Germany

The federal state of Bremen, with the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven, has about 671,000 inhabitants; 557,000 of them are in Bremen alone. As a metropolis for northwest Germany, Bremen is the only German city to have an international airport only 10 minutes from the city center. Excellent connections to the port and motorways make Bremen an easily accessible logistics hub. Nowhere else are so many decision-makers, corporations and world brands concentrated in only 326 square kilometers.

Central Germany is home to mid-size cities including Kassel, Erfurt and the resort town of Bad Hersfeld. Erfurt has a population of about 200,000 and is the capital of the state of Thuringia. Some of Germany’s densest population concentrations—including Dortmund, the cities of the Ruhr and Hanover—are within a 120-mile radius of Central Germany.

Cologne, the fourth-largest city in Germany, is located in the most densely populated federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia. The region along the rivers Rhine and Ruhr is the largest conurbation nationwide and—with its 10 million inhabitants, about 1.08 million in Cologne itself—one of the 40 largest metropolises in the world.

Frankfurt am Main is a vital international financial center and a European traffic hub. It is an important industrial, service and exhibition location and is listed among the world cities under economic criteria. With a population of 730,000, Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in the state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. In addition, the city is the center of the metropolitan area of ​​Frankfurt/Rhine-Main with about 5.5 million inhabitants.

Greater Munich, the capital of Germany’s innovative and wealthy state of Bavaria, is one of the most important commercial centers in Europe and Germany’s leading high-tech location. Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with a population of approximately 4 million in the metropolitan area.

Greater Munich is a diverse, cosmopolitan metropolis in which 27.6 percent of its residents are foreign nationals. The Greater Munich region has a GDP of 1.56 billion Euros.
 

Hamburg, a cosmopolitan and historic port city on the Elbe River near the North Sea, is a key cog in the economy of the 21st century. With a population of 1.76 million, Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany.

Hamburg sits astride a series of transportation axes—shipping lanes, motorways, rail and air—that connect Scandinavia and Western, Eastern and Southern Europe. Aerospace is a major industry in the Hamburg region, employing some 35,000 people.

Set on the River Leine, Hannover is the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. With a population of about 540,000 people and within 100 miles of the vital North Sea ports of Bremen and Hamburg, Hannover is an important logistics hub for Germany.

With a population of 11,600 , Manching is a small town about 40 miles north of Munich and is part of the Ingolstadt metropolitan area, which has a population of 500,000. Manching has economic importance beyond its stature, in large part because it is home to the Airbus Eurofighter program.

Nuremberg has a population of about 500,000, making it the second-largest city in Bavaria. The broader Nuremberg region has a population of 3.5 million and is one of the 10 largest business centers in Europe, home to 168,000 companies.

The Rhine-Ruhr is a highly industrialized, densely populated region of Western Germany that includes the major cities of Bonn, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Essen. With a population of about 10 million, the region is the third-largest metroplex in Europe, after London and Paris. Rhine-Ruhr is one of the world’s 10 largest economic regions.