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Biggest Cities in East Germany (with map)

Can you name the 15 biggest cities by population in the former country of East Germany, circa 1988?
East Germany - Major Cities (Wikipedia)
Quiz by Jiaozira
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Last updated: January 23, 2021
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First submittedJanuary 22, 2021
Times taken617
Average score66.7%
Rating5.00
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Stadt
1,20 m
East Berlin
556 k
Leipzig
520 k
Dresden
314 k
Karl-Marx-Stadt
290 k
Magdeburg
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Stadt
253 k
Rostock
236 k
Halle/Saale
220 k
Erfurt
142 k
Potsdam
134 k
Gera
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Stadt
130 k
Schwerin
128 k
Cottbus
121 k
Zwickau
108 k
Jena
103 k
Dessau
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13 Comments
1ProximaCentauri
+2
Level 54
Jan 22, 2021
Awesome! Got only 5 though. Did you draw the FLAG YOURSLEF?
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Jan 22, 2021
Thank you, and no I just drew a border around it.
1ProximaCentauri
+1
Level 54
Jan 22, 2021
oh.
GeoPhilia
+2
Level 56
Jan 22, 2021
Another fantastic quiz! Got 8 this time. I thought that Munich was also part of East Germany for some reason, but looking at a complete map, it's not really East Germany, but North East Germany...
Jiaozira
+3
Level 71
Jan 22, 2021
Thank you very much! I am only glad that East Germany didn't control any more territory and populace than it already did. It was an unfortunate era indeed.
ObamaPrism69
+1
Level 29
Aug 6, 2023
I've been to one of the former Stasi Prisons in Erfurt a few weeks ago. Now it's a pretty cool museum where you can learn about life in the GDR, the peaceful revolution of 1989 and, of course, how people lived in the prison. It's stunning what abysmal conditions the people had to endure there.

One case that really shocked me was when teeanagers in neighboring Weimar were charged 6 months for graffiti that said "Macht aus dem Staat Gurkensalat" ("turn the state into cucumber salad").

When you think about it: people who did basically nothing by democratic standards where imprisoned and treated like sub-humans just over 30 years ago in the middle of Europe...

ThatOnePunk
+3
Level 68
Jan 23, 2021
Great quiz! I like how you used the older names of the cities. Nitpick: Description should say "country" instead of "county" :)
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Jan 23, 2021
Thank you! I prefer to use the proper name for that time period, as the census data is from 1988 (Chemnitz is accepted for Karl-Marx-Stadt, while other name changes weren't so drastic, such as Halle/Saale to Halle (Saale)) This proved to be a minor nightmare when I was making my Austria-Hungary version, however! Thanks for catching the typo, it has been fixed :)
JFM01
+2
Level 55
Nov 29, 2021
I'm from Zwickau I better should know them all.
MCdoesgeography
+2
Level 71
Feb 4, 2023
Crazy to see how the population went down. It's even worse ruraly.
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Feb 4, 2023
It would be fun to compare the population differences between the past and present on this quiz (assuming all the city borders are fairly comparable to today).
ObamaPrism69
+2
Level 29
Aug 6, 2023
Nah, the borders of Erfurt, Gera, Leipzig and Dresden changed a bit due to suburbanisation.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Aug 6, 2023
That's good to know, this is why city comparisons are very difficult to make at least according to city boundaries.
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