Biggest Cities in Germany

How many of the Germany's 20 most populous cities can you name?

2021 estimates

Population is for the city proper, not the metro area

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First submitted	July 27, 2012
Times taken	292,178
Average score	60.0%
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Population	City
3,677,472	Berlin
1,853,935	Hamburg
1,487,708	Munich
1,073,096	Cologne
759,224	Frankfurt
626,275	Stuttgart
619,477	Düsseldorf
601,866	Leipzig
586,852	Dortmund
579,432	Essen
563,290	Bremen
555,351	Dresden
535,932	Hanover
510,632	Nuremberg
495,152	Duisburg
363,441	Bochum
354,572	Wuppertal
334,002	Bielefeld
331,885	Bonn
317,713	Münster

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101 Comments

+159

Level 26

Aug 8, 2012

Bielefeld doesn't exist ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy

+117

Level ∞

Aug 8, 2012

Well, I've never been there - and I don't know anyone else who ever has. But if I change the quiz THEY will get angry.

Level 77

Oct 5, 2020

Why does people think Bielefeld doesn't exist? This isn't funny for those who live in there.

+11

Level 50

Apr 15, 2024

Bielefeld doesnt exist, im from germany and i know it

+36

Level 79

Oct 25, 2022

I've been there. I can confirm that it does not exist.

Level 56

Oct 16, 2024

How can you go there if it doesnt exist???

Level 68

Oct 26, 2023

Maybe gray it out? Because I missed it for this reason...

Level 65

Mar 31, 2025

I have been there xD

Level 1

Aug 15, 2012

Bielefeld is a City in North Rhine-Westphalia.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld

+73

Level 63

Oct 16, 2012

Follow the link, then reply. ;)

+65

Level 30

May 29, 2016

Someone is evidently in on the cover-up it seems. Also have you ever been there or know someone who has been there? The wiki page was obviously fabricated by the government

Level 77

Oct 5, 2020

It's a real city, OH MY GOSHHHHHHH. If you haven't been there or know someone who has been there, it doesn't mean it's a fake city. If you haven't been to Paris or someone you know hasn't been to Paris, then does that mean Paris doesn't exist?

Level 39

Mar 26, 2024

Even former Chancellor Merkel has publicly questioned the existence of Bielefeld, so I would not be so sure.....

+20

Level 73

Jun 7, 2021

@CambodianQuizzer Yes. Paris does not exist.

Level 41

Feb 6, 2022

Well, the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century English people who hated the French would have liked that. (Sorry Elegant English People and Fabulous French people! I love Y'all!)

+34

Level 78

Jun 23, 2015

The worst thing about it being the fact that when you drive on the Autobahn really close to the city, you see absolutely nothing... Never seen 300k "people" (aliens?) hiding with such efficiency.

Level 39

Sep 6, 2016

thats pretty cool, my school did an exchange to bielefeld in year 9 oo

+55

Level 42

Feb 5, 2018

In year 9? That's a very long time ago

Level 48

Apr 3, 2018

He doesn't mean AD 9, he means British school year 9, or 8th grade in America.

+40

Level 73

Jun 10, 2019

AM259 - do you think that there's any possible chance that riverdale was not being entirely serious...?

+23

Level 80

Jan 15, 2020

JohnOfili, did you have a chance to see some of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest which was taking place nearby in year 9?

Level 59

Sep 22, 2016

thats a satire conspiracy theory lmao

+19

Level 92

Apr 8, 2019

The people of Bielefeld did 9/11.

Level 77

Oct 5, 2020

No they didn't.

Level 71

Oct 30, 2022

How would they if they don't exist ?

Level 54

Apr 1, 2023

The "people" of Bielefeld

Level 48

Feb 27, 2020

I thought I had been there, but maybe I was just convinced that I have.

Level 65

May 1, 2020

that is a massive fake story

Level 42

May 13, 2021

bruh, it does exist...

