North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia contains 482 populated places. Browse the directory below to explore individual cities and towns.
About North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia covers a recognisable area of Deutschland, encompassing 482 populated places listed in this directory. The region presents communities of varied scale, each with its own character shaped by geography, history, and local economy.
Residents and visitors moving between communities within North Rhine-Westphalia draw on the region's civic infrastructure. The directory pages for each city below link onward to facts and context for that specific place — population (where recorded), coordinates, postal codes, and a short narrative drawn from the underlying open geographic datasets.
Use the paginated list to browse the full set of 482 places in North Rhine-Westphalia, or jump to the related-regions list to explore nearby parts of Deutschland.
Cities and towns (page 1 of 10)
- Köln (1,024,621)
- Düsseldorf (631,217)
- Essen (593,085)
- Dortmund (588,462)
- Duisburg (504,358)
- Bochum (385,729)
- Wuppertal (360,797)
- Bielefeld (331,906)
- Bonn (330,579)
- Kreisfreie Stadt Münster (308,258)
- Gelsenkirchen (270,028)
- Aachen (265,208)
- Mönchengladbach (261,742)
- Krefeld (237,984)
- Oberhausen (219,176)
- Hagen (198,972)
- Hamm (178,967)
- Mülheim (173,050)
- Herne (172,108)
- Solingen (164,359)
- Leverkusen (162,738)
- Neuss (152,457)
- Paderborn (142,161)
- Recklinghausen (122,438)
- Bottrop (119,909)
- Remscheid (117,118)
- Siegen (107,242)
- Bergisch Gladbach-Mitte (106,184)
- Moers (103,487)
- Gütersloh (96,180)
- Düren (93,440)
- Iserlohn (91,811)
- Witten (91,808)
- Ratingen (91,606)
- Marl (91,398)
- Lünen (91,009)
- Velbert (87,669)
- Minden (82,879)
- Dorsten (79,981)
- Lüdenscheid (79,386)
- Castrop-Rauxel (77,924)
- Rheine (76,491)
- Viersen (76,153)
- Gladbeck (75,499)
- Arnsberg (74,879)
- Troisdorf (74,749)
- Bocholt (73,943)
- Detmold (73,680)
- Lippstadt (67,219)
- Dinslaken (66,993)