History: Old Germany

9 - Essen - North Rhine-Westphalia - 574,635 - 19 - Bielefeld - North Rhine-Westphalia - 323,270
10 - Bremen - Bremen (state) - 547,340 - 20 - Mannheim - Baden-Württemberg - 313,174
• Religion
Christianity is the largest religion in Germany, with around 51.5 million adherents (62.8%) in 2008, of which 30.0% are Catholics and 29.9% are Protestants, belonging to the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD); the remainder consists of small denominations (each less than 0.5% of the German population). Protestantism is concentrated in the north and east and Roman Catholicism is concentrated in the south and west; 1.6% of the country's overall population declare themselves Orthodox Christians.