The recent population count stats say 1.8 mil, but that's the city center. If you include the suburbs, it's close to 4 mil. read more
Hamburg (English: / ˈ h æ m b ɜːr ɡ /; German: [ˈhambʊɐ̯k] ( listen); locally: ( listen)), Low German: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ( listen), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Low German: Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg), is the second-largest city of Germany as well as one of the country's 16 constituent states, with a population of roughly 1.8 million people. read more
Hamburg, for example, has a city population of 1.8 million as of 2012, but its metropolitan area is home to more than 5 million. Düsseldorf, the 7th largest city in Germany, has a population of close to 600,000, but its metropolitan area is home to over 11.3 million. read more