List of cities and towns on the Danube river

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This is a list of the cities and towns located on Danube river. This list does not include parts of cities, suburbs, neighbourhoods, etc. Any city or town which is located on the bank of Danube river can be included in this list. The cities and towns on Danube river could be sorted by various criteria. The main list of this article sorts the cities and towns on Danube by the current number of inhabitants within the city/town limits. More lists may be added to this article with sorting the cities and towns on Danube by different other criteria. A separate list of villages and other smaller inhabited places on Danube could be added in this article as well.

List

‡ First Roman town on the site

Rank Name of city / town Image Inhabitants Estab­lished Present country Notes
1 Vienna 2,006,134
(01.01.2024)[1] 		~100 AD  Austria Capital and largest city in Austria.
2 Budapest 1,671,004 (01.01.2023)[2] 1873  Hungary Capital and largest city in Hungary.
3 Belgrade 1,197,714 (2022)[3] 279 BC  Serbia Capital and largest city in Serbia.
4 Bratislava 475,503
(2021)[4] 		907 AD  Slovakia Capital and largest city in Slovakia.
5 Novi Sad 306,702

(2022)[5]

1748  Serbia Capital and largest city of the autonomous province of Vojvodina and second largest city in Serbia.
6 Galați 217,851

(2021)

1445  Romania The largerst Danubian city in Romania and seat of Galați county.
7 Linz 212,538
(01.01.2024)[6] 		~150 AD  Austria Capital city of Upper Austria and second largest Danubian city in Austria.
8 Regensburg 157,443
(31.12.2022)[7] 		179 AD  Germany The largest Danubian city in Germany.
9 Brăila 154,686

(01.12.2021)

~1370  Romania The second largest Danubian city in Romania and seat of Brăila county.
10 Ingolstadt 141,029 (31.12.2022)[7] 806 AD (~1250 – city status)  Germany The second largest Danubian city in Germany.
11 Ulm 128,928 (31.12.2022) 854 AD  Germany The third largest Danubian city in Germany and home of the tallest church building in the world.
12 Ruse 123,134

(31.12.2022)[8]

~1650 (~150 AD‡)  Bulgaria Capital of Ruse Province and largest Danubian city in Bulgaria.
13 Drobeta-Turnu Severin 79,865

(01.12.2021)

121 AD  Romania The third largest Danubian city in Romania and seat of Mehedinți county.
14 Pančevo 73,401

(2022)

1153 (1873 – city status)  Serbia The second largest Danubian city in Vojvodina and third in Serbia.
15 Izmail 69,932

(01.01.2022)[9]

1589 (1830 – city status)  Ukraine The largest Danubian city in Ukraine and seat of Izmail raion.
16 Tulcea 65,624

(01.12.2021)

1506 (1860 – city status)  Romania The 4th largest Danubian city in Romania and seat of Tulcea county.
17 Neu-Ulm GER – BY – Neu-Ulm (Ansicht aus BaWü im Morgenlicht) — Mattes 2022-03-13.jpg 61,043
(31.12.2022)[7] 		1814  Germany The 4th largest Danubian city in Germany.
18 Smederevo 59,261

(2022)

1430  Serbia The fourth largest Danubian city in Serbia.
19 Călăraşi 58,211

(01.12.2021)

1700 (1833 – city status)  Romania The 5th largest Danubian city in Romania and seat of Călărași county.
20 Giurgiu Giurgiu2016.jpg 54,551

(01.12.2021)

1395 (~550 AD‡)  Romania The 6th largest Danubian city in Romania and seat of Giurgiu county.
21 Passau 53,907
(31.12.2022)[7] 		~100 BC  Germany The 5th largest Danubian city in Germany.
22 Straubing Donau-Straubing-Reinhard-Neidl.jpg 49,164 (31.12.2022)[7] ~100 AD  Germany The 6th largest Danubian city in Germany.
23 Dunakeszi Dunakeszi from above 43,061

(01.01.2023)[10]

~1000  Hungary The second largest Danubian city in Hungary.
24 Dunaújváros Panorama of Dunaújváros.jpg 40,969

(01.01.2023)[11]

1951[11]  Hungary The third largest Danubian city in Hungary.
25 Vidin 36,490

(31.12.2022)[8]

~250 BC  Bulgaria Capital of Vidin Province and second largest Danubian city in Bulgaria.
26 Deggendorf Aerials Deggendorf 16.06.2006.jpg 35,172
(31.12.2022)[7] 		868 (1212 – town status)  Germany The 7th largest Danubian city in Germany.
27 Vác 33,285

(01.01.2023)[12]

1074  Hungary The fifth largest Danubian city in Hungary.
28 Komárno 32,287

(31.12.2022)[13]

1075  Slovakia The second largest Danubian city in Slovakia.
29 Baja A Petőfi-sziget légi fotón.jpg 31,571

(01.01.2023)[14]

1308  Hungary The fourth largest Danubian city in Hungary.
30 Silistra 29,498

(2021)

29 AD  Bulgaria The 3rd largest Danubian city in Bulgaria.
31 Fetești 27,465

(01.12.2021)

~1500  Romania The 7th largest Danubian city in Romania.
32 Svishtov 26,093

(2020)

69 AD  Bulgaria The 4th largest Danubian city in Bulgaria.
33 Bačka Palanka 25,476

(2022)

 Serbia The third largest Danubian city in Vojvodina and fifth in Serbia.
34 Krems an der Donau 25,271

(01.01.2023)

1305  Austria The third largest Danubian city in Austria.
35 Vukovar 22,255

(2021)

1231  Croatia The largest Danubian city in Croatia.
36 Esztergom 19,818

(01.01.2023)[15]

972  Hungary The sixth largest Danubian city in Hungary.
37 Kiliia 18,745

(2022)

1479  Ukraine The 2nd largest Danubian city in Ukraine.
38 Lom 18,593

(2021)

1695  Bulgaria The 5th largest Danubian city in Bulgaria.
39 Vilshofen an der Donau 17,960

(31.12.2022)[7]

776 (1212 – town status)  Germany The largest town in the Passau district.
40 Reni 17,736

(2022)

1548  Ukraine The 3rd largest Danubian city in Ukraine.
41 Cernavodă 15,088

(01.12.2021)

~300 BC  Romania The 8th largest Danubian city in Romania.
42 Apatin 14,613

(2022)[9]

1011  Serbia The fourth largest Danubian city in Vojvodina and sixth in Serbia.
43 Calafat 13,807

(01.12.2021)

~1400  Romania The 9th largest Danubian city in Romania.
44 Corabia 13,527

(01.12.2021)

1871  Romania The 10th largest Danubian city in Romania.
45 Orșova 8,506

(01.12.2021)

~100 AD  Romania The 11th largest Danubian city in Romania.

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