Germany

Administrative units

code	land	capital	area (sq.km.)	population 1987-05-25 census	population 1997-12-31 admin.	population 2007-12-31 admin.
source: statistical bureaus of the Länder and of the State of Germany.
de-08 »	Baden-Württemberg	Stuttgart	35,741.70	9,286,387	10,396,610	10,749,755
de-09 »	Bayern	München	70,551.58	10,902,643	12,055,123	12,520,332
de-11	Berlin	Berlin	891.67	3,260,000	3,445,033	3,416,255
de-12 »	Brandenburg	Potsdam	29,480.33	2,665,000	2,563,407	2,535,737
de-04 »	Bremen	Bremen	404.28	660,084	676,069	663,082
de-02	Hamburg	Hamburg	755.25	1,592,770	1,707,356	1,770,629
de-06 »	Hessen	Wiesbaden	21,114.79	5,507,777	6,031,350	6,072,555
de-13 »	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Schwerin	23,185.40	1,971,000	1,812,506	1,679,682
de-03 »	Niedersachsen	Hannover	47,625.43	7,162,103	7,830,274	7,971,684
de-05 »	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Düsseldorf	34,086.51	16,711,845	17,961,101	17,996,621
de-07 »	Rheinland-Pfalz	Mainz	19,854.64	3,630,823	4,010,059	4,045,643
de-10 »	Saarland	Saarbrücken	2,568.64	1,055,660	1,082,487	1,036,598
de-14 »	Sachsen	Dresden	18,418.08	5,032,000	4,536,172	4,220,200
de-15 »	Sachsen-Anhalt	Magdeburg	20,447.00	3,008,000	2,714,267	2,412,472
de-01 »	Schleswig-Holstein	Kiel	15,799.09	2,554,241	2,749,383	2,837,373
de-16 »	Thüringen	Erfurt	16,172.10	2,718,000	2,484,538	2,289,219
	total		357,130.39	82,051,698	82,501,000	82,217,837

name	population 1992-12-31 admin.	population 2000-12-31 admin.	population 2007-12-31 admin.
Berlin	3,465,748	3,382,169	3,416,255
Hamburg	1,688,785	1,715,392	1,770,629
München [EN Munich]	1,256,638	1,210,223	1,311,573
Köln [EN Cologne]	960,631	962,884	995,397
Frankfurt am Main	663,952	646,550	659,021
Essen	627,269	595,243	582,140
Dortmund	600,669	588,994	586,909
Stuttgart	599,415	582,443	597,176
Düsseldorf	578,135	569,364	581,122
Bremen	554,377	539,403	547,769
Hannover	523,627	515,001	518,069
Duisburg	539,094	514,915	496,665
Leipzig	496,647	493,208	510,512
Nürnberg	500,198	488,400	503,110
Dresden	481,676	477,807	507,513
Bochum	400,356	391,147	381,542
Wuppertal	388,102	366,434	356,420
Bielefeld	324,287	321,758	324,912
Mannheim	318,446	307,730	309,795
Bonn	298,227	302,247	316,416
Gelsenkirchen	295,368	278,695	264,765
Karlsruhe	279,329	277,204	288,917
Wiesbaden	268,069	270,109	275,849
Münster	267,072	265,609	272,951
Mönchengladbach	265,069	263,014	260,018
Augsburg	264,852	254,982	262,992
Aachen	245,627	244,386	259,030
source: statistical bureaus of the Länder and of the State of Germany.