Largest European 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) 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.

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Rank Metropolitan area name Country Population of metropolitan area Population of municipality
1 Moscow  Russia 14,744,150 10,425,075 (2006)
2[1] Istanbul  Turkey 13,179,865 11,372,613 (2007)
3[1] London  United Kingdom 13,063,441[1] 7,517,700 (2005)
4 Paris  France 11,818,503 2,153,600 (2005)
5 Rhine-Ruhr  Germany 11,817,132[2] Cologne (983,347); Essen (585,430); Dusseldorf (574,514)
6 Randstad  Netherlands 6,579,720[2] 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[2] 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[2] Katowice (313,461); Sosnowiec (223,284); Gliwice (197,874); Zabrze (189,656); Bytom (185,793); (June 2007)[3]
23 Copenhagen-Malmö  Denmark/ Sweden 2,387,192[2] 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)[3]
27 Alma (Aachen, Liège, Maastricht)  Netherlands

 Belgium
 Germany

 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 (761,000); Bradford (477,770); Wakefield (320,600)
32 Stockholm[4]  Sweden 1,964,805 802,611 (2008)
33 Lille-Kortrijk  France/  Belgium 1,902,966 Lille (225,100)
34 Lyon  France 1,798,395 466,400 (2005)
35 Nizhniy Novgorod  Russia 1,794,960 1,283,553 (2006)
36 Belgrade  Serbia 1,766,534 1,120,092[5] (2002)
37 Minsk  Belarus 1,753,547[6] 1,765,800 (2005)
38 Turin  Italy 1,690,119 900,608 (2006)
39 Greater Glasgow  United Kingdom 1,633,187 632,000 (August 2007)[7]
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[2] 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 1,224,000 (2008)
51 Halle-Leipzig  Germany 1,388,578[2] 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[8]  Portugal 1,299,713 227,790
56 Yekaterinburg  Russia - 1,293,058
57 South Yorkshire  United Kingdom 1,267,139 Sheffield (446,300); Doncaster (289,600); Rotherham (253,200)
58 Helsinki  Finland 1,262,805 571,354 (2008)
59 Sofia  Bulgaria 1,205,048 1,138,950 (2004)
60 Nürnberg  Germany 1,204,542 499,237 (2005)
61 Bremen  Germany 1,184,407 546,852 (2005)
62 Chemnitz-Zwickau  Germany 1,178,838[2] Chemnitz (246,587); Zwickau (97,382)
63 Antwerp  Belgium 1,147,776 461,496 (2006)
64 Bilbao  Spain 1,143,876 354,145 (2006)
65 Portsmouth-Southampton  United Kingdom 1,139,866 Portsmouth (196,400); Southampton (228,600)
66 Toulouse  France 1,133,105 435,000 (2005)
67 Odessa  Ukraine 1,125,816 1,007,131 (2005)
68 Hannover  Germany 1,112,463 515,729 (2005)
69 Saarbrucken-Forbach  Germany
 France		 1,102,945 Saarbrucken (178,914)
70 Kazan  Russia 1,093,748[6] 1,112,673 (2006)
71 Zagreb  Croatia 1,088,841[9] (2001) 779,145 (2001)
72 Saratov  Russia 1,079,220 850,086 (2006)
73 Dresden  Germany 1,075,299 495,181 (2005)
74 Dublin  Ireland 1,058,265 506,211 (2006)
75 Nottingham  United Kingdom 1,025,970 286,400 (2006)
76 Zürich  Switzerland 1,025,499 347,517 (2006)
77 Bordeaux  France 1,009,051 229,500 (2005)
78 Ufa  Russia 1,006,121[6] 1,029,616 (2006)
79 Palermo  Italy 1,000,820 670,820 (2006)

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'.

  1. ^ a b c Demographia "London Metropolitan Area Population from 1891". Retrieved on 2008-08-24. gives the 2001 figure for London as 13,945,000, which would place it second in the table, with Istanbul then being third
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Multicentric urban area
  3. ^ 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. 
  4. ^ Defined by Statistics Sweden to be equivalent to Stockholm County (covering an area of 6,519 km²) [1] [2].
  5. ^ 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. 
  6. ^ a b c Metropolitan area definition is the same as the city proper
  7. ^ "2007 Population Estimates". Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
  8. ^ The United Nations agglomeration figure (defined as the statistical entity known as the area metropolitana) for 2005 is 1,309,000 [3]. 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 [4].
  9. ^ Figure represents total for Zagreb County and Zagreb City

See also
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