| Rank | Name | State | Pop. | Rank | Name | State | Pop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rhine-Ruhr  Berlin |
1 | Rhine-Ruhr | North Rhine-Westphalia | 11,199,073 | 11 | Chemnitz | Saxony | 867,051 |  Rhine-Main  Stuttgart |
| 2 | Berlin | Berlin | 4,661,925 | 12 | Hanover | Lower Saxony | 807,181 | ||
| 3 | Rhine-Main | Hesse | 3,200,201 | 13 | Dresden | Saxony | 799,317 | ||
| 4 | Stuttgart | Baden-Württemberg | 3,044,428 | 14 | Saar | Saarland | 762,791 | ||
| 5 | Munich | Bavaria | 2,415,964 | 15 | Bremen | Bremen | 668,074 | ||
| 6 | Hamburg | Hamburg | 2,399,250 | 16 | Aachen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 663,371 | ||
| 7 | Rhine-Neckar | Baden-Württemberg | 1,426,056 | 17 | Karlsruhe | Baden-Württemberg | 612,031 | ||
| 8 | Nuremberg | Bavaria | 1,247,309 | 18 | Augsburg | Bavaria | 554,118 | ||
| 9 | Leipzig | Saxony | 1,068,429 | 19 | Freiburg im Breisgau | Baden-Württemberg | 339,767 | ||
| 10 | Bielefeld | North Rhine-Westphalia | 941,933 | 20 | Kassel | Hesse | 335,358 | ||
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