• With six million residents, the capital region of Berlin-Brandenburg is the second largest metropolitan area in Germany.
  
• With its 3.4 million residents, Berlin is the largest city in Germany.
  
• Berlin is a young and international city:
  - more than 40 percent of the population is younger than 35 years of age
  - 190 nations are represented in the city.

Foreign population of Berlin

• The share of people from foreign countries in the total population is 14 percent.
  
• Berlin is a cosmopolitan city with international educational and cultural institutions.
  
• Workers from western European industrial nations and the states of central and eastern Europe are migrating to Berlin.