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The increase of the population since 1900 has been as follows : —

1900 1905 1910 1919

Population

6,176,057 6,524,372 6,887. 7,140,333 J

Population per sq. mile

210-9 2'22'3 226-9 242-1

Annual Increase percent

122 112 1-12

Urban and rural population at the censuses of 1905 and 1910 : —
 * Amended figure.

„ No. of So. of !

C « n8,i * Towns „ RurU

Communes

Towns, «jc, with 2,000 inhabitants and over

Communes. At, i tban 2,000 inkat

1905 1910

No. Population

Per cent, of pop.

m

7,739, S04 2,761,647 7,7» ; 534 3,079,022

42-3 44-7

No.

Population ^cent.


 * .••:. tjm,m

57-:

55-3

In 1910 tbe urban population was tbus distributed : —

No. Population 191C

Large towns 1. Medium ,,

3

19

1,052,624 741,969

Small towns Country „

176

Population 1910

505,951 397,992

1 See under Qerm+ny for official signification of these terms. Principal towns, 1919 : —

T> "*:.-

1919

Munich (Miinchen) Nuremberg (Niirnberg) Augsburg. Wiirzburg. Ludwigshafen a. Rh. Fiirth. Kaiserslautern Ratisbon (Regensburg) Bamberg. Hof.

630,724 352,679 154,567 86,581 90,721 63,163 55,707 52,520

39,690

Towns

INS

Pirmasens.

Bayreuth.

Ascbatfenburg

Amberg

Landsbut.

Erlangen

Ingoldstadt

Speyer

Coburg

39,612 33,161 32,220 26,009 25,332 24,438 26.103 23,326 23,276

Religion.— Religious division of the population, December 1, 1910 : — Roman Catbolics, 4,862,283 ; Protestants, 1,942,385 ; Jews, 55,065.

Besides the above there are included in other Christian sects 5.S16 Old Catholics, 3,017 Mennonites,164 Anglican.1,611 Greek Catholics and Russian Orthodox,l,139 Irringites, 25 Anabaptists, 1,833 Methodists, 5.841 Free Christians, 1,649 other Christians, 1,370 of religion not Christian, 4,240 of religion not stated, or without religion, 903 of religion not ascertainable. ..

There are 2 Roman Catholic archbishoprics, those of Munich and Bamberg each with 3 suffragan bishoprics; 218 deaneries; and 3,703 parishes. The Protestant Church is under a General Consistory— ' Ober-Consistorium '—and three proTincial consistories.