Hamburg/Berlin
Munich, Vienna or Berlin? There is clearly a favorite among the German-speaking metropolises. And one of Germany’s neighboring countries also gets a particularly large number of sympathy points.
Among the five German-speaking cities with over a million inhabitants, adults in Germany have a clear favorite metropolis. This is the result of a representative survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the German Press Agency.
When asked which of the German-speaking megacities they find “most likeable”, most voted for Hamburg (25 percent). Munich (19 percent), Vienna (15 percent), Berlin (12 percent) and Cologne (11 percent) follow. The rest didn’t want to choose either city.
Men and women are quite unanimous in terms of ranking on the subject. The young adults (18 to 24 years) are the most strikingly different in terms of age groups: among them, Munich is ahead of Hamburg, followed by Cologne, Berlin and Vienna.
Austria and Netherlands most popular
According to a survey, the Alpine Republic of Austria is the most likeable neighboring country for most adults in Germany. This is the result of a representative survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the German Press Agency. The country was selected from Germany’s nine neighbors by 22 percent of those over the age of 18.
They are followed by the Netherlands (17 percent), Denmark (13 percent), France and Switzerland (10 percent each). Poland, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg (each with 3 percent) and Belgium (2 percent) land at the bottom. The rest didn’t specify.
Adults in both western and eastern Germany name Austria most frequently, but in the east Denmark follows ahead of the Netherlands. And Poland and the Czech Republic are more popular than in the West.
For young adults (18 to 24 years), Austria and the Netherlands are tied, followed by Switzerland, France and Poland.
