80 Largest cities in Germany with at least 100 000 inhabitants. This number fluctuates year by year. The largest city in Germany is Berlin with 3.662 million inhabitants, followed by Hamburg (1.852 million), Munich (1.489 million) and Cologne (1.024 million). The largest concentration of cities with >100 000 inhabitant is in the Ruhr region. Population data is from 2024, cities on the map are shown with their population in thousands.
Table below shows 80 largest cities in Germany by population in 2024:
| City | Population in 2024 |
|---|---|
| Berlin | 3662381 |
| Hamburg | 1851596 |
| Munich | 1488719 |
| Cologne | 1024408 |
| Frankfurt | 749596 |
| Düsseldorf | 616319 |
| Stuttgart | 613111 |
| Leipzig | 608013 |
| Dortmund | 601343 |
| Bremen | 584332 |
| Essen | 574082 |
| Dresden | 563019 |
| Nuremberg | 526606 |
| Hannover | 520290 |
| Duisburg | 503185 |
| Wuppertal | 358592 |
| Bochum | 357024 |
| Bielefeld | 331519 |
| Bonn | 321680 |
| Mannheim | 316256 |
| Karlsruhe | 308197 |
| Münster | 307071 |
| Augsburg | 298972 |
| Wiesbaden | 287241 |
| Mönchengladbach | 267667 |
| Gelsenkirchen | 267284 |
| Aachen | 263772 |
| Braunschweig | 253527 |
| Kiel | 251751 |
| Chemnitz | 245150 |
| Magdeburg | 242491 |
| Freiburg im Breisgau | 236236 |
| Krefeld | 230393 |
| Halle | 227639 |
| Mainz | 223871 |
| Erfurt | 219549 |
| Lübeck | 217061 |
| Oberhausen | 213510 |
| Rostock | 204948 |
| Kassel | 197065 |
| Hagen | 190640 |
| Potsdam | 184290 |
| Saarbrücken | 182450 |
| Hamm | 179380 |
| Oldenburg | 176242 |
| Ludwigshafen | 175816 |
| Mülheim | 172887 |
| Leverkusen | 167850 |
| Solingen | 166078 |
| Osnabrück | 165686 |
| Darmstadt | 164832 |
| Paderborn | 156887 |
| Herne | 156154 |
| Heidelberg | 155175 |
| Neuss | 154712 |
| Regensburg | 149664 |
| Ingolstadt | 139536 |
| Pforzheim | 135087 |
| Würzburg | 131759 |
| Fürth | 131712 |
| Heilbronn | 131653 |
| Wolfsburg | 129347 |
| Ulm | 128998 |
| Göttingen | 126968 |
| Bottrop | 118912 |
| Reutlingen | 118770 |
| Bremerhaven | 118323 |
| Recklinghausen | 115396 |
| Erlangen | 115314 |
| Remscheid | 114061 |
| Koblenz | 113346 |
| Bergisch Gladbach | 111003 |
| Jena | 110076 |
| Salzgitter | 105056 |
| Trier | 103986 |
| Siegen | 102440 |
| Moers | 101601 |
| Kaiserslautern | 100571 |
| Gütersloh | 99793 |
| Hanau | 99786 |
| Hildesheim | 98299 |