Allgäu)	CityCR	BY	59,369	61,657	61,505	64,078	68,330	6328	→
Kerpen	City	NW	53,608	61,998	63,652	63,273	65,420	11396	→
Kiel	CityCR	SH	237,767	246,033	232,242	235,782	247,943	11865	→
Kleve	City	NW	44,106	48,344	49,031	47,438	51,320	9776	→
Koblenz	CityCR	RP	108,246	109,219	107,730	107,825	113,844	10525	→
Köln [Cologne]	CityCR	NW	928,309	965,697	967,940	1,005,775	1,080,394	40502	→
Konstanz	City	BW	70,378	76,000	79,240	77,796	84,440	5411	→
Krefeld	CityCR	NW	232,261	249,606	239,559	222,247	226,699	13777	→
Landshut	CityCR	BY	56,446	59,219	59,513	63,544	71,193	6583	→
Langenfeld (Rheinland)	City	NW	50,297	56,676	58,757	56,829	58,698	4115	→
Langenhagen	City	NI	45,965	48,921	49,506	50,821	53,790	7197	→
Leipzig	CityCR	SN	600,543	519,710	493,052	502,979	581,980	29780	→
Leverkusen	CityCR	NW	154,692	162,252	160,829	158,984	163,577	7887	→
Lingen (Ems)	City	NI	47,489	52,270	51,362	51,821	54,117	17619	→
Lippstadt	City	NW	60,102	66,636	67,231	65,886	67,936	11368	→
Lübeck	CityCR	SH	210,497	216,986	213,496	210,305	216,318	21421	→
Lüdenscheid	City	NW	74,635	81,837	80,509	73,762	72,894	8702	→
Ludwigsburg	City	BW	78,884	86,810	87,502	86,139	93,593	4334	→
Ludwigshafen am Rhein	CityCR	RP	156,601	167,369	162,458	157,584	168,497	7743	→
Lüneburg	City	NI	59,543	64,558	68,234	69,905	75,192	7050	→
Lünen	City	NW	84,664	91,592	92,005	86,010	86,465	5939	→
Magdeburg	CityCR	ST	288,975	258,656	229,755	228,144	238,478	20101	→
Mainz	CityCR	RP	172,529	183,720	185,293	200,344	215,110	9773	→
Mannheim	CityCR	BW	295,191	311,292	308,385	290,117	307,997	14497	→
Marburg	City	HE	68,624	76,834	77,556	71,683	76,226	12392	→
Marl	City	NW	89,063	92,965	92,628	84,782	83,695	8776	→
Meerbusch	City	NW	50,240	54,206	55,172	54,313	55,548	6439	→
Menden (Sauerland)	City	NW	54,058	58,424	59,183	54,495	53,046	8610	→
Minden	City	NW	75,031	82,971	82,898	80,121	81,698	10112	→
Moers	City	NW	100,872	107,095	107,421	104,009	103,949	6768	→
Mönchengladbach	CityCR	NW	249,587	266,702	262,963	255,188	262,188	17047	→
Mülheim an der Ruhr	CityCR	NW	176,423	176,530	172,332	166,865	171,265	9128	→
München [Munich]	CityCR	BY	1,185,421	1,236,370	1,227,958	1,348,335	1,456,039	31071	→
Münster	CityCR	NW	246,186	265,061	267,197	289,576	313,559	30328	→
Neubrandenburg	City	MV	87,235	80,483	71,723	64,111	64,259	8611	→
Neumünster	CityCR	SH	79,771	82,028	79,646	77,249	79,335	7163	→
Neuss	City	NW	142,178	148,796	150,957	150,568	153,810	9952	→
Neustadt an der Weinstraße	CityCR	RP	50,120	53,788	53,822	52,164	53,353	11709	→
Neu-Ulm	City	BY	44,438	51,053	50,709	52,706	57,727	8095	→
Neuwied	City	RP	60,261	67,374	67,011	64,144	64,661	8650	→
Norderstedt	City	SH	65,976	69,766	72,016	73,913	78,679	5810	→
Nordhorn	City	NI	48,368	51,269	52,479	52,029	53,278	14987	→
Nürnberg [Nuremberg]	CityCR	BY	470,943	492,425	491,307	486,314	515,201	18645	→
Oberhausen	CityCR	NW	220,286	224,397	221,619	210,216	211,422	7709	→
Offenbach am Main	CityCR	HE	111,386	116,533	118,429	113,443	126,658	4489	→
Offenburg	City	BW	51,311	56,045	58,280	57,228	59,060	7837	→
Oldenburg (Oldenburg)	CityCR	NI	140,149	151,382	155,908	157,267	167,081	10309	→
Osnabrück	CityCR	NI	150,807	168,618	164,195	153,699	164,374	11980	→
Paderborn	City	NW	110,715	133,717	140,869	142,365	149,075	17959	→
