=PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE HEART OF BERLIN, SHOWING THE MUSEUM OF ART,
LUSTGARTEN, NEW CATHEDRAL, ROYAL PALACE, AND NATIONAL MONUMENT.=]
=Chief Cities.=--German cities and towns are officially distinguished as
large cities (with one hundred thousand inhabitants and upwards); medium
cities (twenty thousand to one hundred thousand inhabitants); small
cities (five thousand to twenty thousand inhabitants); and country towns
(two thousand to five thousand inhabitants). According to the latest
census, the population of cities over fifty thousand was as follows:
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CITIES | STATE | LATEST
| |POPULATION
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Berlin |Prussia | 2,070,695
Hamburg |Hamburg | 932,166
Munich |Bavaria | 595,053
Leipzig |Saxony | 587,635
Dresden |Saxony, K. | 546,882
Cologne |Prussia | 516,167
Breslau |Prussia | 511,891
Frankfort-on-Main |Prussia | 414,598
Dusseldorf |Prussia | 357,702
Nürnberg |Bavaria | 332,651
Charlottenburg |Prussia | 305,181
Hanover |Prussia | 302,384
Essen |Prussia | 294,629
Chemnitz |Saxony, K. | 287,340
Stuttgart |Württemberg | 285,589
Magdeburg |Prussia | 279,685
Bremen |Bremen | 246,827
Königsberg |Prussia | 245,853
Rixdorf |Prussia | 237,378
Stettin |Prussia | 236,145
Duisburg |Prussia | 229,478
Dortmund |Prussia | 214,333
Kiel |Prussia | 211,044
Mannheim |Baden | 193,379
Halle-on-Saale |Prussia | 180,551
Strassburg |Alsace-Lorraine| 178,913
Schoeneberg |Prussia | 172,902
Altona |Prussia | 172,533
Danzig |Prussia | 170,347
Elberfeld |Prussia | 170,118
Gelsenkirchen |Prussia | 169,530
Barmen |Prussia | 169,201
Posen |Prussia | 156,696
Aachen |Prussia | 156,044
Cassel |Prussia | 153,078
Brunswick |Brunswick | 143,534
Bochum |Prussia | 136,916
Karlsruhe |Baden | 134,161
Crefeld |Saxony, K. | 129,412
Plauen |Prussia | 121,104
Mülheim-on-Ruhr |Prussia | 112,602
Erfurt |Prussia | 111,461
Mainz |Hesse | 110,634
Wiesbaden |Prussia | 109,033
Augsburg |Bavaria | 102,293
Lübeck |Lübeck | 98,620
Mülhausen |Alsace-Lorraine| 95,041
Münster |Prussia | 90,283
Oberhausen |Prussia | 89,897
Hagen |Prussia | 88,625
Bonn |Prussia | 87,967
Darmstadt |Hesse | 87,085
Görlitz |Prussia | 85,790
Spandau |Prussia | 84,919
Würzburg |Bavaria | 84,387
Freiburg |Baden | 83,328
Ludwigshafen-on-Rhine|Bavaria | 83,297
Bielefeld |Prussia | 78,334
Offenbach |Hesse | 75,593
Linden |Prussia | 73,352
Zwickau |Saxony, K. | 73,538
Königshütte |Prussia | 72,642
Remscheid |Prussia | 72,176
Pforzheim |Baden | 69,084
Metz |Alsace-Lorraine| 68,445
Frankfort on O. |Prussia | 68,230
Beuthen |Prussia | 67,718
Harburg |Prussia | 67,024
Gleiwitz |Prussia | 66,983
Liegnitz |Prussia | 66,620
Fürth |Bavaria | 66,535
München Gladbach |Prussia | 66,410
Osnabrück |Prussia | 65,956
Rostock |Meckl.-Sch. | 65,377
Potsdam |Prussia | 62,224
Flensburg |Prussia | 60,931
Elbing |Prussia | 58,631
Bromberg |Prussia | 57,585
Dessau |Anhalt | 56,606
Koblenz |Prussia | 56,478
Ulm |Württemberg | 55,817
Kaiserslautern |Bavaria | 53,803
Brandenburg-on-Havel |Prussia | 53,595
Mülheim-on-Rhein |Prussia | 53,428
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