Almost 37 million people live in Germany’s 300 largest cities

Germany is a country of thousands of medium-sized towns and cities. Only three cities, Berlin, Hamburg and München (Munich), are Millionenstädte - cities with a population of more than one million. Another nine German cities have a population of more than 500,000 people.

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- Germany’s territory covers about 137,850 sqm - slightly larger than the US state of Montana, just to put it in perspective for the many Americans in this community.

- The largest city is the capital Berlin with ~3.4 million inhabitants (Hamburg: 1.76 mio, Munich: 1.35).

- Germany consists of 16 states, 3 of which are city states (Hamburg, Berlin, ( Read more... )

I wanted to ask to those of you who have experienced life in Germany - how would you describe it ( Read more... )

German surnames from Müller to Keller

The list that follows ranks the 50 most common family names in Germany. It was produced by surveying names found in German telephone books. Attached is the English meaning for each name. The most common German surname is Müller, which means "miller" - it points to their actual occupation. Keller on the other ( Read more... )

German (Deutsch) is spoken by an estimated 126 million people. Most of them are found in Germany (Deutschland), which has about 82 million German-speakers. That leaves about 44 million others. Where are they?

Austria (Österreich):
Germany's neighbor to the south has a population of about 8 million. 85% of Austrians are Roman Catholic and German- ( Read more... )

i have some questions for those of you now living in germany, regarding lebenshaltungskosten (cost of living). i havent lived in germany for a few years now and would like to get an update on this. its clear that prices vary greatly between the different regions. but how much? maybe we will find out ( Read more... )

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GERMAN CITIES WITH POPULATION OVER 250,000 
(500,000+ bold)

Augsburg 265,000
Berlin 3,466,000
Bielefeld 324,000
Bochum 400,000
Bonn 298,000
Braunschweig 258,000
Bremen 554,000
Chemnitz 284,000
Dortmund 601,000
Dresden 482,000
Düsseldorf 578,000
Duisburg 539,000
Essen 627,000
Frankfurt-Main 664,000
Gelsenkirchen 295,000
Halle 300,000
Hamburg 1,689, ( Read more... )

Should I use "du" or "Sie"?
... is a question that language students ask frequently. Being German, I get asked a lot by people how this really works so I decided to make a post about it. :)

German Titles and Forms of AddressProverbial German formality has changed quite a bit over the years. This is particularly true of the formal "Sie" and ( Read more... )

In 2007, Germany's population was 82.5 million, essentially unchanged from the year before. The World Bank projects that its population will decline to about 80.3 million by 2015 due to low birth rate ( Read more... )