Metropolitan regions in Germany

The metropolitan regions in Germany are eleven[1] densely populated areas in the Federal Republic of Germany. They comprise the major German cities and their surrounding catchment areas and form the political, commercial and cultural centres of the country. The eleven metropolitan regions in Germany were organised into political units for planning purposes.

Using a narrower definition of metropolises, only four cities surpass the threshold of at least one million inhabitants within its administrative borders, namely: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne.

For urban centres outside metropolitan areas, that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of the Regiopolis and respectively regiopolitan area or regio was introduced by German professors in 2006.[2]

Metropolitan regions

Sorted alphabetically:

  1. Berlin Metropolitan Region
  2. Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region
  3. Central German Metropolitan Region
  4. Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region
  5. Hamburg Metropolitan Region
  6. Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region
  7. Munich Metropolitan Region
  8. Nuremberg Metropolitan Region
  9. Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region
  10. Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region (also covers the Cologne Bonn Region)
  11. Stuttgart Metropolitan Region

Big five

The five most important regions, collectively often called the "Big Five",[3][4] are frequently compared with other European metropolitan areas for investments and market development.[5] They are (from north to south): Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf (or collectively Rhine-Ruhr), Frankfurt/Rhine-Main and Munich. Globalization and World Cities Study Group (GaWC) considers Frankfurt and Munich "α" (Alpha) Global Cities, while the others are considered "β" (Beta) global cities.[6]

Frankfurt 
Berlin 
Hamburg 
Munich 
Düsseldorf (Rhine-Ruhr) 

Each of them forms types of clusters and achieves varying levels of performance in areas such as business activity, human capital, information and technology exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement.[7]

List

rank
 		metropolitan region (EMR)
 		core cities
 		states
 		population as by EMR[8] (2006) population as by ESPON[9] (2007) GDP per capita in €[10] (2006) GMP in Billion €[8] (2006) HQs of MNC (FG500[11]) annual passenger traffic (2008)
1 Rhine-Ruhr EMR K, DO, D, E, DU NW 11.47 million 12.19 million 29,486 338.21 13 30.80 million
Ruhr DO, E, DU, BO 5.26 million 5.38 million 25,266 132.90 4 2.30 million (DTM)
Düsseldorf D, W, MG 3.12 million 3.07 million 34,658 108.13 5 18.15 million (DUS)
Cologne/Bonn K, BN 3.09 million 3.07 million 31,448 97.18 4 10.35 million (CGN)
2 Berlin/Brandenburg EMR B, P BE, BR 5.95 million 4.02 million 21,981 130.78 1 21.40 million (TXL, SXF)
3 Frankfurt/Rhine-Main EMR F, WI, MZ, DA, OF, HU HE, RP, BY 5.52 million 4.15 million 35,000 193.20 4 57.44 million (FRA, HHN)
4 Stuttgart EMR S, RT, ES, HN BW 5.29 million N/A 31,909 168.80 8[12] 9.93 million
Stuttgart S, ES 2.67 million 2.67 million 35,492 94.76 8[13] 9.93 million[14] (STR)
5 Munich EMR M, A, (IN) BY 5.20 million 3.27 million 39,155 203.61 7 34.73 million
Munich[15] M, FS 2.59 million[16] 2.67 million 47,943 124.35[16] 7 34.73 million (MUC)
6 Central German EMR L, DD, C, HAL, EF SN, ST, TH 4.36 million N/A 21,482 93.66 0 4.88 million
Leipzig/Halle L, HAL 1.50 million 1.21 million no data no data 0 2.46 million (LEJ)
Dresden DD 0.70 million[17] 0.88 million no data no data 0 1.86 million (DRS)
7 Hamburg EMR HH HH, SH, NI 4.27 million 2.98 million 33,210 141.81 2 12.84 million (HAM)
8 Hannover-Braunschweig-
Göttingen-Wolfsburg EMR 		H, BS, GÖ, WOB, SZ, HI NI 3.91 million N/A 27,251 106.55 3 5.74 million
Braunschweig/Wolfsburg BS, WOB, SZ 1.00 million[18] 1.00 million no data no data 1 0.10 million (BWE)
Hannover H 1.12 million* 1.00 million no data no data 2 5.64 million[19] (HAJ)
9 Nuremberg EMR N, WÜ, FÜ, ER, BT, BA BY 3.51 million 1.58 million 29,955 105.14 0 4.27 million[20] (NUE)
10 Bremen/Oldenburg EMR HB, OL, HBx, DEL, WHV HB, NI 2.37 million 1.08 million 27,046 64.10 0 2.49 million (BRE)
11 Rhine-Neckar EMR MA, LU, HD, WO BW, RP, HE 2.36 million 2.93 million 29,891 70.54 1 0
metropolitan regions in Germany 57.74 million 29,412 1,698.23 34 168.75 million
Germany 80.22 million 28,212 2,322.20 37 191.02 million[21]

      highest score of all metropolitan regions
      highest score of all metropolitan areas

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mitglieder Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther (FG Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Universität Kassel): Presentation "Regiopole Rostock". 11 December 2008, retrieved 13 June 2009 (PDF).
  3. ↑ Hans Heinrich Blotevogel. (PDF) (in German) //web.archive.org/web/20100602092219/http://cdl.niedersachsen.de/blob/images/C18102984_L20.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Dr. Radetzki Consult GmbH (PDF) Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  5. ↑ "C&W European Cities Monitor 2008: London, Paris and Frankfurt the best business locations in Europe". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  6. ↑ The World According to GaWC 2010 Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  7. ↑ "Positionierung Europäischer Metropolregionen in Deutschland, Metropolfunktionen in Metropolregionen" (PDF). Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung. 2009. p. 3. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  8. 1 2 Regionales Monitoring 2008 - Daten und Karten zu den Europäischen Metropolregionen (EMR) in Deutschland (PDF) Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  9. ↑ "ESPON project 1.4.3: Study on Urban Functions: Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  10. ↑ Regionales Monitoring 2008 - Daten und Karten zu den Europäischen Metropolregionen (EMR) in Deutschland
  11. ↑ Global 500 CNNMoney Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  12. ↑ Retrieved 03 November 2015: Daimler, Bosch, IBM Deutschland, HP Deutschland, Lenovo Deutschland, Celesio, Cisco Deutschland, LBBW
  13. ↑ Retrieved 03 November 2015: Daimler, Bosch, Celesio, LBBW, IBM Deutschland, HP Deutschland, Cisco Deutschland, Lenovo Deutschland
  14. ↑ Wichtige Kennziffern der Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  15. ↑ http://www.region-muenchen.com/ Retrieved 25 June 2009.
  16. 1 2 "Region München 2006 Regionaler Planungsverband München" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
  17. ↑ "Bevölkerungsbilanz in der Stadt-Umland-Region". Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  18. ↑ "Das Tätigkeitsgebiet: Die Region Braunschweig". Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  19. ↑ http://www.hannover-airport.de/189.html Retrieved 22 June 2009. Archived October 30, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ↑ "Airport Nurnberg". Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  21. ↑ ADV Monatsstatistik / ADV Monthly Traffic Statistics (PDF) Retrieved 22 June 2009.

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