FUNCTIONAL URBAN AREAS IN OECD COUNTRIES: GERMANY Notes: This map is for illustrative purposes and is without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory covered by these maps. The functional urban areas identified with the methodology described in the book Redefining urban : A new way to measure metropolitan areas, OECD Publishing 2012 are here listed by size, according to four classes: Small urban areas, with population between 50,000 and 200,000 Medium-sized urban areas, with population between 200,000 and 500,000 Metropolitan areas, with population between 500,000 and 1.5 million Large metropolitan areas, with population above 1.5 million Each functional urban area is an economic unit characterised by densely inhabited city core and commuting zone whose labour market is highly integrated with the cores. The geographic building blocks to define urban areas are the municipalities (e.g. LAU2 in European countries). The city cores are defined using the population grid from the global dataset Landscan, referred to circa year 2000. Polycentric cores and the hinterlands of the functional areas are identified on the basis of commuting data (travel from home-to-work) referred to circa year 2000 (Census year). The list of functional urban areas takes into account the results of the consultation with the European National
Statistical Institutes launched by Eurostat in June 2011 on the definition of cities and by the OECD with Delegates from the Working Party on Territorial Indicators. This list of functional urban areas may be reviewed on the basis of additional comments provided by Countries. The OECD Metropolitan Areas Database which provides a set of economic, environmental, social and demographic estimated indicators on the 281 OECD metropolitan areas (functional urban areas with 500 000 or more inhabitants). Additionally, interactive maps, histograms and summary profiles of each metropolitan area are available on the MetroeXplorer tool.
Country ID on the map Name FUA Class type Total population (2000) Total population (2014) Germany DE001 Berlin Large metropolitan areas 4,330,906 4,399,542 Germany DE002 Hamburg Large metropolitan areas 2,930,229 3,008,841 Germany DE003 Munich Large metropolitan areas 2,569,181 2,965,871 Germany DE005 Frankfurt Large metropolitan areas 2,482,458 2,533,311 Germany DE007 Stuttgart Large metropolitan areas 1,929,060 1,965,942 Germany DE004 Cologne Large metropolitan areas 1,849,393 1,926,073 Germany DE011 Düsseldorf Metropolitan areas 1,430,864 1,427,823 Germany DE502 Mannheim Metropolitan areas 1,269,535 1,230,276 Germany DE013 Hanover Metropolitan areas 1,237,169 1,217,511 Germany DE014 Nuremberg Metropolitan areas 1,161,947 1,169,367 Germany DE012 Bremen Metropolitan areas 1,022,279 1,027,192 Germany DE010 Dortmund Metropolitan areas 872,550 804,678 Germany DE008 Leipzig Metropolitan areas 860,870 830,318 Germany DE501 Duisburg Metropolitan areas 854,963 793,477 Germany DE009 Dresden Metropolitan areas 815,271 847,600 Germany DE006 Essen Metropolitan areas 797,824 741,301 Germany DE034 Bonn Metropolitan areas 735,786 750,370 Germany DE015 Bochum Metropolitan areas 709,217 622,463 Germany DE035 Karlsruhe Metropolitan areas 667,643 695,098 Germany DE040 Saarbrücken Metropolitan areas 637,685 570,479 Germany DE507 Aachen Metropolitan areas 590,720 575,876 Germany DE033 Augsburg Metropolitan areas 578,689 606,286 Germany DE504 Münster Metropolitan areas 511,253 559,514 Germany DE027 Freiburg im Breisgau Metropolitan areas 506,143 536,578 Germany DE513 Kassel Medium-sized urban areas 498,434 473,642 Germany DE017 Bielefeld Medium-sized urban areas 476,751 485,105 Germany DE505 Chemnitz Medium-sized urban areas 476,213 410,753 Germany DE039 Kiel Medium-sized urban areas 469,925 470,660 Germany DE019 Magdeburg Medium-sized urban areas 445,538 401,288 Germany DE025 Darmstadt Medium-sized urban areas 439,605 445,885 Germany DE020 Wiesbaden Medium-sized urban areas 437,548 432,283 Germany DE037 Mainz Medium-sized urban areas 434,853 475,452 Germany DE546 Wuppertal Medium-sized urban areas 426,605 384,608 Germany DE506 Braunschweig Medium-sized urban areas 407,610 397,531 Germany DE532 Ulm Medium-sized urban areas 403,070 412,302 Germany DE018 Halle an der Saale Medium-sized urban areas 401,819 347,427 Germany DE517 Osnabrück Medium-sized urban areas 388,953 370,118 Germany DE526 Wolfsburg Medium-sized urban areas 384,679 364,651 Germany DE529 Heilbronn Medium-sized urban areas 372,391 372,093 Germany DE028 Regensburg Medium-sized urban areas 371,089 403,399 Germany DE522 Heidelberg Medium-sized urban areas 370,586 383,789 Germany DE036 Mönchengladbach Medium-sized urban areas 369,071 356,106 Germany DE524 Würzburg Medium-sized urban areas 367,639 358,293 Germany DE510 Lübeck Medium-sized urban areas 361,019 356,936 Germany DE508 Krefeld Medium-sized urban areas 337,209 304,938 Germany DE534 Ingolstadt Medium-sized urban areas 334,389 364,288 Germany DE032 Erfurt Medium-sized urban areas 329,750 312,827 Germany DE042 Koblenz Medium-sized urban areas 327,267 320,877 Germany DE523 Paderborn Medium-sized urban areas 318,130 325,157 Germany DE043 Rostock Medium-sized urban areas 311,887 313,284 Germany DE068 Sindelfingen Medium-sized urban areas 307,431 306,122 Germany DE520 Oldenburg Medium-sized urban areas 300,510 318,304 Germany DE021 Göttingen Medium-sized urban areas 287,679 258,728
