List of urban areas in Europe
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- This is a list of urban areas. For a list of cities proper, see List of European cities by population within city limits. For a list of cities by country, see Lists of cities in Europe.
This is a list of urban areas in Europe, with 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
Within the European Union
| Urban area name | Country | UN WUP
(2007)[1] |
UN WUP
(2015)[2] |
City Population
(2011)[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam |  Netherlands |
1,049,000 | 1,970,000 | |
| Antwerp |  Belgium |
965,000 | 1,017,197 | |
| Athens |  Greece |
3,257,000 | 3,051,899 | 3,775,000 |
| Barcelona |  Spain |
5,083,000 | 5,258,319 | 4,500,000 |
| Belgrade |  Serbia |
1,617,000 | 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 | 2,650,000 |
| 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 | |
| Dnipropetrovsk | Ukraine |
1,004,000 | 1,360,000 | |
| Dublin |  Ireland |
1,274,000 | 1,100,000 | |
| Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Region | Germany |
Not listed | 1,940,000 | |
| Greater Glasgow | United Kingdom |
1,170,000 | 1,430,000 | |
| The Hague | Netherlands |
Not listed | 2,900,000[4] | |
| Hamburg | Germany |
1,786,000 | 2,625,000 | |
| Helsinki |  Finland |
1,115,000 | 1,120,000 | |
| Istanbul[5] |  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 | |
| Kiev | 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 | 2,250,000 | |
| Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai |  France/ Belgium |
1,033,000 | 1,240,000[6] | |
| Lisbon |  Portugal |
2,824,000 | 2,884,297 | 2,575,000 |
| Liverpool | United Kingdom |
819,000 | 1,350,000 | |
| London urban area | United Kingdom |
8,631,000 | 10,313,307 | 12,500,000 |
| 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 | 2,625,000 |
| Marseille | France |
1,469,000 | 1,470,000 | |
| Milan |  Italy |
3,115,392 | 3,098,974 | 4,575,000 |
| 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 | 4,150,000 |
| Nice | France |
941,000 | Not listed | |
| Nizhniy Novgorod | Russia |
1,267,000 | 1,760,000 | |
| Nuremberg | Germany |
Not listed | 1,060,000 | |
| Odessa | 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 | 10,500,000 |
| 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[7] (Düsseldorf-Neuss) | Germany |
Not listed | 1,220,000[8] | |
| Rhein-Süd[7] (Cologne/Bonn Region) | Germany |
1,001,000[9] | 1,900,000[9] | |
| Rome | Italy |
3,362,000 | 3,717,956 | 3,300,000 |
| Rostov-on-Don | Russia |
1,046,000 | 1,190,000 | |
| Rotterdam | Netherlands |
1,010,000 | 2,900,000[10] | |
| Ruhr area | Germany |
Not listed | 4,650,000[11] | |
| 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 | |
| South Yorkshire (Sheffield) | United Kingdom |
Not listed | 1,330,000 | |
| Stuttgart | Germany |
Not listed | 1,980,000 | |
| Thessaloniki urban area | Greece |
837,000 | Not listed | |
| Turin | Italy |
1,665,000 | 1,690,000 | |
| Newcastle-Sunderland | United Kingdom |
891,000 | 1,110,000 | |
| 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 in the European Union (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
- ↑ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision), (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, 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.
- ↑ Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, City Population. Data for 2011-04-01. Accessed on 2009-03-12.
- ↑ Includes Rotterdam
- ↑ 65% of the population lives on the European part
- ↑ Includes Kortrijk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Polycentric metropolitan area
- ↑ Excludes Duisburg, Krefeld, Mönchen-Gladbach
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Excludes Bonn
- ↑ Includes The Hague
- ↑ Includes Duisburg