Level 66

Aug 29, 2021

What!

Level 46

Sep 17, 2022

Lol! We visited Bielefeld (from Australia) just so we could say we'd been to the place that doesn't exist.

Level 60

Feb 22, 2025

You were probably just shown around a town posing as Bielefeld, or you were brainwashed. Look, I even believe to this day that I spent three months in Canberra, and we both know how unreal that idea is!

Level 34

Jan 4, 2024

German Acre?

Level 20

Mar 12, 2024

Can confirm. Bielefeld does not exist, went and checked the city for myself.

Level 34

Dec 30, 2012

15. got first 11 and then 4 more. shld av got 4 more.

Level 22

Jan 12, 2013

17/20 probably because i take german

+21

Level 79

Feb 4, 2013

ich bin ein berliner! ich bin ein hamburger! ich bin ein frankfurter!

+38

Level 79

Dec 19, 2016

You are what you eat.

Level 92

Apr 8, 2019

So many replies here.

Level 82

Feb 19, 2020

Ich bin ein Wiener! (though that’s in Austria) (And Bielefeld does exist)

Level 47

May 13, 2021

uh, erm, ich bin ein springfielder

+10

Level 36

Aug 1, 2014

Ticket to Ride helped a lot.

Level 58

Oct 4, 2014

Tough quiz! Why not trying one of mine?

Level 44

Jun 3, 2019

slick

+10

Level 70

Dec 18, 2014

17/20. Bundesliga + Geography knowledge :)

+11

Level 17

Dec 31, 2014

I guess knowing Bundesliga helps

Level 28

Feb 20, 2015

Can't believe I missed Dortmund. My favourite Bundesliga team.

Level 70

Jul 21, 2015

hummel hummel ...................

Level 80

Dec 19, 2016

The Bielefeld conspiracy is effectively a massive in joke with most of the German population in on the joke.

Level 16

Dec 24, 2016

Never even heard of Duisburg, Bochum, or Wuppertal. Bielefeld and Munster were hard, surprised that Dusseldorf is that far up.

Level 71

Mar 29, 2017

you should come here then. the ruhr-area (Essen and Dortmund also beeing a part of) is quite a fascinating region with great industryculture.

Level 46

Sep 17, 2022

Wuppertal has an amazing suspended railway. Bochum has the world's longest running production of Starlight Express in a purpose built theatre.

Level 76

Apr 29, 2024

Yeah, we have the suspended railway, but that's it more or less. Ah, and Pina Bausch, although she was from Remscheid, but performed mainly in "beautiful" Dobleyou-upper-valley

Level 50

Jan 20, 2017

I got Duisburg, Bielefeld, Bochum, and Wuppertal but not Hamburg, Cologne, Dresden, Bonn, and Leipzig. o_0

Level 66

Mar 1, 2017

Honorable mention: Mannheim

Level 56

Apr 21, 2017

Mannheim: 306000

Level 44

Dec 10, 2017

sat around for a minute trying to think of Bochum, but instead kept thinking of Boston -_-

Level 62

Feb 22, 2018

I missed Münster and I lived there for a year :(

Level 88

Jun 5, 2018

It seems that either the numbers or the order for Liepzig are incorrect. With the currently stated population it should be above Bremen.

Level 76

Apr 29, 2024

Liepzig doesn't exist! And no, this is not another Bielefeld-Verschwörung, it is because it is called Leipzig.

Level 76

Dec 18, 2018

Bochum is the only one I have never heard of (and bielefeld but apparently that doesnt count, and saw it in the other quiz)

Level 37

Feb 24, 2019

All with 2:33 left :D

Level 23

Jul 31, 2019

It's not easy, when you are not from North Rhine-Westphalia

Level 59

Jun 26, 2023

Yeah, definitely helps, big cities seem to pile up here...

Level 68

Aug 29, 2019

Funny, all the flights from/to the United States fly to either Munich or Frankfurt. Can somebody explain what is going on?

