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 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.
| City name |
Population |
| Moscow, Russia |
14,520,000 (10,420,000) |
| London, UK |
12,500,000 (7,387,900) |
| Rhine-Ruhr, Germany |
11,785,196 (Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Cologne, Bonn) |
| Paris, France |
11,570,000 in 2005 (2,142,800) |
| İstanbul, Turkey |
11,332,000 (only half of the city is in Europe) |
| Milano, Italy, |
7,500,000 (comprising Bergamo, Como, Varese, Lecco, Pavia, Lodi,Novara, Monza, Sesto Calende, Crema) |
| Randstad, Netherlands, |
7,500,000 (comprising Amsterdam, Haarlem, Almere, IJmuiden, Utrecht, Amersfoort,Rotterdam, The Hague, Schiedam, Delft, Leiden and Dordrecht) |
| Madrid, Spain |
5,843,041 (3,155,359) |
| St. Petersburg, Russia |
5,550,000 (4,669,400) |
| Greater Frankfurt, Germany |
5,200,000 (641,076) |
| Barcelona, Spain |
4,686,701 (1,593,075) |
| Berlin, Germany |
4,200,000 (3,388,434) |
| Naples, Italy |
4,200,000 (1,004,500) |
| Hamburg Metropolitan Region, Germany |
4,000,000 (1,726,363) |
| Rome, Italy |
3,800,000 (2,546,804) |
| Athens, Greece |
3,500,000 (745,514) |
| Upper Silesia, Poland |
3,500,800 (340,539, Katowice,Sosnowiec,Gliwice,Bytom,Zabrze) |
| Kyiv, Ukraine |
3,200,000 (2,611,000) |
| Saxon triangle, Germany |
3,200,000 (990,000 Dresden and Leipzig) |
| Manchester, UK |
3,180,200 (402,889) (Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Congleton, High Peak, Macclesfield, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Vale Royal, Warrington, Wigan) |
| Venetian triangle, Italy |
3,100,000 (Venezia, Mestre, Padova, Vicenza, Treviso |
| Lisbon, Portugal |
2,900,000 (564,657) |
| Stuttgart, Germany |
2,700,000 (587,152) |
| Birmingham, UK |
2,600,000 (965,928) |
| Budapest, Hungary |
2,550,000 (1,775,203) |
| Munich, Germany |
2,500,000 (1,277,537) |
| Rhine Neckar Area, Germany |
2,500,000 (Mannheim, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen) |
| Warsaw, Poland |
2,400,000 (1,690,821) |
| Bucharest, Romania |
2,300,000 (2,082,000) |
| Leeds, UK |
2,100,000 (424,194) |
| Brussels, Belgium |
1,975,000 (1,006,749) |
| Donetsk, Ukraine |
1,925,000 (1,016,000) |
| Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia |
1,925,000 (1,311,200) |
| Kharkiv, Ukraine |
1,850,000 (1,470,000) |
| Minsk, Belarus |
1,850,000 (1,719,000) |
| Vienna, Austria |
1,850,000 (1,550,123) |
| Lille, France/Belgium |
1,813,000 in 2004 (212,597 in 1999) (includes Mouscron and Kortrijk, Belgium) |
| Sheffield, UK |
1,811,700 (611,200) |
| Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro |
1,800,000 (1,280,639) |
| Turin, Italy |
1,800,000 (865,263) |
| Lyon, France |
1,705,000 in 2004 (445,452 in 1999) |
| Stockholm, Sweden |
1,700,000 (758,148) |
| Valencia, Spain |
1.623.724 (796,549) |
| Glasgow, UK |
1,575,000 (629,501) |
| Porto, Portugal |
1,551,950 in 2001 (263,131) |
| Marseille, France |
1,551,000 in 2004 (798,430 in 1999) |
| Greater Dublin, Ireland |
1,535,446 (495,101) |
| Yekaterinburg, Russia |
1,500,000 (1,293,000) |
| Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |
1,425,000 (1,065,000) |
| Liverpool, UK |
1,375,000 (481,786) |
| Samara, Russia |
1,375,000 (1,158,100) |
| Volgograd, Russia |
1,375,000 (1,012,800) |
| Seville, Spain |
1.317.098 (704,154) |
| Florence, Italy |
1,300,000 (356,118) |
| Prague, Czech Republic |
1,300,000 (1,161,938) |
| Kassel, Germany |
1,265,000 (194,419) |
| Helsinki, Finland |
1,225,000 (559,716) |
| Sofia, Bulgaria |
1,225,000 (1,096,389) |
| Nottingham, United Kingdom |
1,220,000 |
| Zagreb, Croatia |
1,200,000 (973,667 in 2005) |
| Bari, Italy |
1,200,000 (328.458) |
| Kraków, Poland |
1,200,000 (757,957) |
| Kazan, Russia |
1,175,000 |
| Rostov, Russia |
1,175,000 |
| Hanover, Germany |
1,126,000 (516,415) |
| Saratov, Russia |
1,115,000 (873,500) |
| Odessa, Ukraine |
1,125,000 |
| Ufa, Russia |
1,125,000 |
| Copenhagen, Denmark |
1,100,000 in 2003 (501,285 in 2003) |
| Łódź, Poland |
1,100,000 (793,217) |
| Perm, Russia |
1,100,000 |
| Zurich, Switzerland |
1,091,732 (364,558 in 2002) |
| Oslo, Norway |
1,090,012 (529,846 in 2005) |
| Toulouse, France |
1,075,000 in 2004 (426,700 in 2004) |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
1,075,000 (189,150) |
| Málaga, Spain |
1.074.074 (558.287) |
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| Nürnberg, Germany |
1,050,000 (491,307) |
| Palermo, Italy |
1,000,000 |
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