List of municipalities in Germany

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Below is a list of municipalities in Germany with over 20,000 inhabitants in December 2022. The list is sorted by population and gives the state of every municipality. In cases where the municipality's name in German differs from its name in English, the English name is listed first with the German name given in parentheses.

In German, the term Mittelstadt (literally "middle [sized] city") is used for a settlement with 20,000 to 99,999 inhabitants, while a settlement of 100,000 or more is called a Großstadt (literally "big city", but usually translated "city"). Population is counted either in terms of a continuous urban area or by municipal boundaries. If going by municipal borders, that also makes this a list of Groß- and Mittelstädte.

The data basis is from December 31, 2022.

  City Federal state Population in 2022
1BerlinBerlin3,755,251
2HamburgHamburg1,892,122
3Munich (München)Bavaria1,512,491
4Cologne (Köln)North Rhine-Westphalia1,084,831
5FrankfurtHesse773,068
6StuttgartBaden-Württemberg632,865
7DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia629,047
8LeipzigSaxony616,093
9DortmundNorth Rhine-Westphalia593,317
10EssenNorth Rhine-Westphalia584,580
11BremenFree Hanseatic City of Bremen569,396
12DresdenSaxony563,311
13Hanover (Hannover)Lower Saxony545,045
14Nuremberg (Nürnberg)Bavaria523,026
15DuisburgNorth Rhine-Westphalia502,211
16BochumNorth Rhine-Westphalia365,742
17WuppertalNorth Rhine-Westphalia358,876
18BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia338,332
19BonnNorth Rhine-Westphalia336,465
20MünsterNorth Rhine-Westphalia320,946
21MannheimBaden-Württemberg315,554
22KarlsruheBaden-Württemberg308,707
23AugsburgBavaria301,033
24WiesbadenHesse283,083
25MönchengladbachNorth Rhine-Westphalia268,465
26GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia263,000
27AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia252,136
28BraunschweigLower Saxony251,804
29ChemnitzSaxony248,563
30KielSchleswig-Holstein247,717
31HalleSaxony-Anhalt242,083
32MagdeburgSaxony-Anhalt239,364
33FreiburgBaden-Württemberg236,140
34KrefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia228,426
35MainzRhineland-Palatinate220,552
36LübeckSchleswig-Holstein218,095
37ErfurtThuringia214,969
38OberhausenNorth Rhine-Westphalia210,824
39RostockMecklenburg-Vorpommern209,920
40KasselHesse204,202
41HagenNorth Rhine-Westphalia189,783
42PotsdamBrandenburg185,750
43SaarbrückenSaarland181,959
44HammNorth Rhine-Westphalia180,849
45LudwigshafenRhineland-Palatinate174,265
46OldenburgLower Saxony172,830
47MülheimNorth Rhine-Westphalia172,404
48OsnabrückLower Saxony167,366
49LeverkusenNorth Rhine-Westphalia165,748
50HeidelbergBaden-Württemberg162,273
51DarmstadtHesse162,243
52SolingenNorth Rhine-Westphalia160,643
53RegensburgBavaria157,443
54HerneNorth Rhine-Westphalia157,368
55PaderbornNorth Rhine-Westphalia154,755
56NeussNorth Rhine-Westphalia154,139
57IngolstadtBavaria141,029
58OffenbachHesse134,170
59FürthBavaria131,433
60UlmBaden-Württemberg128,928
61HeilbronnBaden-Württemberg128,334
62PforzheimBaden-Württemberg127,849
63WürzburgBavaria127,810
64WolfsburgLower Saxony125,961
65GöttingenLower Saxony118,946
66BottropNorth Rhine-Westphalia118,113
67ReutlingenBaden-Württemberg117,547
68ErlangenBavaria116,562
69BremerhavenFree Hanseatic City of Bremen115,468
70KoblenzRhineland-Palatinate115,268
71Bergisch GladbachNorth Rhine-Westphalia112,712
72RemscheidNorth Rhine-Westphalia112,613
73TrierRhineland-Palatinate112,195
74RecklinghausenNorth Rhine-Westphalia111,734
75JenaThuringia111,191
76MoersNorth Rhine-Westphalia105,287
77SalzgitterLower Saxony104,548
78SiegenNorth Rhine-Westphalia102,560
79GüterslohNorth Rhine-Westphalia102,393
80HildesheimLower Saxony101,858
81HanauHesse101,364
82KaiserslauternRhineland-Palatinate101,228

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