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Biggest Cities of the Hanseatic League with a Map

With the help of a map, can you name the most populous Hanseatic cities with an estimated population of over 5,000 in the mid-15th century?
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Not including cities with Hanseatic trading posts (e.g. Novgorod, London, Bruges, etc.)
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Population
City
40k
Cologne
25k
Danzig
(Gdańsk)
22k
Magdeburg
20k
Lübeck
18k
Braunschweig
18k
Breslau
(Wrocław)
16k
Hamburg
16k
Kraków
15k
Bremen
15k
Erfurt
13k
Stralsund
12k
Rostock
11k
Münster
Population
City
10k
Königsberg
(Kaliningrad)
10k
Riga
9k
Dortmund
9k
Goslar
9k
Lüneburg
9k
Mühlhausen
9k
Nijmegen
9k
Soest
9k
Stettin
(Szczecin)
8k
Elbing
(Elbląg)
8k
Groningen
8k
Hildesheim
8k
Wismar
Population
City
7k
Berlin
7k
Frankfurt an der Oder
7k
Halberstadt
7k
Roermond
7k
Thorn
(Toruń)
7k
Visby
6k
Deventer
6k
Dinant
6k
Göttingen
6k
Kampen
6k
Stendal
6k
Stockholm
Population
City
6k
Wesel
5k
Arnhem
5k
Einbeck
5k
Greifswald
5k
Halle
5k
Hanover
5k
Kolberg
(Kołobrzeg)
5k
Lemgo
5k
Nordhausen
5k
Osnabrück
5k
Zutphen
5k
Zwolle
3 Comments
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Level 55
Jul 17, 2024
It should be noted that the inclusion of certain cities is based on the German Wikipedia article on Hanseatic Cities. This is mainly because the article on English Wikipedia is incomplete.
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Level 68
Jul 17, 2024
Interesting to see how some of these cities went on to become some of the most relevant cities in their countries with hundrets of thousand or even a few million inhabitants while others faded into obscurity and have about the same size as they did in 1500
+4
Level 55
Jul 18, 2024
Dinant is the smallest one on here currently at 13k. The likely cause for it not growing much after this was the sacking of the city shortly after the given time frame in 1466.

Its city walls were destroyed and its people were deliberately forbidden from rebuilding the walls until 1472 and supposedly weren't even allowed to straighten the stones of the walls until the death of Charles the Bold in 1477.

After this, its population count would continue hovering around 5,000 people until as late as the 19th century.