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Biggest Axis-Occupied Cities of Europe in WWII on a Map

With the help of a map, can you name the biggest European cities that were controlled by the Axis powers at their peak expansion in late 1942 during World War II?
Click on the map to zoom in. This might help with dots that overlap each other.
Sources used for population estimates listed in this Pastebin.
Both historical and modern-day names accepted.
Not including Finland, which was a co-belligerent, but never officially part of the Axis.
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Population
City
4,475,000
Berlin
2,750,000
Paris
1,700,000
Vienna
1,500,000
Hamburg
1,400,000
Rome
1,350,000
Warsaw
1,200,000
Milan
1,150,000
Budapest
1,000,000
Bucharest
976,000
Prague
920,000
Naples
890,000
Copenhagen
801,000
Amsterdam
760,000
Munich
670,000
Turin
665,000
Litzmannstadt
648,000
Cologne
640,000
Genoa
640,000
Leipzig
625,000
Marseille
624,000
Rotterdam
615,000
Breslau
590,000
Essen
575,000
Dresden
520,000
The Hague
495,000
Athens
490,000
Frankfurt am Main
480,000
Dortmund
465,000
Stuttgart
460,000
Lyon
445,000
Düsseldorf
435,000
Palermo
420,000
Hanover
420,000
Sofia
Population
City
380,000
Nuremberg
375,000
Zagreb
370,000
Duisburg
365,000
Bremen
350,000
Königsberg
350,000
Riga
350,000
Wuppertal
345,000
Florence
326,000
Posen
322,000
(Helsinki)
319,000
Krakau
310,000
Magdeburg
305,000
Belgrade
305,000
Kiev
300,000
Bologna
300,000
Odessa
295,000
Chemnitz
290,000
Gelsenkirchen
285,000
Venice
283,000
Danzig
280,000
Bochum
280,000
Brünn
280,000
Dnepropetrovsk
280,000
Oslo
270,000
Minsk
269,000
Stettin
260,000
Catania
258,000
Antwerp
255,000
Bordeaux
255,000
Trieste
250,000
Piraeus
245,000
Kiel
245,000
Mannheim
240,000
Toulouse
Population
City
235,000
Lemberg
225,000
Bari
225,000
Nice
215,000
Thessaloniki
207,000
Graz
200,000
Halle
200,000
Kassel
200,000
Messina
195,000
Nantes
185,000
Braunschweig
185,000
Brussels
185,000
Saint-Étienne
185,000
Straßburg
178,000
Mariupol
175,000
Rostov-on-Don
175,000
Stalino
170,000
Augsburg
170,000
Kharkov
170,000
Oberhausen
170,000
Utrecht
170,000
Verona
168,000
Lille
165,000
Karlsruhe
160,000
Ghent
158,000
Liège
155,000
Le Havre
150,000
Krefeld
150,000
Padua
150,000
Taranto
150,000
Wiesbaden
146,000
Vilnius
145,000
Erfurt
145,000
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9 Comments
jdmercia
+6
Level 85
Oct 23, 2024
Top quality as always !
Dekkie
+2
Level 55
Oct 23, 2024
Thank you!
MasterRocket
+4
Level 70
Oct 23, 2024
Nominated! Great Map. I always forget certain large german cities that I really shouldn't😅
Dekkie
+3
Level 55
Oct 23, 2024
Thanks!
Deuteronomius
+3
Level 68
Oct 23, 2024
Surprisingly Germany and Italy-heavy
Dekkie
+7
Level 55
Oct 24, 2024
A lot of the Soviet cities were evacuated or/and destroyed, which is why some of the population counts may seem low. Kyiv for example had a pre-war population count of over 900,000 before dropping to nearly 300,000 as seen here.
Ampersandwich
+1
Level 50
Oct 31, 2024
Oh my... I know people get desensitized to numbers but that's really severe, coming from someone who likes history
Deuteronomius
+3
Level 68
Oct 23, 2024
Can somebody tell me why Lille is in Belgium? Did the Nazis plan to give northern France to Belgium? Thought they kept the borders except Elsass etc.
Deuteronomius
+5
Level 68
Oct 23, 2024
Found it:

The German High Command in Paris had no authority over the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments, which were instead incorporated into Belgium under the purview of the Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France, based in Brussels. Germany's intent was to weaken France by depriving it of two departments that contained numerous sources of wealth (e.g., spinning mills, steel mills, mines, and paper mills). The Military Administration's field headquarters, OFK 670, in Lille was based at the Lille Chamber of Commerce and led by General Heinrich Niehoff.

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