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100 Biggest Cities of Germany at Unification on a Map

Not to be confused with German reunification in 1990, the modern German nation-state was first unified on January 18, 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War. Can you name the 100 most populous cities in the German Empire in 1871?
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Sources used for data from the 1871 census listed in this Pastebin.
Some of these cities no longer exist and have since been merged into larger cities.
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Population
City
826,341
Berlin
240,251
Hamburg
207,997
Breslau
(Wrocław)
177,089
Dresden
169,693
Munich
129,233
Cologne
112,092
Königsberg
(Kaliningrad)
106,925
Leipzig
91,623
Stuttgart
91,040
Frankfurt am Main
88,975
Danzig
(Gdańsk)
87,626
Hanover
85,654
Straßburg
(Strasbourg)
84,401
Magdeburg
83,214
Nuremberg
82,969
Bremen
76,280
Stettin
(Szczecin)
74,449
Barmen
74,146
Aachen
74,102
Altona
71,384
Elberfeld
69,365
Düsseldorf
68,229
Chemnitz
57,883
Braunschweig
57,105
Crefeld
(Krefeld)
56,374
Posen
(Poznań)
53,902
Mainz
52,892
Mülhausen
(Mulhouse)
52,620
Halle an der Saale
51,513
Essen
51,332
Metz
51,220
Augsburg
46,378
Cassel
(Kassel)
44,420
Dortmund
Population
City
43,834
Potsdam
43,616
Erfurt
43,214
Frankfurt an der Oder
42,200
Görlitz
40,005
Würzburg
39,743
Lübeck
39,606
Mannheim
36,582
Karlsruhe
35,450
Wiesbaden
33,800
Darmstadt
31,764
Kiel
31,164
Elbing
(Elbląg)
30,980
Rostock
30,533
Duisburg
29,185
Regensburg
28,748
Koblenz
27,740
Bromberg
(Bydgoszcz)
27,322
Zwickau
26,833
Schwerin
26,731
Stralsund
26,354
Gladbach
(Mönchengladbach)
26,290
Ulm
26,030
Bonn
25,822
Brandenburg an der Havel
25,738
Bamberg
25,419
Halberstadt
24,821
Münster
24,668
Freiburg im Breisgau
24,577
Fürth
23,355
Plauen
23,311
Colmar
23,308
Osnabrück
23,136
Liegnitz
(Legnica)
Population
City
22,689
Offenbach am Main
22,036
Glauchau
22,003
Remscheid
21,834
Bielefeld
21,673
Freiberg
21,442
Trier
21,412
Guben
21,321
Flensburg
21,270
Nordhausen
21,192
Bochum
20,801
Hildesheim
20,600
Gotha
20,412
Neustadt-Magdeburg
20,294
Hanau
20,251
Tilsit
(Sovetsk)
19,983
Heidelberg
19,966
Altenburg
19,803
Pforzheim
19,536
Königshütte
(Chorzów)
19,518
Charlottenburg
19,515
Mühlhausen
19,367
Neisse
(Nysa)
19,187
Meerane
19,008
Spandau
19,003
Memel
(Klaipėda)
18,955
Heilbronn
18,927
Cottbus
18,558
Viersen
18,551
Landsberg an der Warthe
(Gorzów Wielkopolski)
18,517
Wesel
18,261
Glogau
(Głogów)
17,941
Esslingen am Neckar
17,896
Kaiserslautern
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2 Comments
Marli5
+4
Level 50
May 15, 2026
76/100 as a german

Great quiz!

I never heard of these 4 „smaller“ cities in saxony😅

Dekkie
+1
Level 56
May 15, 2026
Thanks! Some places have remained relatively stagnant.
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