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Nuremberg, 
Germany
644,169 people lived in Nuremberg in 2025. It is the 837th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th largest in Germany.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Nuremberg governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nuremberg grew
Where Nuremberg had 10 people in 1975, it had 11.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 609,868 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Nuremberg through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nuremberg in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Germany · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nuremberg is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Germany in 2025, 100 in all, led by Berlin, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Nuremberg covered 170 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 62 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 37%, and its people have grown by 17%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Germany
Its share of Germany
Of every 1,000 people in Germany in 2025, 8 lived in Nuremberg, which is 644,169 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Germany, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Nuremberg's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 833 Changde China651,562
- 834 Mazar i sharif Afghanistan651,287
- 835 Nottingham United Kingdom649,610
- 836 Amarah Iraq645,612
- 837 Nuremberg644,169
- 838 Dhule India643,777
- 839 Toulouse France642,224
- 840 Jalpaiguri India642,158
- 841 Bauchi Nigeria642,082
In Germany, 2025
- 576 Stuttgart899,103
- 708 Bonn756,044
- 717 Dortmund748,106
- 820 Wuppertal662,663
- 837 Nuremberg644,169
- 887 Hanover611,288
- 989 Dresden554,612
- 1017 Leipzig542,313
- 1241 Mannheim448,203
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Nuremberg are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Nuremberg publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries