Geography - Travel Times  

Germany: 80 million 140,000² miles Pennsylvania + Virginia + Maryland + West Virginia + Delaware

Austria: 7.8 million  32,000² miles   Maine or 3/4 of Virginia

Switzerland: German speaking 6.5 million total 74% German
16,000² miles; Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island or 1.5 times Maryland. 

Bern - Vienna 545 miles or DC >>> Portland
Bern - Hamburg 580 miles or DC >>> Louisville or Montreal

Frequencies!! Rail hours 
Hamburg München ICE 6 
Frankfurt-Hamburg 3:30 
Berlin-Köln 4:20 
Frankfurt-München 3:45 
Frankfurt-Wien 7
Wien-München 4:45 294

Frankfurt - Basel 2:45

Hamburg-Berlin 1:30
Südtirol
German resorts, Meran  but also Brixen and Bozen.

Elsaß
Straßburg
Colmar* - Isenheimer Altar
Mühlhausen
countryside**
Dreiländer, 

Liechtenstein
Luxemburg 
Belgien

Tourist Itinerary (etwas Besonderes)

German-speaking cities by size Foreign tourists as a percent of all tourists

I. Berlin 3.4 Million ***  21%

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II. Wien 1.6 Million ** T

Hamburg 1.6 ** 34%

München 1.2 * T 39%

Köln 1 * 34%

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III. Frankfurt 625,000 - 44%

Essen 625,000 - 11%

Dortmund 600,000 - 16%

Düsseldorf 575,000 - 30%

Stuttgart 560,000 * 25%

Leipzig 530,000 -

Bremen 525,000 - 23%

Hannover 500,000 - 34%

Dresden 500,000 -

Nürnberg 485,000 ** 34% 

Bochum 400,000 -

Wuppertal 375,000 -

Kiel 250,000 -

Mannheim 300,000 -

Chemnitz 300,000 -

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IV. Wiesbaden 270,000

Bonn 290,000

Braunschweig 250,000 -

Augsburg 250,000 -

Münster 270,000 -

Lübeck 210,000 **

Graz 250,000 ***

Linz 250,000

Aachen 240,000 -

Mainz 190,000 -

Freiburg 190,000 ** T

Salzburg 150,000 **+ T

Darmstadt 140,000 -

Heidelberg 130,000 *+ T

Oldenburg 140,000 -

Würzburg 130,000 *

Basel 170,000  /   360,000! -

Zürich 350,000  /  835,000 -

Innsbruck 125,000 * T

Bern 140,000 -*  /   300,000!

T. Meersburg 5,100

Michelstadt 14,000

Miltenberg 9,500

Goslar 55,000

Marburg 75,000

Baden-Baden 50,000

Bamberg 72,000

Urach 11,000

Rothenburg 12,000

T = known as a tourist city, a stop on organized tours, your friends at home will have heard of it

- = may be interesting for specific reasons to certain people,[your relatives came from there, you read a story about it, you want to visit the beer museum] but if your time is not unlimited don't go there

* interesting for a general tourist

** very interesting for a general tourist

*** build your trip around them, unique for general tourists