Nuremberg ( also known as Nämberch in Nuremberg ) is an independent city in the Middle Franconia administrative region of the Free State of Bavaria . With around 550,000 inhabitants (December 2022) [2], the city is the largest city in Franconia , the second largest city in Bavaria and the fourteenth largest city in Germany.

Together with the direct neighboring cities of Fürth , Erlangen and Schwabach , Nuremberg is one of the three metropolises in Bavaria with over 810,000 inhabitants . Together with their surrounding areas, these cities form the Nuremberg conurbation with around 1.4 million people and the economic and cultural center of the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg , which has over 3.6 million inhabitants and is one of the eleven metropolitan regions in Germany .Nuremberg is one of the major cities in Germany with a decidedly multicultural society .