List of the largest cities in the German-speaking area

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The list of the largest German-speaking cities provides an overview of the population of the major German-speaking cities . Cities that belong to the German-speaking area are listed.

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Big cities

According to a definition of the International Statistics Conference of 1887, all cities with at least 100,000 inhabitants are referred to as large cities. In 2010 there were around 4,000 large cities worldwide. In German-speaking countries there are currently 90 cities with over 100,000 inhabitants, the largest proportion of which is in Germany. As of 2012 there have been 76 large cities in Germany, 28 of which (37%) are in North Rhine-Westphalia. Four are metropolises , another nine have more than half a million inhabitants. Austria has six major cities, including Vienna, a city of millions. About 1/4 of the Austrian population lives in the greater Vienna area (2.6 million people). There are four major German-speaking cities in Switzerland, other languages ​​are not included in the list. In France there are two large cities, some of which are German-speaking, Strasbourg and Mulhouse. Luxembourg and Italy (South Tyrol) each have a (partially) German-speaking city.

list

Cities in Germany are only listed if they are among the 20 largest German-speaking cities.

rank	Surname	Ew. 2013/14/15/16	Area in km²	Ew. / km²	country
1	Berlin	3 440 991	891.70	3 837	Germany
2	Vienna	1 840 573	414.87	4 437	Austria
3	Hamburg	1 746 342	755.22nd	2 312	Germany
4th	Munich	1 407 836	310.74	4 531	Germany
5	Cologne	1 034 175	405.16	2 553	Germany
6th	Frankfurt am Main	701 350	248.31	2 824	Germany
7th	Stuttgart	604 297	207.36	2 914	Germany
8th	Dusseldorf	598 686	217.41	2 754	Germany
9	Dortmund	575 944	280.71	2 052	Germany
10	eat	569 884	210.30th	2 710	Germany
11	Bremen	548 547	325.56	1 685	Germany
12	Leipzig	531 582	297.37	1 788	Germany
13	Dresden	530 754	328.31	1 617	Germany
14th	Hanover	518 386	204.14th	2 539	Germany
15th	Nuremberg	511 628	186.46	2 744	Germany
16	Duisburg	486 855	232.80	2 091	Germany
17th	Zurich	404 783	91.88	4 046	Switzerland
18th	Bochum	361 734	145.66	2 483	Germany
19th	Wuppertal	343 488	168.39	2 040	Germany
20th	Bielefeld	328 864	258.82	1 271	Germany
26th	Graz	286 292	127.46	2 056	Austria
27	Strasbourg	274 394	78.26th	3 506	France
43	Linz	200 841	95.99	2 000	Austria
48	Basel	174 491	22nd.75	7 670	Switzerland
60	Salzburg	150 887	65.64	2 224	Austria
66	innsbruck	130 894	104.91	1 209	Austria
65	Bern	128 848	51.60	2 497	Switzerland
80	Luxembourg	111 287	51.50	2 163	Luxembourg
81	Mulhouse	110 755	22nd.18th	4 993	France
85	Bolzano	105 713	52.30th	2 021	Italy
86	Winterthur	105 676	52.30th	1 553	Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kleinezeitung.at