Largest European cities and metropolitan areas
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This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas of Europe. The population figures for both the metropolitan area and central city are given.
In some cases, the list of Largest urban areas of the European Union would give figures that better reflect common understanding of the different cities' sizes as the metropolitan areas include also non-urban and suburban areas and administrative borders for cities often cut across most urban areas. The list of Larger Urban Zones (LUZ) in the European Union can also be consulted for an attempt by Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, to provide harmonized data for EU metropolitan areas. The list below includes cities which are not part of the European Union and therefore do not benefit from the harmonized definition used by Eurostat and the different National Statistics Offices of the European Union.
The list also includes multicentric conurbations that are not based on single central city. In addition, the numbers below are only rough projections based on historical growth rates. As in the rest of the world, metropolitan areas in Europe are much debated, and different sources will provide different statistics (including Wikipedia's own worldwide list of metropolitan areas by population). These figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive fact. In most cases, they are towards the top of the range of figures quoted for each metropolitan area. Some of these areas are very much regions rather than single settlements. Unless otherwise indicated, metropolitan area figures are estimates for 2008-01-01 from World Gazetteer.
| Rank | Metropolitan area name | Country | Population of metropolitan area | Population of municipality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moscow |  Russia |
14,744,150 | 10,425,075 (2006) |
| 2 | Istanbul |  Turkey |
13,179,865 | 8,803,468 (2000) |
| 3 | London |  United Kingdom |
13,063,441 | 7,517,700 (2005) |
| 4 | Paris |  France |
11,818,503 | 2,153,600 (2005) |
| 5 | Rhine-Ruhr |  Germany |
11,817,132[1] | Cologne (983,347); Essen (585,430); Dusseldorf (574,514) |
| 6 | Randstad |  Netherlands |
6,579,720[1] | Amsterdam (743,070); Rotterdam (588,697); The Hague (475,627); Utrecht (288,732) |
| 7 | Madrid |  Spain |
6,270,551 | 3,128,600 (2006) |
| 8 | Greater Manchester/Liverpool | United Kingdom |
5,019,446[1] | Liverpool (460,500); Manchester (442,800); Stockport (281,600); Oldham (217,393); Salford (216,103); Rochdale (206,400); Trafford (213,200) |
| 9 | Barcelona | Spain |
4,959,864 | 1,605,602 (2006) |
| 10 | Saint Petersburg | Russia |
4,820,815 | 4,580,620 (2006) |
| 11 | Milan |  Italy |
4,308,403 | 1,308,735 (2006) |
| 12 | Berlin | Germany |
4,040,690 | 3,395,189 (2005) |
| 13 | Rome | Italy |
3,858,111 | 2,547,677 (2006) |
| 14 | Athens |  Greece |
3,829,018 | 745,514 (2001) |
| 15 | Naples | Italy |
3,817,076 | 984,242 (2006) |
| 16 | West Midlands | United Kingdom |
3,704,574 | Birmingham (994,900); Coventry (306,900); Wolverhampton (251,462) |
| 17 | Hamburg Metropolitan Region | Germany |
3,266,896 | 1,743,627 (2006) |
| 18 | Frankfurt Rhine Main Area | Germany |
3,133,739 | 667,468 (2007) |
| 19 | Kiev |  Ukraine |
2,989,638 | 2,660,401 (2005) |
| 20 | Lisbon |  Portugal |
2,634,878 | 564,657 (2001) |
| 21 | Budapest |  Hungary |
2,578,731 | 1,697,343 (2005) |
| 22 | Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area |  Poland |
2,552,515[1] | Katowice (313,461); Sosnowiec (223,284); Gliwice (197,874); Zabrze (189,656); Bytom (185,793); (June 2007)[2] |
| 23 | Copenhagen-Malmö |  Denmark/ Sweden |
2,387,192[1] | Copenhagen 503,699 (2007); Malmö 279,915 (2007) |
| 24 | Stuttgart Region | Germany |
2,334,683 | 592,569 (2005) |
| 25 | Munich | Germany |
2,312,477 | 1,259,677 (2005) |
| 26 | Warsaw | Poland |
2,251,474 | 1,704,717 (June 2007)[2] |
| 27 | Alma (Aachen, Liège, Maastricht) | Netherlands |
2,215,374 | Aachen (258,208); Liege (187,086); Maastricht (120,175) |
| 28 | Bucharest |  Romania |
2,192,372 | 1,921,751 (2002) |
| 29 | Brussels |  Belgium |
2,175,008 | 144,784 (2006) |
| 30 | Vienna |  Austria |
2,113,619 | 1,651,365 (2006) |
| 31 | West Yorkshire | United Kingdom |
1,966,583 | Leeds (448,000); Bradford (477,770); Wakefield (320,600) |
| 32 | Lille-Kortrijk | France/ Belgium |
1,902,966 | Lille (225,100) |
| 33 | Lyon | France |
1,798,395 | 466,400 (2005) |
| 34 | Nizhniy Novgorod | Russia |
1,794,960 | 1,283,553 (2006) |
| 35 | Belgrade |  Serbia |
1,766,534 | 1,120,092[3] (2002) |
| 36 | Minsk |  Belarus |
1,753,547[4] | 1,765,800 (2005) |
| 37 | Stockholm[5] | Sweden |
1,737,995 | 792,593 (2007) |
| 38 | Turin | Italy |
1,690,119 | 900,608 (2006) |
| 39 | Greater Glasgow | United Kingdom |
