Largest European metropolitan areas

These are the largest metropolitan areas and cities of Europe. Where the population figure is for a metropolitan area, the population of the city proper is given in the brackets.

In some cases, the list of Largest urban zones of the European Union would give figures that better reflect common understanding of the different cities' sizes as it is based on harmonized numbers provided by Eurostat, even though they are inaccurate in practice. 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. Furthermore this list includes large urban areas that are almost metropolitan areas but are not based on one city solely. In addition, the numbers below have often been grossed up using historical growth rates, which means they are only approximations. 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). Yet some convergence of opinion can be observed since Eurostat reached an agreement about definitions with the National Statistics Offices of the different countries in the European Union in 2003. Many of the figures below are based on the harmonized Eurostat figures but they have been grossed up and European cities that are not part of the European Union have non-harmionized figures. Therefore these figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive facts. In some 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, and are considered to be "cities" by few people, if any at all.

Rank	Metropolitan area name	Country	Population
1	Moscow	Russia	14,520,000 (10,425,000 [1])
2	London	United Kingdom	14,534,000 in 2006(E) (7,517,700)[1]
3	Rhine-Ruhr	Germany	11,716,845 in 2005[2]
4	Paris	France	11,633,822 in 2006(E) (2,142,800)[3]
5	Istanbul	Turkey	11,332,000 (8,803,468)
6	Randstad	Netherlands	7,500,000
7	Madrid	Spain	5,843,041 in 2005 (3,155,359)[4]
8	St. Petersburg	Russia	5,550,000 (4,669,400)
9	Rome	Italy	5,304,778 in 2003(2,546,804)[5]
10	Frankfurt Rhine Main Area	Germany	5,200,485 in 2003(641,076)[6]
11	Berlin	Germany	4,935,524 in 2003(3,388,434)[7]
12	Milan	Italy	4,280,820(1,308,500)
13	Stuttgart Region	Germany	4,100,000 (587,152)
14	Hamburg Metropolitan Region	Germany	4,079,032 in 2003(1,726,363)[8]
15	Athens	Greece	3,894,573 in 2003(745,514)[9]
16	Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area	Poland	3,487,000 in 2006 (Katowice 315,123)
17	Kiev	Ukraine	3,200,000 (2,611,000)
18	Barcelona [2]	Spain	3.135.758 in 2005 (1,593,075)[10]
19	Venetian triangle	Italy	3,100,000 (Venice, Mestre, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso)
20	Naples	Italy	3,059,196 in 2003(1,004,500)[11]
21	Warsaw	Poland	2,870,000 in 2006 (1,692,854)
22	Lisbon	Portugal	2,763,470 in 2003(564,657)[12]
23	Budapest	Hungary	2,550,000 (1,775,203)
24	Greater Manchester	United Kingdom	2,512,300 in 2003(402,889) [13]
25	Rhine Neckar Area	Germany	2,500,000
26	Munich	Germany	2,446,014 in 2003 (1,277,537)[14]
27	Leeds / West Yorkshire	United Kingdom	2,360,655 in 2003(424,194)[15]
28	Birmingham / West Midlands	United Kingdom	2,335,652 in 2003 (965,928)[16]
29	Bucharest	Romania	2,300,000 (2,082,000)
30	Alma (Aachen, Luttich, Maastricht, Hasselt)	Netherlands  Belgium Germany	2,300,000
31	Porto	Portugal	2,089,118 in 2003 (263,131)[17]
32	Belgrade	Serbia	2,000,000 (1,576,124) 2002 sources
33	Brussels	Belgium	1,975,000 (1,006,749)
34	Donetsk	Ukraine	1,925,000 (1,016,000)
35	Nizhniy Novgorod	Russia	1,925,000 (1,311,200)
36	Kharkiv	Ukraine	1,850,000 (1,470,000)
37	Minsk	Belarus	1,850,000 (1,719,000)
