Metropolitan regions in Germany

Based on a narrower definition of metropolises commonly used to determine the metropolitan status of a given city, four cities in Germany surpass the threshold of at least one million inhabitants within their administrative borders: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Cologne.

For urban centres outside metropolitan areas that are a similar focal point for their region, but on a smaller scale, the concept of the Regiopolis and the related concepts of regiopolitan area or regio were introduced by urban and regional planning professors in 2006.

Metropolitan regions

Sorted alphabetically:

1. Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region
2. Central German Metropolitan Region
3. Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region
4. Hamburg Metropolitan Region
5. Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region
6. Munich Metropolitan Region
7. Northwest 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