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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 many cases, the list of Largest urban areas of the European Union would give figures that better reflects 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 the most urban areas. As in the rest of the world, metropolitan areas in Europe are much debated, and widely different figures are given for the same place by different sources (including Wikipedia's own worldwide list of metropolitan areas by population, which is based on different underlying sources). These figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive facts. 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, and are considered to be "cities" by few people, if any at all.

Rank Metropolitan area name Country Population
1 London Template:Country data flagcountry 15,500,000 (10,387,900)
2 Moscow Template:Country data flagcountry 14,520,000 (9,425,000 [1])
3 Rhine-Ruhr Template:Country data flagcountry 12,785,196
4 Paris Template:Country data flagcountry 11,570,000 in 2005 (2,142,800)
5 Istanbul Template:Country data flagcountry 11,332,000 (8,803,468)
6 Milan Template:Country data flagcountry 7,500,000 (1,308,500)
7 Randstad Template:Country data flagcountry 7,500,000
8 Madrid Template:Country data flagcountry 5,843,041 (3,155,359)
9 St. Petersburg Template:Country data flagcountry 5,550,000 (4,669,400)
10 Greater Frankfurt Template:Country data flagcountry 5,200,000 (641,076)
11 Barcelona [2] Template:Country data flagcountry 5,082,126 (1,593,075)
12 Berlin Template:Country data flagcountry 4,200,000 (3,388,434)
13 Naples Template:Country data flagcountry 4,200,000 (1,004,500)
14 Hamburg Metropolitan Region Template:Country data flagcountry 4,000,000 (1,726,363)
15 Rome Template:Country data flagcountry 3,800,000 (2,546,804)
16 Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area Template:Country data flagcountry 3,500,000 (2 143 000)
17 Athens Template:Country data flagcountry 3,500,000 (745,514)
18 Kiev Template:Country data flagcountry 3,200,000 (2,611,000)
19 Saxon triangle Template:Country data flagcountry 3,200,000 (990,000 Dresden and Leipzig)
20 Venetian triangle Template:Country data flagcountry 3,100,000 (Venezia, Mestre, Padova, Vicenza, Treviso
21 Birmingham / West Midlands Template:Country data flagcountry 3,043,985 (965,928)
22 Lisbon Template:Country data flagcountry 2,900,000 (564,657)
23 Stuttgart Region Template:Country data flagcountry 2,700,000 (587,152)
24 Budapest Template:Country data flagcountry 2,550,000 (1,775,203)
25 Munich Template:Country data flagcountry 2,500,000 (1,277,537)
26 Rhine Neckar Area Template:Country data flagcountry 2,500,000
27 Warsaw Template:Country data flagcountry 2,400,000 (1,690,821)
28 Bucharest Template:Country data flagcountry 2,300,000 (2,082,000)
29 Brabantse Stedenrij Template:Country data flagcountry 2,300,000
30 Manchester / Greater Manchester Template:Country data flagcountry 2,180,200 (402,889)
31 Leeds / West Yorkshire Template:Country data flagcountry 2,100,000 (424,194)
32 Belgrade Template:Country data flagcountry 2,000,000 (1,576,124) 2002 sources
33 Brussels Template:Country data flagcountry 1,975,000 (1,006,749)
34 Donetsk Template:Country data flagcountry 1,925,000 (1,016,000)
35 Nizhniy Novgorod Template:Country data flagcountry 1,925,000 (1,311,200)
37 Kharkiv Template:Country data flagcountry 1,850,000 (1,470,000)
38 Minsk Template:Country data flagcountry 1,850,000 (1,719,000)
39 Vienna Template:Country data flagcountry 1,850,000 (1,550,123)
40 Lille Template:Country data flagcountry/Template:Country data flagcountry 1,813,000 in 2004 (212,597 in 1999)
41 Sheffield / South Yorkshire Template:Country data flagcountry 1,811,700 (611,200)
43 Turin Template:Country data flagcountry 1,800,000 (865,263)
44 Stockholm Template:Country data flagcountry 1,729,274 (774,411) March 31, 2006 [1]
45 Lyon Template:Country data flagcountry 1,705,000 in 2004 (445,452 in 1999)
46 Dublin Template:Country data flagcountry 1,661,185 (505,739) on 23 April, 2006[2]
47 Valencia Template:Country data flagcountry 1,623,724 (796,549)
48 Liverpool / Merseyside Template:Country data flagcountry 1,589,319 (481,786),
49 Glasgow / Greater Glasgow Template:Country data flagcountry 1,575,000 (629,501)
50 Porto Template:Country data flagcountry 1,551,950 in 2001 (263,131)
51 Marseille Template:Country data flagcountry 1,551,000 in 2004 (798,430 in 1999)
52 Yekaterinburg Template:Country data flagcountry 1,500,000 (1,293,000)
53 Dnipropetrovsk Template:Country data flagcountry 1,425,000 (1,065,000)
54 Samara Template:Country data flagcountry 1,375,000 (1,158,100)
55 Volgograd Template:Country data flagcountry 1,375,000 (1,012,800)
56 Seville Template:Country data flagcountry 1,317,098 (704,154)
57 Florence Template:Country data flagcountry 1,300,000 (356,118)
58 Prague Template:Country data flagcountry 1,300,000 (1,161,938)
59 Kassel Template:Country data flagcountry 1,265,000 (194,419)
60 Helsinki Template:Country data flagcountry 1,225,000 (559,716)
61 Sofia Template:Country data flagcountry 1,225,000 (1,096,389)
62 Nottingham / Greater Nottingham Template:Country data flagcountry 1,220,000
63 Zagreb Template:Country data flagcountry 1,200,000 (973,667 in 2005)
64 Bari Template:Country data flagcountry 1,200,000 (328.458)
65 Kraków Template:Country data flagcountry 1,200,000 (757,957)
66 Kazan Template:Country data flagcountry 1,175,000
67 Rostov Template:Country data flagcountry 1,175,000
68 Hanover Template:Country data flagcountry 1,126,000 (516,415)
69 Saratov Template:Country data flagcountry 1,115,000 (873,500)
70 Odessa Template:Country data flagcountry 1,125,000
71 Ufa Template:Country data flagcountry 1,125,000
72 Copenhagen Template:Country data flagcountry 1,086,762 [3] (501,158)
73 Łódź Template:Country data flagcountry 1,100,000 (793,217)
74 Perm Template:Country data flagcountry 1,100,000
75 Zurich Template:Country data flagcountry 1,091,732 (364,558 in 2002)
76 Oslo Template:Country data flagcountry 1,090,012 (529,846 in 2005)
77 Tyne and Wear Template:Country data flagcountry 1,085,700 (Sunderland: 280,807 in 2004; Newcastle: 189,150)
78 Toulouse Template:Country data flagcountry 1,075,000 in 2004 (426,700 in 2004)
79 Málaga Template:Country data flagcountry 1,074,074 (558,287)
80 Nürnberg Template:Country data flagcountry 1,050,000 (491,307)

References and notes

  1. ^ "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31/3/2006 och befolkningsförändringar 1:a kvartalet 2006". Statistics Sweden. 2006-05-11. Retrieved 2006-07-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); See Metropolitan Stockholm for the metropolitan area definition.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 2004 estimate by Statistics Denmark for Greater Copenhagen

See also

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