List of cities and towns on the Danube river

This is a list of the cities and towns located on Danube river. This list does not include parts of cities, suburbs, neighborhoods, etc 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.

Map of the Danube and the major cities it passes through

List edit

‡ First Roman town on the site

RankName of city / townImageInhabitantsEstab­lishedPresent countryNotes
1Vienna 2,006,134
(01.01.2024)[1]
~100 AD  AustriaCapital and largest city in Austria.
2Budapest 1,671,004 (01.01.2023)[2]1873  HungaryCapital and largest city in Hungary.
3Belgrade 1,197,714 (2022)[3]279 BC  SerbiaCapital and largest city in Serbia.
4Bratislava 475,503
(2021)[4]
907 AD  SlovakiaCapital and largest city in Slovakia.
5Novi Sad 306,702

(2022)[5]

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

(2021)

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(31.12.2022)[8]

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(2022)

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

(01.01.2022)[9]

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

(01.12.2021)

1506 (1860 – city status)  RomaniaThe 4th largest Danubian city in Romania and seat of Tulcea county.
17Neu-Ulm 61,043
(31.12.2022)[7]
1814  GermanyThe 4th largest Danubian city in Germany.
18Smederevo 59,261

(2022)

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(01.01.2023)[10]

~1000  HungaryThe second largest Danubian city in Hungary.
24Dunaújváros 40,969

(01.01.2023)[11]

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

(31.12.2022)[8]

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

(01.01.2023)[12]

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

(31.12.2022)[13]

1075  SlovakiaThe second largest Danubian city in Slovakia.
29Baja 31,571

(01.01.2023)[14]

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

(2021)

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(2020)

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

(2022)

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

(01.01.2023)

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

(2021)

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

(01.01.2023)[15]

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

(2022)

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

(2021)

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

(31.12.2022)[7]

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

(2022)

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(2022)[9]

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(01.12.2021)

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

(01.12.2021)

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

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