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General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as Freistaaten ("free states").
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), [f] is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its 16 constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of 357,569 km 2 (138,058 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the ...
The free imperial cities in the 18th century. In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
Germany ( German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and is seventh-largest country by area in the continent. The area of Germany ranked 63rd and covers ...
States of Germany. Germany is composed of 16 constituent states, called Bundesländer (plural form; Bundesland singularly; see map on the right). Further subdivisions. Some German states are subdivided into administrative regions, called Regierungsbezirke. Germany as a whole is further composed of approx. 400 districts, separated into:
Bavaria. / 49.07861°N 11.38556°E / 49.07861; 11.38556. Bavaria, [a] officially the Free State of Bavaria, [b] is a state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of 70,550.19 km 2 (27,239.58 sq mi), it is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany.
The following table lists the 80 cities in Germany with a population of at least 100,000 each on 31 December 2021, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. [2] A city is displayed in bold if it is a state or federal capital, and in italics if it is the most populous city in the state. The table below contains the following ...