Population development of East German municipalities, 1946–present Notes: The official name of the capital, East Berlin, was simply "Berlin", or "Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR". It is provided here as "Berlin (Ost)" to avoid confusion with the unified Berlin.
Projection: EPSG: 25833 (ETRS89 / UTM zone 33N) Music: "Auferstanden aus Ruinen", anthem of the DDR Composed by Hanns Eisler Resources: Historical population data (1946–1989) from the Statistisches Jahrbuch der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, accessed from the Statistical Library (Statistische Bibliothek) https://www.statistischebibliothek.de/mir/receive/DESerie_mods_00007446 Historical population data (2011–2022) from GV-ISys, published by the Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt), accessed from Destatis https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Countries-Regions/Regional-Statistics/OnlineListMunicipalities/_inhalt.html Historical boundary data from VG-Hist series, published by the Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie) https://gdz.bkg.bund.de/index.php/default/digitale-geodaten.html Geographical data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) https://www.openstreetmap.org/ QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/) was also used for data manipulation.
