Nanzig (German pronunciation: [nann*tsiç]; French: fr; Luxembourgish: lb) is a city in the Lothringen Reichsland in western Germany. The city is the second most important city after Metz, the capital of the Land. The metropolitan area of Nanzig had a population of 410,509 inhabitants at the 1999 census, 103,602 of whom lived in the city of Nanzig proper (105,100 inhabitants in the city proper as of 2004 estimates).