List of municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia

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The state of North Rhine-Westphalia consists of a total of

These are distributed as follows:

  • 272 cities including
    • 022 independent cities (all are large cities),
    • 001 regional city of Aachen (partly rights of an independent city)
    • 035 large cities belonging to the district, including 7 large cities
    • 130 medium-sized district towns
    • 084 other cities belonging to the district
  • 124 other municipalities belonging to the district.

Largest and smallest communities

The 30 most populous cities are shown in the following table, of which all 30 are large cities :

Most populous cities in North Rhine-Westphalia
city circle Population
December 31, 2000 		Population
December 31, 2006 		Inhabitants
December 31, 2019
Cologne Cologne (city) 962.884 989.766 1,087,863
Düsseldorf , state capital Düsseldorf (city) 569.364 577.505 0.621,877
Dortmund Dortmund (city) 588.994 587.624 0.588.250
eat Food (city) 595.243 583.198 0.582.760
Duisburg Duisburg (city) 514.915 499.111 0.498,686
Bochum Bochum (city) 391.147 383.743 0.365,587
Wuppertal Wuppertal (city) 366.434 358.330 0.355.100
Bielefeld Bielefeld (city) 321,758 325,846 0.334.195
Bonn , federal city Bonn (city) 307.814 314,299 0.329,673
Muenster Münster (city) 265,609 272.106 0.315.293
Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen (City) 278,695 266,772 0.259,645
Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (city) 263.014 260,951 0.261.034
Aachen City region Aachen 244.386 258.770 0.248.960
Krefeld Krefeld (city) 239.916 237.104 0.227,417
Oberhausen Oberhausen (city) 222.151 218.181 0.210.764
Hagen Hagen (city) 203.151 195,671 0.188,686
Hamm Hamm (city) 182.427 183,672 0.179.916
Mülheim an der Ruhr Mülheim (city) 172,862 169.414 0.170,632
Leverkusen Leverkusen (city) 161,047 161,336 0.163,729
Solingen Solingen (city) 164.973 162,948 0.159,245
Herne Herne (city) 174,529 169.991 0.156,449
Neuss Rhine district of Neuss 150.013 151,626 0.153,896
Paderborn Paderborn 139.084 144.258 0.151,633
Bottrop Bottrop (city) 120,611 118.975 0.117,565
Recklinghausen Recklinghausen 124,785 121,521 0.111,397
Bergisch Gladbach Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis 105,693 105,587 0.111,846
Remscheid Remscheid (city) 119.287 114,925 0.111,338
Moers Wesel 107.062 107.180 0.103.902
Wins Siegen-Wittgenstein 108,476 105,697 0.102,770
Gutersloh Gutersloh 095,158 096.284 0.100,861

The smallest municipality in the state and also the smallest administrative unit in North Rhine-Westphalia is Dahlem (4215 inhabitants) in the district of Euskirchen , the smallest town is Heimbach in the district of Düren , it has 4328 inhabitants. The smallest administrative unit in the Westphalian part of the country is the only slightly larger town of Hallenberg (4465 inhabitants) in the Hochsauerlandkreis .

Local reforms

For an overview of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia at the municipality level, see the list of all municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia A – E , F – K , L – R and S – Z

One district cities

Niederlande Belgien Niedersachsen Rheinland-Pfalz Hessen Essen Wuppertal Solingen Remscheid Hagen Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis Bochum Dortmund Herne Gelsenkirchen Bottrop Oberhausen Mülheim an der Ruhr Duisburg Kreis Mettmann Düsseldorf Rhein-Kreis Neuss Kreis Heinsberg Mönchengladbach Krefeld Kreis Viersen Kreis Wesel Kreis Kleve Rhein-Erft-Kreis Kreis Düren Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis Kreis Recklinghausen Kreis Borken Kreis Unna Märkischer Kreis Kreis Olpe Hamm Kreis Soest Kreis Coesfeld Kreis Steinfurt Kreis Warendorf Leverkusen Köln Städteregion Aachen Bonn Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Städteregion Aachen Kreis Euskirchen Münster Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein Hochsauerlandkreis Kreis Paderborn Kreis Gütersloh Kreis Höxter Kreis Lippe Kreis Herford Kreis Minden-Lübbecke Bielefeld
Counties and independent cities in North Rhine-Westphalia. (District-free cities dark gray)

In North Rhine-Westphalia there are the following 22 independent cities . If you add the special case of Aachen, there are 23 (as of December 31, 2019):

Independent cities of North Rhine-Westphalia
city License Plate Residents
Aachen 1 AC, MON 0.248.960
Bielefeld BI 0.334.195
Bochum BO, WAT 0.365,587
Bonn , federal city BN 0.329,673
Bottrop BOT 0.117,565
Dortmund DO 0.588.250
Duisburg YOU 0.498,686
Düsseldorf , state capital D. 0.621,877
eat E. 0.582.760
Gelsenkirchen GE 0.259,645
Hagen HA 0.188,686
Hamm HAM 0.179.916
Herne HER, WAN 0.156,449
Cologne K 1,087,863
Krefeld KR 0.227,417
Leverkusen LEV, OP 0.163,729
Mönchengladbach MG 0.261.034
Mülheim an der Ruhr MH 0.170,632
Muenster MS 0.315.293
Oberhausen IF 0.210.764
Remscheid RS 0.111,338
Solingen SG 0.159,245
Wuppertal W. 0.355.100
1only to a limited extent in accordance with the Aachen Act , otherwise for the Aachen city region

District communities

  • District-free city
  • Large city belonging to the district
  • Middle district city
  • District city
  • local community

    • The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is divided into 22 independent cities (see above) and 374 municipalities belonging to the district with the city of Aachen and the functional names

    Large and medium-sized cities belonging to a district are determined by ordinance according to the municipal code and perform additional tasks. Membership is based on the number of inhabitants, which must exceed or fall below certain values ​​on several reference dates. Cities with more than 60,000 inhabitants are officially designated as cities belonging to a large district, cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants can apply for this. They lose this status ex officio if they have fewer than 45,000 inhabitants. With more than 25,000 inhabitants, a municipality ex officio becomes a city belonging to the middle district, with more than 20,000 inhabitants it can apply for this. If the population falls below 15,000, it will be deleted from the list of cities belonging to the central district.

    The designation "city" is used by the municipalities to which this is entitled under previous law, as well as all large and medium-sized cities belonging to the district. This designation is independent of the future population development.

    Large district cities

    (usually more than 60,000 inhabitants; number: 35; 7 of them are large cities )
    (population in brackets, as of December 31, 2019)
    (*) less than 60,000 inhabitants

    Middle district cities

    (generally 25,000 to 60,000 inhabitants)
    Number: 129
    (population in brackets, as of December 31, 2019)
    (*) fewer than 25,000 inhabitants
    (**) fewer than 20,000 inhabitants

    Other cities belonging to the district

    (usually less than 25,000 inhabitants, designation "city" according to previous law)
    Number: 84
    (number of inhabitants in brackets, as of December 31, 2019)

    Other municipalities belonging to the district

    (less than 25,000 inhabitants)
    Number: 125
    (population in brackets, as of December 31, 2019)

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ LDS NRW, June 2008 ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lds.nrw.de
    2. ↑ a b c d e f Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - Update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. Landesbetrieb Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17 2020 .  ( Help on this )