1,633,187 | 632,000 (August 2007)[6] |
| 40 | Donetsk | Ukraine |
1,631,210 | 999,975 (2005) |
| 41 | Marseille | France |
1,623,720 | 820,900 (2005) |
| 42 | Kharkiv | Ukraine |
1,597,408 | 1,464,740 (2005) |
| 43 | Rhine Neckar Area | Germany |
1,519,893 | Mannheim (307,900); Ludwigshafen (163,560); Heidelberg (142,993) |
| 44 | Douai-Lens-Bethune-Valenciennes | France |
1,513,023[1] | Douai (43,200) |
| 45 | Tyne and Wear | United Kingdom |
1,467,758 | Sunderland (280,807); Newcastle (276,400) |
| 46 | Volgograd | Russia |
1,449,400 | 991,643 (2006) |
| 47 | Bielefeld | Germany |
1,443,109 | 326,925 (2005) |
| 48 | Samara | Russia |
1,427,391 | 1,143,346 (2006) |
| 49 | Dnipropetrovsk | Ukraine |
1,406,784 | 1,056,497 (2005) |
| 50 | Prague |  Czech Republic |
1,406,142 | 1,181,610 (2006) |
| 51 | Halle-Leipzig | Germany |
1,388,578[1] | Halle (237,198); Leipzig (502,651) |
| 52 | Valencia | Spain |
1,374,294 | 805,304 (2006) |
| 53 | Rostov-on-Don | Russia |
1,363,218 | 1,054,865 (2006) |
| 54 | Seville | Spain |
1,336,625 | 704,414 (2006) |
| 55 | Porto[7] | Portugal |
1,299,713 | 227,790 |
| 56 | South Yorkshire | United Kingdom |
1,267,139 | Sheffield (446,300); Doncaster (289,600); Rotherham (253,200) |
| 57 | Helsinki |  Finland |
1,262,805 | 560,905 (2005) |
| 58 | Sofia |  Bulgaria |
1,205,048 | 1,138,950 (2004) |
| 59 | Nürnberg | Germany |
1,204,542 | 499,237 (2005) |
| 60 | Bremen | Germany |
1,184,407 | 546,852 (2005) |
| 61 | Chemnitz-Zwickau | Germany |
1,178,838[1] | Chemnitz (246,587); Zwickau (97,382) |
| 62 | Antwerp | Belgium |
1,147,776 | 461,496 (2006) |
| 63 | Bilbao | Spain |
1,143,876 | 354,145 (2006) |
| 64 | Portsmouth-Southampton | United Kingdom |
1,139,866 | Portsmouth (196,400); Southampton (228,600) |
| 65 | Toulouse | France |
1,133,105 | 435,000 (2005) |
| 66 | Odessa | Ukraine |
1,125,816 | 1,007,131 (2005) |
| 67 | Hannover | Germany |
1,112,463 | 515,729 (2005) |
| 68 | Saarbrucken-Forbach | Germany France |
1,102,945 | Saarbrucken (178,914) |
| 69 | Kazan | Russia |
1,093,748[4] | 1,112,673 (2006) |
| 70 | Saratov | Russia |
1,079,220 | 850,086 (2006) |
| 71 | Dresden | Germany |
1,075,299 | 495,181 (2005) |
| 72 | Dublin |  Republic of Ireland |
1,058,265 | 506,211 (2006) |
| 73 | Nottingham | United Kingdom |
1,025,970 | 286,400 (2006) |
| 74 | Zürich |  Switzerland |
1,025,499 | 347,517 (2006) |
| 75 | Bordeaux | France |
1,009,051 | 229,500 (2005) |
| 76 | Ufa | Russia |
1,006,121[4] | 1,029,616 (2006) |
| 77 | Palermo | Italy |
1,000,820 | 670,820 (2006) |
[edit] References and notes
NB To access the relevant Eurostat reports, once the reference has been followed, click at 'Indicators for larger urban zones'. In the new window that opens, click the 'TIME' button and set the time period (1999_2003). Then click the 'CITIES' button and choose the cities for which you want to access the data. Then click the 'NEXT' button, click 'OK' at the Javascript alert box, and then click 'DOWNLOAD'.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Multicentric urban area
- ^ a b "Population by sex, voivodships (NUTS 2), powiats (LAU 1) and gminas (LAU 2) in 2007, as of June 30" (2007-10-22). Population. Size and structure by territorial division: 45–104. Warsaw: Central Statistical Office. ISSN 1734-6118.
- ^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (2002). Национална или етничка припадност - подаци по насељима (PDF), Књиге резултата Пописа 2002. (in Serbian), Belgrade: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 14. Retrieved on 2006-10-29.
- ^ a b c Metropolitan area definition is the same as the city proper
- ^ Defined by Statistics Sweden to be equivalent to Stockholm County (covering an area of 6,519 km²) [1]. The same definition is used by Eurostat for the Larger Urban Zone. The United Nations urban agglomeration population figure (2005) is 1,708,000.
- ^ 2007 Population Estimates. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
- ^ The United Nations agglomeration figure (defined as the statistical entity known as the area metropolitana) for 2005 is 1,309,000 [2]. The Eurostat Larger Urban Zone figure (which includes the city of Porto and the areas of Vila Nova de Gaia, Matosinhos, Maia, Gondomar and Valongo) for 2001 is 1,089,118 [3].
[edit] See also
- Larger Urban Zones (LUZ) in the European Union
- Largest urban areas of the European Union for the population of urban areas (and not metropolitan areas like here)
- Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits for only the cities proper, at the center of the metropolitan areas
- Largest Cities (25,000+) of Europe by number of headquarters
- World largest cities
- List of metropolitan areas by population for the world
- Largest metropolitan areas in the Americas
- List of the largest metropolitan areas in Africa
