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Saarland Map
Every district, city and town in Saarland on one zoomable map, with its main highways, rivers and lakes. Switch on towns and districts above the map and zoom in for every name; tap a district to see its population, area and largest towns.
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Free to print for class and home: Saarland with its cities and towns, a map of its districts, and a blank outline map. PDFs fit one A4 or US Letter page.
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Key facts
- Capital
- Saarbrücken
- Largest city
- Saarbrücken (182,859)
- Population
- 1,007,342 (2025)
- Area
- 2,572 km² (993 sq mi)
- Districts of Saarland
- 6
- Most populous district
- Regionalverband Saarbrücken (331,994)
- Largest district by area
- Merzig-Wadern, 557 km² (215 sq mi)
About Saarland
Saarland has 6 districts and about 1,007,342 people (2025) on 2,572 km² (993 sq mi). Saarbrücken is both the capital and the largest city, with 182,859 people. It borders Rhineland-Palatinate, France and Luxembourg.
Regionalverband Saarbrücken is the most populous district (331,994 people) and St. Wendel the least (87,372); Merzig-Wadern is the largest by area (557 km²) and Neunkirchen the smallest (250 km²).
Largest cities in Saarland
The 25 most populous cities and towns. All 52 are on the map above: switch on Towns and zoom in to see them.
| # | City | District | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saarbrücken | Regionalverband Saarbrücken | 182,859 |
| 2 | Neunkirchen | Neunkirchen | 46,896 |
| 3 | Homburg | Saarpfalz-Kreis | 43,412 |
| 4 | Völklingen | Regionalverband Saarbrücken | 40,565 |
| 5 | Saarlouis | Saarlouis | 37,675 |
| 6 | St. Ingbert | Saarpfalz-Kreis | 35,209 |
| 7 | Merzig | Merzig-Wadern | 31,341 |
| 8 | St. Wendel | St. Wendel | 25,365 |
| 9 | Dillingen/ Saar | Saarlouis | 21,295 |
| 10 | Blieskastel | Saarpfalz-Kreis | 19,935 |
| 11 | Lebach | Saarlouis | 19,269 |
| 12 | Heusweiler | Regionalverband Saarbrücken | 18,385 |
| 13 | Püttlingen | Regionalverband Saarbrücken | 18,314 |
| 14 | Wadgassen | Saarlouis | 17,987 |
| 15 | Schwalbach | Saarlouis | 17,940 |
| 16 | Bexbach | Saarpfalz-Kreis | 17,730 |
| 17 | Schmelz | Saarlouis | 16,869 |
| 18 | Eppelborn | Neunkirchen | 16,611 |
| 19 | Losheim am See | Merzig-Wadern | 16,415 |
| 20 | Wadern | Merzig-Wadern | 16,415 |
| 21 | Sulzbach/ Saar | Regionalverband Saarbrücken | 16,191 |
| 22 | Illingen | Neunkirchen | 15,932 |
| 23 | Schiffweiler | Neunkirchen | 15,832 |
| 24 | Beckingen | Merzig-Wadern | 15,406 |
| 25 | Rehlingen-Siersburg | Saarlouis | 14,889 |
Populations are the Federal Statistical Office's population on 31 December 2025, carried forward from the 2022 census, counted in the municipalities of that day; a district's population and area are the sums of its municipalities', and the districts add up to the state's 1,007,342. Towns are whole municipalities (Gemeinden), so a city's figure stops at its boundary.
Districts of Saarland
All 6 districts. Select one to show it on the map.
| Landkreis | 107,982 | 557 | |
| Landkreis | 132,607 | 250 | |
| Regionalverband | 331,994 | 411 | |
| Landkreis | 204,087 | 459 | |
| Landkreis | 143,300 | 418 | |
| Landkreis | 87,372 | 477 |
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Sources
- Districts, states and Germany's border: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250), the boundaries of 1 January 2026, daten.gdz.bkg.bund.de (dl-de/by-2-0).
- Populations, areas and town locations: Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) for the Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder, Gemeindeverzeichnis (GV-ISys), all municipalities on 31 December 2025, population on the basis of the 2022 census.
- Autobahns, rivers and lakes: BKG, Digitales Landschaftsmodell 1:1 000 000 (DLM1000), daten.gdz.bkg.bund.de (dl-de/by-2-0).