List of urban areas in Europe
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This list ranks urban areas in Europe by their population according to two different sources. The list includes urban areas that have a population of over 1 million.
Figures in the first and second column come from the UN's World Urbanization Prospects and list only urban agglomerations. Figures in the third column come from the City Population website and list all continuous urban areas, including conurbations. Further information on how the areas are defined can be found in the source documents. These figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive fact.
Urban areas
| Urban area | Country | Agglomerations (UN WUP) |
Urban areas (City Population; 2011) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (2007) | (2015) | |||
| Amsterdam |  Netherlands
|
1,049,000 | 1,970,000 | |
| Antwerp |  Belgium
|
965,000 | 1,017,197 | |
| Athens |  Greece
|
5,000,000 | 5,051,899 | 5,075,000 |
| Barcelona |  Spain
|
5,083,000 | 5,258,319 | 4,500,000 |
| Belgrade |  Serbia
|
1,800,000 | 2,000,000 | 1,750,000 |
| Berlin |  Germany
|
3,450,000 | 3,563,194 | 4,325,000 |
| Birmingham (West Midlands) |  United Kingdom
|
2,302,000 | 2,514,596 | 2,594,803 |
| Brussels-Capital Region | Belgium
|
1,904,000 | 1,910,000 | |
| Bucharest |  Romania
|
1,934,000 | 2,075,000 | |
| Budapest |  Hungary
|
1,706,000 | 2,525,000 | |
| Copenhagen |  Denmark
|
1,186,000 | 1,420,000 | |
| Donetsk |  Ukraine
|
966,000 | 1,450,000 | |
| Dnipro | Ukraine
|
1,004,000 | 1,360,000 | |
| Dublin |  Ireland
|
1,346,000 | 1,100,000 | |
| Frankfurt Rhine-Main Region | Germany
|
Not listed | Not listed | 1,940,000 |
| Greater Glasgow | United Kingdom
|
1,170,000 | 1,026,880 | |
| The Hague | Netherlands
|
626,000 | Not listed | |
| Hamburg | Germany
|
1,786,000 | 2,625,000 | |
| Helsinki |  Finland
|
1,115,000 | 1,120,000 | |
| Istanbul |  Turkey
|
10,525,000 | 14,163,989 | 13,600,000 |
| Katowice urban area |  Poland
|
Not listed | 2,450,000 | |
| Kazan |  Russia
|
1,140,000 | 1,140,000 | |
| Kharkiv | Ukraine
|
1,453,000 | 1,590,000 | |
| Kyiv | Ukraine
|
2,805,000 | 2,941,884 | 3,225,000 |
| Kraków | Poland
|
756,000 | Not listed | |
| West Yorkshire (Bradford–Leeds) | United Kingdom
|
1,547,000 | 1,877,125 | |
| Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai |  France/ Belgium
|
1,033,000 | 1,240,000 | |
| Lisbon |  Portugal
|
2,824,000 | 2,884,297 | 2,575,000 |
| Greater London urban area | United Kingdom
|
8,631,000 | 10,313,307 | 10,552,913 |
| Lyon | France
|
1,468,000 | 1,470,000 | |
| Madrid | Spain
|
5,851,000 | 6,199,254 | 5,400,000 |
| Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
|
2,253,000 | 2,645,598 | 2,737,412 |
| Marseille | France
|
1,469,000 | 1,470,000 | |
| Milan |  Italy
|
3,115,392 | 3,098,974 | 8,875,000 |
| Minsk |  Belarus
|
1,852,000 | 1,860,000 | |
| Moscow | Russia
|
10,550,000 | 12,165,704 | 14,800,000 |
| Munich | Germany
|
1,349,000 | 2,025,000 | |
| Naples | Italy
|
2,276,000 | 2,201,789 | 6,890,000 |
| Nice | France
|
941,000 | Not listed | |
| Nizhny Novgorod | Russia
|
1,267,000 | 1,760,000 | |
| Nuremberg | Germany
|
Not listed | 1,060,000 | |
| Odesa | Ukraine
|
1,009,000 | 1,070,000 | |
| Greater Oslo |  Norway
|
888,000 | 1,130,000 | |
| Paris urban area | France
|
10,485,000 | 10,843,285 | 12,800,000 |
| Perm | Russia
|
982,000 | 1,040,000 | |
| Porto | Portugal
|
1,355,000 | 1,240,000 | |
| Prague |  Czech Republic
|
1,162,000 | 1,390,000 | |
| Rhein-Nord (Düsseldorf–Neuss) | Germany
|
Not listed | Not listed | 1,220,000 |
| Rhein-Süd (Cologne–Bonn Region) | Germany
|
1,001,000 | Not listed | 1,900,000 |
| Rome | Italy
|
3,362,000 | 3,717,956 | 5,580,000 |
| Rostov-on-Don | Russia
|
1,046,000 | 1,190,000 | |
| Rotterdam | Netherlands
|
1,010,000 | Not listed | |
| Rotterdam–The Hague | Netherlands
|
Not listed | Not listed | 2,900,000 |
| Ruhr area | Germany
|
Not listed | Not listed | 4,650,000 |
| Saint Petersburg | Russia
|
4,575,000 | 4,992,991 | 4,775,000 |
| Samara | Russia
|
1,131,000 | 1,270,000 | |
| Saratov | Russia
|
822,000 | 1,070,000 | |
| Seville | Spain
|
Not listed | 1,340,000 | |
| Sofia |  Bulgaria
|
1,196,000 | 1,260,000 | |
| Stockholm urban area |  Sweden
|
1,285,000 | 2,075,000 | |
| Stuttgart | Germany
|
Not listed | 1,980,000 | |
| Thessaloniki urban area | Greece
|
837,000 | Not listed | |
| Turin | Italy
|
1,665,000 | 1,690,000 | |
| Ufa | Russia
|
1,023,000 | 1,040,000 | |
| Valencia | Spain
|
814,000 | 1,780,000 | |
| Vienna |  Austria
|
1,706,000 | 2,025,000 | |
| Volgograd | Russia
|
977,000 | 1,360,000 | |
| Warsaw | Poland
|
1,712,000 | 2,225,000 | |
| Zürich |  Switzerland
|
1,150,000 | 1,180,000 | |
See also
- List of cities in Europe by population within city limits
- List of metropolitan areas in Europe
- List of largest cities in the European Union by population within city limits
- List of urban areas in the European Union
- List of larger urban zones (metropolitan area)
- List of cities in Europe by country
- List of European cities proper by population density
- List of European city regions
- World's largest cities
Notes and references
- ^ Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, City Population. Data for 2011-04-01. Accessed on 2009-03-12.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision) Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, (United Nations, 2010), Table A.12. Data for 2007.
- ^ Annual Population of Urban Agglomerations with 300,000 Inhabitants or More in 2014, by Country, 1950-2030 (thousands), World Urbanization Prospects, the 2014 revision Archived 2015-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Retrieved 21 August 2015. Note: List based on estimates for 2015, from 2014.
- ^ 65% of the population lives on the European part
- ^ Includes Kortrijk
- ^ a b Polycentric metropolitan area
- ^ Excludes Duisburg, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach
- ^ a b Excludes Bonn
- ^ Includes Duisburg
External links
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