Deutschland Local Directory
Browse 1,481 cities, towns, and postal-code areas across Deutschland, organised by region.
About Deutschland
Deutschland is organised into sixteen federal states (Länder), each with its own civic identity and regional cities. This directory lists 1,481 populated places, organised so visitors can browse from country to region to city and locate specific communities or postal-code areas of interest.
The country has a dense network of cities, towns, and rural communities spread across central Europe, and the pages on this site reflect that hierarchical structure. Each region page links to the cities it contains; each city page provides basic facts (coordinates, population where known, postal codes) along with prose context drawn from the underlying open datasets.
The directory maintains a five-digit postal-code system that maps closely to local administrative divisions. Postal codes shown for each place are joined from the GeoNames postal dataset against the city by name and administrative region; coverage varies by country and by data-source quirk. Browse by region below, or jump directly to a featured city.
Content shown in this locale (de-de); place names and labels are localised where available from Wikidata and fall back to the canonical English form otherwise.
Browse by region
- Baden-Württemberg (237 places)
- Bavaria (189 places)
- Berlin (1 places)
- Brandenburg (65 places)
- Bremen (2 places)
- Hamburg (1 places)
- Hesse (157 places)
- Lower Saxony (195 places)
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (25 places)
- North Rhine-Westphalia (332 places)
- Rhineland-Palatinate (46 places)
- Saarland (37 places)
- Saxony (75 places)
- Saxony-Anhalt (35 places)
- Schleswig-Holstein (51 places)
- Thuringia (33 places)
Most populous cities
The largest urban centres in Deutschland by recorded population.
- Berlin — 3,782,202 residents
- Hamburg — 1,910,160 residents
- Kreisfreie Stadt München — 1,185,421 residents
- Köln — 1,024,621 residents
- Frankfurt am Main — 775,790 residents
- Düsseldorf — 631,217 residents
- Leipzig — 619,879 residents
- Stuttgart — 612,663 residents
- Essen — 593,085 residents
- Dortmund — 588,462 residents
- Bremen — 577,026 residents
- Dresden — 566,222 residents
Places with very few people
Tiny settlements you might never have heard of — communities with only a handful of recorded residents.
- Eisenberg Rhineland-Palatinate — 10,006 residents
- Diedorf Bavaria — 10,006 residents
- Garching bei München Bavaria — 10,025 residents
- Ainring Bavaria — 10,028 residents
- Weil im Schönbuch Baden-Württemberg — 10,037 residents
- Goldbach Bavaria — 10,044 residents
- Dießen am Ammersee Bavaria — 10,050 residents
- Roßtal Bavaria — 10,052 residents
Places with curious names
A selection of places with unusually long, hyphenated, or otherwise distinctive names worth a second look.
- Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 39 characters long
- Zeulenroda-Triebes Thuringia hyphenated name
- Zella-Mehlis Thuringia hyphenated name
- Leinfelden-Echterdingen Baden-Württemberg 23 characters long
- Zweibrücken Rhineland-Palatinate rare initial letter
- Zülpich North Rhine-Westphalia rare initial letter
- Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Baden-Württemberg 24 characters long
- Quakenbrück Lower Saxony rare initial letter