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The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. [a] Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration.
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 ...
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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.
The same trend occurred in the New states of Germany after the German reunification: from 7,612 municipalities in 1990 [5] to 2,380 as of 1 January 2024. [2] While in some cases growing cities absorbed neighbouring municipalities, most of these mergers were driven by a need to increase the efficiency and reduce costs of administration. [4]
Since 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany is made up of 16 federal states. This is a container category . Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories .
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 ...
Most of those rural districts are named after this central city as well (e.g. Bamberg and Karlsruhe). Moers is the biggest city in Germany (and at present time the only one with more than 100,000 inhabitants) that is neither an urban district, nor the district seat of its rural district.