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List of cities in Germany by population (only Großstädte, i.e. cities over 100,000 population) Metropolitan regions in Germany; Numbers of cities and towns in the German states: Bavaria: 317 cities and towns; Baden-Württemberg: 316 cities and towns; North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns; Hesse: 191 cities and towns; Saxony: 169 cities ...
Alsace (/ æ l ˈ s æ s /, [5] US also / æ l ˈ s eɪ s, ˈ æ l s æ s /; [6] [7] French: ⓘ) [8] is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland.
General map of Germany Population density in 2022. As defined by the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, a Großstadt (large city) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants. [1] As of today, 80 cities in Germany fulfill this criterion and are listed here.
Below is a list of the historic German language exonyms for towns and village in the Alsace region of France (German: Elsaß) used prior to the annexation of the region by France during the reign of King Louis XIV of France in 1681 and again from 1870 to 1918 and from 1940 to 1945, when Alsace was re-annexed to Germany. Alsatian names used ...
Referring to the continued usage of French in Algeria in the post-colonial period, the writer Kateb Yacine described the French language as the 'spoils of war' (butin de guerre) of Algerians. [55] Local French-language media include El Watan, Le Soir d'Algérie, Liberté, Le Matin and Tout sur l'Algérie. According to a 2010 study by IMMAR ...
the Porta Nigra, the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps; the huge Aula Palatina , a basilica in the original Roman sense, was the 67 m (219.82 ft) long throne hall of Roman emperor Constantine ; it is today used as a Protestant church ; adjacent is the Electoral Palace, Trier ;
location of Aachen in the Meuse (Dutch and German: Maas) river system (Wurm→ Rur→ Meuse→ North Sea)Aachen (/ ˈ ɑː k ən / ⓘ AH-kən, German: ⓘ; Aachen dialect: Oche; Dutch: Aken [ˈaːkə(n)] ⓘ; French: Aix-la-Chapelle; [a] Latin: Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.
Strasbourg (UK: / ˈ s t r æ z b ɜːr ɡ /, [5] US: / ˈ s t r ɑː s b ʊər ɡ, ˈ s t r ɑː z-,-b ɜːr ɡ /; [6] French: ⓘ; German: Straßburg [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊʁk] ⓘ [7] [8]) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, in the historic region of Alsace.