+10

Level 57

Sep 21, 2019

Frankfurt is the biggest airport in Germany (and one of the biggest in all of Europe) and Munich is the stereotypical German tourist attraction with Oktoberfest, Lederhosen, Dirndls, Beer and the Neuschwanstein castle not too far away.

Level 89

Feb 19, 2020

Yeah, what Chouyren said. Frankfurt is the financial hub of Germany (and one of the biggest in Europe), so I imagine lots of American corporate types need regular flights in and out.

Level 42

Sep 22, 2019

These stats are a few years old, they should be updated

Level ∞

Feb 26, 2020

What? No they're not.

Level 66

Aug 29, 2021

U r weerd. Stats refresh after you take the quiz

Level 32

Apr 18, 2020

First time:)

Level 48

May 15, 2020

Bielefeld doesnt exist!

Level 77

Oct 5, 2020

Yes it does.

+10

Level 67

Jun 18, 2020

I didn't get Bielefeld, but that's to be expected for a city that doesn't exist

Level 77

Oct 5, 2020

To those who think Bielefeld doesn't exist, it is northeast from Cologne/Dusseldorf. The Bielefeld Conspiracy was supposed to be a joke, now the city is offering 1 million Euros to prove that it doesn't exist.

+13

Level 77

Jun 3, 2021

That's just what *they* would do, since you can't prove a negative!

Level 76

Apr 29, 2024

He is one of "THEM"!!!!!

Level 15

Oct 17, 2021

9/20 I'm not from Germany so I think it's good 👍

Level 35

Jan 13, 2022

16 and not from germany

Level 69

Mar 8, 2022

19/20, I was sitting there thinking, oh well, I did my best, and when the time ran out, I saw that I missed Stuttgart. I swear I guessed it!

Level 58

Apr 30, 2022

Level 43 and the Germany badge :)

Level 19

Aug 31, 2022

Three of the hardest things to say

I was wrong

I need help

and Wu- Wuper- Wuppar- Wuppertal

Level 76

Apr 29, 2024

WOO-PAIR-TALL

Level 67

Jan 16, 2023

I'm guessing Karlsruhe is the city that most narrowly missed out, am I right?

Level 63

Feb 15, 2023

13/20 But i'm from UK, so not bad. Should have got Bremen though!

Level 70

Apr 1, 2023

Bundesliga did not help me:

Schalke, Eintracht and Borussia did not work

Level 46

Apr 1, 2023

Schalke is Dortmund

Eintracht is in Frankfurt

Borussia is in Dortmund

Level 83

Apr 1, 2023

Schalke is in Gelsenkirchen, not Dortmund. And MSV Duisburg, Arminia Bielefeld, Preußen Münster, VFL Bochum, Rot-Weiß Essen, Werder Bremen, Red Bull Leipzig, VFB Stuttgart, Fortuna Düsseldor would all have helped.

Level 34

Feb 17, 2026

he may have been joking i fear

Level 49

May 20, 2023

You need to learn more

Level 49

May 20, 2023

Bundesliga helps me a lot

Level 19

Apr 3, 2024

As a german i See this as an absolute win.

Level 58

May 15, 2024

omg I missed nuremburg I got 19/20 (American)

Level 59

Jun 10, 2024

Surprised that Palma de Mallorca isn't on this list?...

Level 75

Apr 19, 2025

The Germans never really did take over the Balearic Islands.

Level 77

Nov 7, 2024

So apparently, I can't understand a joke. Bielefeld really doesn't exist. (My life was a lie.)

Level 70

Jan 8, 2026

this is what we call character development

Level 22

Jan 15, 2025

Im American I don't know much Abt Germany City ik 2

Level 42

Jun 13, 2025

remove bielefeld, cuz it never existed.

Level 22

Sep 15, 2025

Light work no reaction did it with one hand

Level 55

Oct 8, 2025

Happy to see my little Münster here.

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