Yearly update of the comparison between Hamburg, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, and Bordeaux, this time based on the final figures from the 2011 French and German censuses. The population of Hamburg has been significantly revised down by the German census.
This year I've been able to add Munich, thanks to very detailed land area and population figures now available online for the communes (municipalities) and commune-free forest areas of Bavaria.
And the 2nd largest city of Germany is....