Passau	CityCR	BY	48,516	50,885	50,669	48,649	51,781	6956	→
Pforzheim	CityCR	BW	106,530	118,763	118,002	114,411	124,289	9807	→
Plauen	City	SN	82,628	73,021	71,155	64,468	65,148	10211	→
Potsdam	CityCR	BB	...	144,118	141,907	156,021	175,710	18826	→
Pulheim	City	NW	47,852	51,365	53,441	52,929	53,900	7215	→
Ratingen	City	NW	88,631	89,534	91,793	86,967	87,226	8874	→
Ravensburg	City	BW	43,913	46,620	47,974	48,393	50,393	9205	→
Recklinghausen	City	NW	119,991	127,216	124,587	115,958	113,360	6650	→
Regensburg	CityCR	BY	118,639	125,836	127,198	135,403	150,894	8085	→
Remscheid	CityCR	NW	120,132	122,260	118,753	110,708	110,584	7452	→
Reutlingen	City	BW	98,853	108,565	111,338	109,799	115,762	8704	→
Rheine	City	NW	69,348	74,587	75,925	72,749	76,018	14500	→
Rosenheim	CityCR	BY	53,155	58,920	59,310	59,329	63,080	3722	→
Rostock	CityCR	MV	249,349	227,535	198,964	200,265	208,409	18136	→
Rüsselsheim am Main	City	HE	58,530	60,287	59,551	58,765	64,922	5829	→
Saarbrücken	City	SL	188,702	187,032	182,858	175,853	180,966	16752	→
Salzgitter	CityCR	NI	111,069	117,713	111,696	98,895	104,548	22449	→
Sankt Augustin	City	NW	49,396	55,065	55,539	53,850	55,873	3422	→
Schwäbisch Gmünd	City	BW	56,754	63,734	61,873	58,105	60,914	11378	→
Schweinfurt	CityCR	BY	51,962	55,722	54,568	52,143	53,437	3570	→
Schwerin	CityCR	MV	128,328	114,688	99,978	91,293	95,797	13052	→
Siegen	City	NW	106,384	111,398	108,397	99,187	102,337	11469	→
Sindelfingen	City	BW	56,861	59,435	60,878	60,534	64,599	5083	→
Solingen	CityCR	NW	159,103	165,735	165,032	155,265	158,803	8954	→
Speyer	CityCR	RP	44,034	49,664	49,956	49,540	50,931	4271	→
Stolberg (Rhld.)	City	NW	55,747	58,203	58,718	56,206	56,751	9848	→
Stralsund	City	MV	75,857	65,977	59,970	56,729	59,517	5414	→
Stuttgart	CityCR	BW	551,904	585,604	587,152	585,890	632,743	20733	→
Trier	CityCR	RP	94,118	99,428	100,024	105,671	110,013	11707	→
Troisdorf	City	NW	60,079	68,778	73,282	72,408	74,870	6200	→
Tübingen	City	BW	71,701	81,769	82,444	82,511	89,447	10807	→
Ulm	CityCR	BW	103,494	115,721	118,347	116,761	125,596	11868	→
Unna	City	NW	56,499	66,475	70,117	59,149	57,158	8856	→
Velbert	City	NW	87,366	89,786	89,823	81,303	82,061	7490	→
Viersen	City	NW	76,445	77,338	77,259	74,941	76,586	9110	→
Villingen-Schwenningen	City	BW	75,861	80,734	81,691	80,123	84,557	16550	→
Waiblingen	City	BW	45,603	50,333	52,536	51,552	55,123	4275	→
Weimar	CityCR	TH	...	62,122	63,522	62,764	64,426	8448	→
Wesel	City	NW	57,507	61,609	62,151	60,335	60,496	12256	→
Wetzlar	City	HE	50,211	53,922	52,657	50,826	52,828	7567	→
Wiesbaden	CityCR	HE	251,871	267,122	271,076	269,121	278,654	20393	→
Wilhelmshaven	CityCR	NI	90,982	90,667	84,994	77,451	76,316	10707	→
Willich	City	NW	40,303	45,932	50,853	50,708	51,179	6780	→
Witten	City	NW	102,902	104,754	103,158	96,382	96,565	7240	→
Wolfenbüttel	City	NI	50,729	53,686	54,517	51,756	52,357	7874	→
Wolfsburg	CityCR	NI	124,896	126,331	121,887	119,984	123,914	20461	→
Worms	CityCR	RP	73,635	80,014	80,625	79,207	83,081	10873	→
Wuppertal	CityCR	NW	365,662	381,884	364,784	342,661	353,590	16839	→
Würzburg	CityCR	BY	123,378	127,295	129,915	124,297	126,635	8760	→
Zwickau	City	SN	130,455	111,498	101,726	93,081	90,192	10258	→

Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (web), Statistische Landesämter (web).