Germany DE545 Erlangen Medium-sized urban areas 283,777 291,964 Germany DE503 Gelsenkirchen Medium-sized urban areas 281,095 249,294 Germany DE511 Hagen Medium-sized urban areas 270,482 238,317 Germany DE044 Kaiserslautern Medium-sized urban areas 264,132 247,163 Germany DE026 Trier Medium-sized urban areas 258,722 278,725 Germany DE540 Siegen Medium-sized urban areas 252,331 226,471 Germany DE533 Pforzheim Medium-sized urban areas 247,648 243,262 Germany DE057 Giessen Medium-sized urban areas 240,587 239,566 Germany DE537 Reutlingen Medium-sized urban areas 238,504 235,737 Germany DE061 Aschaffenburg Medium-sized urban areas 234,964 234,274 Germany DE062 Bamberg Medium-sized urban areas 230,170 232,948 Germany DE509 Oberhausen Medium-sized urban areas 223,514 205,176 Germany DE065 Fulda Medium-sized urban areas 221,483 218,442 Germany DE527 Bremerhaven Medium-sized urban areas 217,937 196,781 Germany DE514 Hamm Medium-sized urban areas 215,493 203,321 Germany DE544 Zwickau Medium-sized urban areas 213,651 177,010 Germany DE542 Hildesheim Medium-sized urban areas 208,500 191,824 Germany DE539 Cottbus Medium-sized urban areas 207,380 165,129 Germany DE077 Schweinfurt Medium-sized urban areas 207,218 195,743 Germany DE519 Leverkusen Medium-sized urban areas 207,207 203,967 Germany DE530 Remscheid Small urban areas 199,242 176,221 Germany DE053 Marburg Small urban areas 194,729 181,268 Germany DE059 Bayreuth Small urban areas 192,288 181,737 Germany DE081 Passau Small urban areas 185,755 179,271 Germany DE050 Tübingen Small urban areas 183,678 189,252 Germany DE052 Flensburg Small urban areas 180,457 179,408 Germany DE031 Schwerin Small urban areas 180,219 155,899 Germany DE535 Gera Small urban areas 175,447 137,517 Germany DE022 Mülheim Small urban areas 173,549 164,180 Germany DE069 Rosenheim Small urban areas 171,394 178,269 Germany DE067 Landshut Small urban areas 170,186 187,602 Germany DE516 Solingen Small urban areas 166,110 150,876 Germany DE051 Villingen-Schwenningen Small urban areas 165,590 161,269 Germany DE060 Celle Small urban areas 163,733 157,679 Germany DE058 Lüneburg Small urban areas 162,338 174,575 Germany DE525 Recklinghausen Small urban areas 156,525 142,551 Germany DE536 Salzgitter Small urban areas 155,445 132,172 Germany DE048 Wilhelmshaven Small urban areas 151,690 135,295 Germany DE082 Dessau-Roßlau Small urban areas 146,104 113,609 Germany DE045 Iserlohn Small urban areas 143,672 133,975 Germany DE079 Wetzlar Small urban areas 143,478 136,340 Germany DE064 Neubrandenburg Small urban areas 138,991 113,379 Germany DE072 Friedrichshafen Small urban areas 137,987 144,350 Germany DE066 Kempten (Allgäu) Small urban areas 137,523 144,475 Germany DE073 Offenburg Small urban areas 135,214 142,929 Germany DE029 Frankfurt (Oder) Small urban areas 119,851 94,184 Germany DE054 Konstanz Small urban areas 119,418 120,722 Germany DE055 Neumünster Small urban areas 118,726 115,937 Germany DE063 Plauen Small urban areas 112,887 95,016 Germany DE056 Brandenburg an der Havel Small urban areas 105,195 90,885 Germany DE543 Witten Small urban areas 104,002 93,274 Germany DE071 Stralsund Small urban areas 94,192 85,052 Germany DE030 Weimar Small urban areas 93,168 90,971 Germany DE074 Görlitz Small urban areas 91,960 74,884
Germany DE078 Greifswald Small urban areas 90,566 92,431 Germany DE080 Speyer Small urban areas 78,791 81,104 Total functional urban areas 52,474,180 52,136,305 Share of national population in functional urban areas 63.9% 64.6% Number of functional urban areas 109 Note: The class type has been computed based on 2001 population data. The population by metropolitan area has been computed based on the last population census. The functional urban areas identified with the methodology described in the book Redefining urban : A new way to measure metropolitan areas, OECD Publishing 2012 are here listed by size, according to four classes: Small urban areas, with population between 50,000 and 200,000 Medium-sized urban areas, with population between 200,000 and 500,000 Metropolitan areas, with population between 500,000 and 1.5 million Large metropolitan areas, with population above 1.5 million