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.
Großstädte CityFederal statePopulation in 2022 1 Berlin Berlin 3,755,251 2 Hamburg Hamburg 1,892,122 3 Munich (München) Bavaria 1,512,491 4 Cologne (Köln) North Rhine-Westphalia 1,084,831 5 Frankfurt Hesse 773,068 6 Stuttgart Baden-Württemberg 632,865 7 Düsseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia 629,047 8 Leipzig Saxony 616,093 9 Dortmund North Rhine-Westphalia 593,317 10 Essen North Rhine-Westphalia 584,580 11 Bremen Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 569,396 12 Dresden Saxony 563,311 13 Hanover (Hannover) Lower Saxony 545,045 14 Nuremberg (Nürnberg) Bavaria 523,026 15 Duisburg North Rhine-Westphalia 502,211 16 Bochum North Rhine-Westphalia 365,742 17 Wuppertal North Rhine-Westphalia 358,876 18 Bielefeld North Rhine-Westphalia 338,332 19 Bonn North Rhine-Westphalia 336,465 20 Münster North Rhine-Westphalia 320,946 21 Mannheim Baden-Württemberg 315,554 22 Karlsruhe Baden-Württemberg 308,707 23 Augsburg Bavaria 301,033 24 Wiesbaden Hesse 283,083 25 Mönchengladbach North Rhine-Westphalia 268,465 26 Gelsenkirchen North Rhine-Westphalia 263,000 27 Aachen North Rhine-Westphalia 252,136 28 Braunschweig Lower Saxony 251,804 29 Chemnitz Saxony 248,563 30 Kiel Schleswig-Holstein 247,717 31 Halle Saxony-Anhalt 242,083 32 Magdeburg Saxony-Anhalt 239,364 33 Freiburg Baden-Württemberg 236,140 34 Krefeld North Rhine-Westphalia 228,426 35 Mainz Rhineland-Palatinate 220,552 36 Lübeck Schleswig-Holstein 218,095 37 Erfurt Thuringia 214,969 38 Oberhausen North Rhine-Westphalia 210,824 39 Rostock Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 209,920 40 Kassel Hesse 204,202 41 Hagen North Rhine-Westphalia 189,783 42 Potsdam Brandenburg 185,750 43 Saarbrücken Saarland 181,959 44 Hamm North Rhine-Westphalia 180,849 45 Ludwigshafen Rhineland-Palatinate 174,265 46 Oldenburg Lower Saxony 172,830 47 Mülheim North Rhine-Westphalia 172,404 48 Osnabrück Lower Saxony 167,366 49 Leverkusen North Rhine-Westphalia 165,748 50 Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg 162,273 51 Darmstadt Hesse 162,243 52 Solingen North Rhine-Westphalia 160,643 53 Regensburg Bavaria 157,443 54 Herne North Rhine-Westphalia 157,368 55 Paderborn North Rhine-Westphalia 154,755 56 Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia 154,139 57 Ingolstadt Bavaria 141,029 58 Offenbach Hesse 134,170 59 Fürth Bavaria 131,433 60 Ulm Baden-Württemberg 128,928 61 Heilbronn Baden-Württemberg 128,334 62 Pforzheim Baden-Württemberg 127,849 63 Würzburg Bavaria 127,810 64 Wolfsburg Lower Saxony 125,961 65 Göttingen Lower Saxony 118,946 66 Bottrop North Rhine-Westphalia 118,113 67 Reutlingen Baden-Württemberg 117,547 68 Erlangen Bavaria 116,562 69 Bremerhaven Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 115,468 70 Koblenz Rhineland-Palatinate 115,268 71 Bergisch Gladbach North Rhine-Westphalia 112,712 72 Remscheid North Rhine-Westphalia 112,613 73 Trier Rhineland-Palatinate 112,195 74 Recklinghausen North Rhine-Westphalia 111,734 75 Jena Thuringia 111,191 76 Moers North Rhine-Westphalia 105,287 77 Salzgitter Lower Saxony 104,548 78 Siegen North Rhine-Westphalia 102,560 79 Gütersloh North Rhine-Westphalia 102,393 80 Hildesheim Lower Saxony 101,858 81 Hanau Hesse 101,364 82 Kaiserslautern Rhineland-Palatinate 101,228
Mittelstädte