38	Vienna	Austria	1,850,000 (1,550,123)
39	Stockholm	Sweden	1,823,210 in 2003(774,411) [18]
40	Saxon triangle	Germany	1,815,650 in 2003(990,000 Dresden and Leipzig)[19]
41	Sheffield / South Yorkshire	United Kingdom	1,811,700 (611,200)
42	Copenhagen	Denmark	1,806,667 in 2003(501,158)[20]
43	Turin	Italy	1,800,000 (865,263)
44	Greater Glasgow	United Kingdom	1,749,154 in 2003(629,501)[21]
45	Lyon	France	1,705,000 in 2004 (445,452 in 1999)[22]
46	Dublin	Ireland	1,661,185 in 2005 (505,739) on 23 April, 2006[23]
47	Valencia	Spain	1,623,724 (796,549)
48	Liverpool / Merseyside	United Kingdom	1,589,319 (481,786),
49	Marseille	France	1,551,000 in 2004 (798,430 in 1999)
50	Yekaterinburg	Russia	1,500,000 (1,293,000)
51	Dnipropetrovsk	Ukraine	1,425,000 (1,065,000)
52	Samara	Russia	1,375,000 (1,158,100)
52	Volgograd	Russia	1,375,000 (1,012,800)
53	Seville	Spain	1,317,098 (704,154)
54	Florence	Italy	1,300,000 (356,118)
55	Prague	Czech Republic	1,300,000 (1,161,938)
56	Kassel	Germany	1,265,000 (194,419)
57	Helsinki	Finland	1,225,000 (559,716)
58	Sofia	Bulgaria	1,225,000 (1,096,389)
59	Greater Nottingham	United Kingdom	1,220,000
60	Zagreb	Croatia	1,200,000 (973,667 in 2005)
61	Bari	Italy	1,200,000 (328.458)
62	Cracow	Poland	1,200,000 (757,957)
63	Kazan	Russia	1,175,000
64	Rostov-on-Don	Russia	1,175,000
65	Lille	France/ Belgium	1,143,125 in 2003 (212,597 in 1999)[24]
66	Hanover	Germany	1,126,000 (516,415)
67	Saratov	Russia	1,115,000 (873,500)
68	Odessa	Ukraine	1,125,000
69	Ufa	Russia	1,125,000
70	Łódź	Poland	1,100,000 (793,217)
71	Perm	Russia	1,100,000
72	Zurich	Switzerland	1,091,732 (364,558 in 2002)
73	Oslo	Norway	1,090,012 (529,846 in 2005)
75	Tyne and Wear	United Kingdom	1,085,700 (Sunderland: 280,807 in 2004; Newcastle: 189,150)
76	Gdańsk	Poland	1,080,700 (459 072)
77	Toulouse	France	1,075,000 in 2004 (426,700 in 2004)
78	Málaga	Spain	1,074,074 (558,287)
79	Nuremberg	Germany	1,050,000 (491,307)

References and notes

1. ^ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Eurostat (2006-09-19). Retrieved on 2006-09-19.. The 2006 estimate has been verified versus the 2003 statistic.
2. ^ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Eurostat (2006-09-19). Retrieved on 2006-09-19.. Calculation on basis of Eurostat numbers and recent growth rates. Verified against the World Gazetteer number.
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22. ^ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Eurostat (2006-09-19). Retrieved on 2006-09-19.. The 2004 statistic has been verified against the 2003 statistic.
23. ^ Includes Dublin Region and the adjacent counties of Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow. Population figure is derived from the 2006 census. Note that the Greater Dublin Area is a planning region that includes substantial rural territory (land area of 6,980 km²). The metropolitan area itself is often taken to be the Dublin Region with a population of 1,187,000.
24. ^ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Eurostat (2006-09-19). Retrieved on 2006-09-19.

See also

• Largest cities and metropolitan areas in the European Union (Eurostat)
• 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 for only the cities proper, at the center of the metropolitan areas
• Largest Cities (25,000+) of Europe by number of headquarters
• List of metropolitan areas by population for the world
• Largest metropolitan areas in the Americas

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