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In December 2013, the city-state of Berlin had a population of 3,517,424 registered inhabitants (+47, 800) in an area of . The city's population density was 3,944 inhabitants per km². Berlin is Germany's largest city and the second most populous city in the European Union, as calculated by city-proper population. Berlin's urban area stretches beyond the city limits, comprising about 3.7 million people in 2001. The Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan area is home to about 4.3 million in an area of . In 2004, The Larger Urban Zone was home to around 5 million people in an area of 17,385 km².〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City Profiles Berlin )〕 National and international migrations into the city have a long history. In December 2013, 538,729 residents (15.3 percent of the population) were of foreign nationality from 190 countries. ==History== The city responded to the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France with the Edict of Potsdam, which guaranteed religious freedom and tax-free status to French Huguenot refugees for ten years. The 1920 Greater Berlin Act incorporated many suburbs and surrounding cities, forming most of the region comprising modern Berlin. The act increased the area of Berlin from to and its population from 1.9 million to 4 million. Asylum policies in West Berlin triggered waves of immigration during the 1960s and 1970s. Berlin is home to about 250,000 Turks (especially in Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Wedding, a locality in the borough of Mitte), the largest Turkish community outside Turkey. During the 1990s, the ''Aussiedlergesetze'' enabled immigration to Germany of residents of the former Soviet Union. Ethnic Germans from countries from the former Soviet Union make up the largest portion of the Russian-speaking community.〔(Berlin is speaking Russians' language ). The Russia Journal. 10 March 2001.〕 Immigration continues from a number of Western countries, particularly by young people from other parts of the EU. Berlin has seen an increase in the number of African immigrants during the last two decades. | valign="top" | |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Demographics of Berlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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