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This is a list of all the urban areas of the European Union which have greater than 750,000 inhabitants each in 2011.

This list is an attempt to present a consistent list of population figures for urban areas in the European Union. All the figures here have been compiled by Demographia.

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Important notes

  • This is a list of urban areas, not a list of metropolitan areas. Urban areas are contiguous built-up areas where houses are typically not more than 200 m apart (discounting rivers, parks, roads, industrial fields, etc.). A metropolitan area is an urban area plus the satellite cities around the urban area and the agricultural land in between.
  • This is a list of urban areas, not a list of administrative cities. For example, the list below contains the urban area of Lille-Kortrijk. Lille and Kortrijk remain two very distinct cities, each belonging to a different country, culture and language area. For a list of the largest cities of the European Union by population, please see Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits.
  • The study of urban areas is useful to analyse how cities develop, which in turn can be used to define transportation, planning and environmental policies, to adjust administrative boundaries etc. At the same time its limitations have to be acknowledged. It is a purely geographic study and disregards all other factors that contribute to the analysis of the functional city. For instance, several cities in the European Union such as Brussels and London have introduced green belts which impacts the urban area but not the "perceived city" as these green belts have now become integrated in what people consider to be the functional city. Furthermore the list does not make a difference between cities that have multiple satellites and cities that do not. Therefore two cities with the same demographics for their urban area will have an equal ranking on this list, even if one of the two cities may be much larger as it is the core of a number of satellites.
  • If you are used to higher figures for the cities listed below (London is sometimes listed with 14 million inhabitants, Stuttgart is frequently listed with 2.2 million inhabitants, Munich with 2 million or more, etc.), this is because figures here are only for urban areas, which are typically smaller than metropolitan areas. Urban areas can be computed by private people or institutions using maps and looking where the built-up area stops. Metropolitan areas, which imply much more complicated definitions (such as the proportion of people in satellite cities working in the core of the metropolitan area), can be accurately computed only by statistical offices, after they have chosen a definition for metropolitan areas.

Urban areas over 750,000 inhabitants

Paris
London

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Lisbon
Ruhr area (Dortmund)
Madrid
Milan
Barcelona
Athens
Berlin
Naples
Rome
Katowice (Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area)
Frankfurt


Rank Urban Area State Population
(2011 est.)		 Density (per km²) Annual growth rate (%)
1 Paris  France 10,485,000 3,400 0.83
2 London  United Kingdom 8,585,000 5,100 0.07
3 Ruhr area (Ruhrgebiet)  Germany 7,295,000 2,800 0.01
4 Madrid  Spain 5,410,000 5,500 0.27
5 Milan  Italy 4,360,000 1,800 -0.16
6 Barcelona  Spain 4,210,000 5,100 0.12
7 Berlin  Germany 3,450,000 3,500 0.00
8 Athens  Greece 3,265,000 4,800 0.29
9 Lisbon  Portugal 3,035,000 3,100 0.39
10 Naples  Italy 3,020,000 3,900 -0.13
11 Rome  Italy 2,715,000 3,200 -0.16
12 Katowice (Upper-Silesian Metropolis)  Poland 2,500,000 3,400 0.11
13 Frankfurt  Germany 2,300,000 3,400 0.50
14 West Midlands (Greater Birmingham)  United Kingdom 2,290,000 3,800 -0.03
15 Greater Manchester  United Kingdom 2,240,000 4,000 -0.03
16 Rotterdam-The Hague  Netherlands 2,105,000 2,500 0.39
17 Cologne/Bonn  Germany 2,055,000 2,200 0.50
18 Bucharest  Romania 1,930,000 6,800 0.101
19 Brussels  Belgium 1,900,000 2,500 0.021
20 Hamburg  Germany 1,790,000 2,500 0.431
21 Vienna  Austria 1,715,000 3,800 1.041
22 Warsaw  Poland 1,710,000 3,100 0.67
23 Budapest  Hungary 1,700,000 1,900 -0.19
24 Leeds-Bradford  United Kingdom 1,540,000 4,100 0.241
25 Lyon  France 1,475,000 1,500 0.501
26 Porto  Portugal 1,475,000 3,600 1.051
27 Marseille--Aix-en-Provence  France 1,470,000 1,200 0.461
28 Munich  Germany 1,350,000 2,900 0.721
29 Turin  Italy 1,315,000 2,700 -0.161
30 Stockholm  Sweden 1,285,000 3,300 0.581
31 Stuttgart  Germany 1,270,000 3,000
32 Greater Glasgow  United Kingdom 1,200,000 3,300 0.071
33 Copenhagen  Denmark 1,180,000 2,600 0.041
34 Sofia  Bulgaria 1,175,000 5,700 0.781
35 Prague  Czech Republic 1,150,000 4,000 -0.071
36 Helsinki  Finland 1,125,000 2,300 0.811
37 Dublin  Ireland 1,115,000 2,400 1.141
38 Lille--Kortrijk  France,  Belgium 1,050,000 2,200 0.501
39 Amsterdam  Netherlands 1,050,000 2,500 0.411
40 Nuremberg  Germany 1,020,000 3,000
41 Nice  France 980,000 1,400 0.521
42 Antwerp  Belgium 960,000 1,500 0.051
43 Łódź  Poland 910,000 5,100 -0.671
44 Toulouse  France 905,000 1,100 0.721
45 Tyneside (Greater Newcastle)  United Kingdom 890,000 4,200 0.161
46 Palermo  Italy 875,000 6,000 0.121
47 Bordeaux  France 845,000 800 0.601
48 Thessaloniki  Greece 840,000 4,300 0.391
49 Liverpool Urban Area (Excluding Birkenhead Urban Area)  United Kingdom 815,000 4,400 0.111
50 Valencia  Spain 810,000 3,000 0.291
51 Gdańsk (Tricity)  Poland 775,000 5,000
52 Krakow  Poland 760,000 3,500
53 Florence  Italy 750,000 2,800
54 Riga  Latvia 750,000 2,900
55 Bilbao  Spain 750,000 5,800
56 Seville  Spain 750,000 5,600

Non EU urban areas

EFTA countries

Two European Free Trade Association countries have urban areas that would be included in the list if they were EU member states.

Urban Area State Population Density (per km²) Growth rate (%)
Oslo  Norway 915,000 3,300 0.991
Zürich  Switzerland 740,000 3,000 0.351

Non EFTA Countries

Some very large European urban areas are excluded since they are not part of an EU member state:

Urban Area State Population remarks
Moscow  Russia 13,680,000
Istanbul  Turkey 13,275,000 including the Asian part of the city
Saint Petersburg  Russia 4,555,000
Kiev  Ukraine 2,815,000
Baku  Azerbaijan 1,985,000
Minsk  Belarus 1,855,000
Kharkov  Ukraine 1,450,000
Nizhni Novgorod  Russia 1,270,000
Belgrade  Serbia 1,155,000
Kazan  Russia 1,140,000
Tbilisi  Georgia 1,120,000
Samara  Russia 1,120,000
Yerevan  Armenia 1,110,000
Dnepropetrovsk  Ukraine 1,100,000
Odessa  Ukraine 1,010,000
Donetsk  Ukraine 970,000

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae United Nations: World Urbanization Prospects

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