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This is a list of metropolitan areas. For a list of urban areas, see Largest urban areas of the European Union
Largest urban areas of the European Union
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.-Important...

. For a list of cities proper, see Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits
Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits
This is a list of the largest cities in the European Union by population within city limits which have more than 300,000 inhabitants. It deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries as opposed to urban areas or metropolitan areas, which are generally larger in terms of...

. For a list of European cities by country, see List of cities in Europe.

This is a list of metropolitan area
Metropolitan area
The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually encompasses multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships,...

s in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, with their population according to five different sources. The list includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.

Figures in the first column come from the ESPON project, "Study on Urban Functions", which defines cities according to the concept of a functional urban area (core urban area defined morphologically on the basis of population density, plus the surrounding labour pool defined on the basis of commuting).

Figures in the second column come from Eurostat

Eurostat

Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide the European Union with statistical information at European level and to promote the integration of statistical methods across the Member States of the European Union,...

's Urban Audit and correspond to Larger Urban Zones (LUZ). Figures in the third column come from the UN

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

's World Urbanization Prospects and correspond to urban areas.

Figures in the fourth column come from the OECD Territorial Reviews and correspond to "metropolitan regions". Figures in the last column come from the citypopulation.de website and correspond to urban agglomerations. 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.

Metropolitan areas

Metropolitan area name	Country	ESPON 1.4.3	Urban Audit	UN WUP	OECD	Citypopulation.de
Amsterdam metropolitan area Amsterdam Metropolitan Area The Amsterdam metropolitan area is a name given to the monocentric metropolitan area around the Dutch capital Amsterdam...	Netherlands	2,497,000	1,443,258 (2004)	1,049,000	7,500,000	1,970,000
Antwerp	Belgium	1,406,000	938,904	965,000	No data	Not listed
Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...	Greece	3,761,000	4,013,368 (2004)	3,257,000	3,900,000	3,775,000
Barcelona metropolitan area Barcelona metropolitan area This article is about the metropolitan area. For the administrative area, see Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona .Barcelona metropolitan area is the metropolitan area in Catalonia, north of Spain, centered on the city of Barcelona...	Spain	4,082,000	4,440,629	5,083,000	4,900,000	4,500,000
Baku Baku Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...	Azerbaijan	No data	No data	1,972,000	No data	1,940,000
Belgrade Belgrade Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...	Serbia	No data	No data	1,617,000	No data	1,750,000
Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...	Germany	4,016,000	5,025,272	3,450,000	6,000,000	4,325,000
Bremen Bremen The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...	Germany	1,077,000	1,247,139	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Greater Bristol Greater Bristol Greater Bristol is a term used for the conurbation which contains and surrounds the city of Bristol in the South West of England. There is no official "Greater Bristol" authority, but the term is sometimes used by local, regional and national authorities, and others as a synonym for either the...	United Kingdom	1,041,000	1,071,000	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Brussels-Capital Region	Belgium	2,639,000	1,885,319	1,904,000	3,800,000	1,910,000
Bucharest metropolitan area Bucharest metropolitan area According to Eurostat, Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, has a Larger Urban Zone of 2,151,880 residents on an area of 662 km2.The Bucharest metropolitan area is a proposed metropolitan area project that includes Bucharest and surrounding communes...	Kingdom of Romania	2,064,000	2,176,117	1,934,000	No data	2,075,000
Budapest metropolitan area Budapest metropolitan area The Budapest Metropolitan Area is a metropolitan area in Central Hungary. It consists of Budapest capital and the surrounding suburbs. It has a population of 2.525 million...	Hungary	2,523,000	2,475,737	1,706,000	2,800,000	2,525,000
Cardiff Cardiff Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...	United Kingdom	1,097,000	861,400	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Copenhagen metropolitan area Copenhagen metropolitan area The Copenhagen metropolitan area around the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, has a population of 1,834,492 and an area of 2,861.41 km²-Composition:The area consists of:...	Denmark	1,881,000	1,822,569 (2004)	1,186,000	2,400,000	1,420,000
Donetsk Donetsk Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...	Ukraine	No data	No data	966,000	No data	1,450,000
Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...	Ukraine	No data	No data	1,004,000	No data	1,360,000
Dublin Metropolitan Area Dublin Metropolitan Area Dublin Metropolitan Area is a term used by various bodies to describe the area of Dublin, Ireland, and its surrounding counties which have an urban designation; between these bodies its definition is not always consistent.-Garda usage:...	Republic of Ireland	1,477,000	1,534,426 (2004)	1,099,000	1,600,000	1,100,000
Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Region	Germany	2,764,000	2,531,970	Not listed	5,600,000	1,940,000
Greater Glasgow Greater Glasgow Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of Glasgow, forming with it a single contiguous urban area...	United Kingdom	1,395,000	1,755,300	1,170,000	No data	1,430,000
The Hague The Hague The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...	Netherlands	1,404,000	978,161 (2004)	Not listed	7,500,000	2,900,000
Hamburg Metropolitan Region Hamburg Metropolitan Region The Metropolregion Hamburg is the compilation of 8 rural districts in the German federal state of Lower Saxony, 6 districts in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and the city-state of Hamburg in northern Germany...	Germany	2,983,000	3,187,338	1,786,000	4,600,000	2,625,000
Helsinki Metropolitan Area	Finland	1,285,000	1,279,685	1,115,000	1,800,000	1,120,000
Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...	Turkey	No data	11,044,642 (2004)	10,525,000	11,400,000	13,000,000
Katowice metropolitan area	Poland	3,029,000	2,710,397 (2004)	Not listed	No data	2,450,000
Kazan Kazan Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...	Russia	No data	No data	1,140,000	No data	1,140,000
Kharkiv Kharkiv Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...	Ukraine	No data	No data	1,453,000	No data	1,590,000
Kiev metropolitan area Kiev metropolitan area The Kiev metropolitan area is an agglomeration consisting of the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, its satellite towns and nearest rural areas closely bound to the city by employment and commerce....	Ukraine	No data	No data	2,805,000	No data	3,225,000
Kraków metropolitan area	Poland	1,236,000	1,276,438	756,000	2,100,000	Not listed
West Yorkshire West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972.... (Bradford Bradford Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897... & Leeds Leeds Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial... )	United Kingdom	2,302,000	2,393,300 (2004)	1,547,000	2,100,000	2,250,000
Lille Lille Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium... -Kortrijk Kortrijk Kortrijk ; , ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders...	Early Modern France/ Belgium	1,161,000	1,223,173 (2004)	1,033,000	2,600,000	1,240,000
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Lisbon Metropolitan Area Lisbon Metropolitan Area is a territorial zone that includes 18 municipalities in Portugal. The smaller Grande Lisboa area is a subregion of the NUTS II Lisbon Region by its own right....	Portugal	2,591,000	2,467,484	2,824,000	2,700,000	2,575,000
Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...	United Kingdom	2,241,000	1,350,200	819,000	No data	1,350,000
Łódź	Poland	1,165,000	1,139,405	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Greater London London commuter belt The London commuter belt is the metropolitan area surrounding London, England from which it is practical to commute to work in the capital. It is alternatively known as the Greater South East, the London metropolitan area or the Southeast metropolitan area...	United Kingdom	13,709,000	12,317,800	8,631,000	7,400,000	12,500,000
Lyon Lyon Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....	Early Modern France	1,787,000	1,748,271 (2004)	1,468,000	1,600,000	1,470,000
Madrid metropolitan area Madrid metropolitan area The Madrid Metropolitan Area comprises the city of Madridand forty surrounding municipalities. It has a populationof slightly more than 6.4 million people and covers an areaof 4.609,7 km²...	Spain	5,263,000	6,271,638	5,851,000	5,600,000	6,500,000
Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...	United Kingdom	2,556,000	2,580,000	2,253,000	2,500,000	2,625,000
Marseille Marseille Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...	Early Modern France	1,530,000	No data	1,469,000	No data	1,470,000
Milan metropolitan area Milan metropolitan area The Milan metropolitan area, known as Grande Milano , is the urban agglomeration around the city of Milan, Italy.The spatial spread of the Milan metropolitan area has greatly accelerated over recent decades...	Italy	4,136,000	3,076,643	3,115,392	7,400,000	4,575,000
Minsk Minsk - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...	Belarus	No data	No data	1,852,000	No data	1,860,000
Moscow metropolitan area Moscow metropolitan area Moscow metropolitan area or Moscow capital region is the largest metropolitan area in Russia and Europe, with population of about 15 million people.- Structure of Moscow metropolitan area :...	Russia	No data	No data	10,550,000	No data	14,800,000
Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...	Germany	2,665,000	2,644,807	1,349,000	6,100,000	2,025,000
Naples metropolitan area Naples metropolitan area The Naples metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration centred around the city of Naples in Campania, Italy.The total population of Province of Naples is 3,092,859, the third metropolitan area in Italy by population, 969,061 of this coincides with the city of Naples...	Italy	2,905,000	2,239,330	2,276,000	3,100,000	4,150,000
Nizhniy Novgorod	Russia	No data	No data	1,267,000	No data	1,760,000
Nottingham Nottingham Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group... -Derby Derby Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...	United Kingdom	1,534,000	856,900	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Nuremberg Nuremberg Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...	Germany	1,443,000	1,299,016	Not listed	No data	1,060,000
Odessa Odessa Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...	Ukraine	No data	No data	1,009,000	No data	1,070,000
Greater Oslo	Norway	1,037,000	1,162,255	888,000	1,700,000	Not listed
Paris metropolitan area Paris metropolitan area The Paris aire urbaine is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Paris and its surrounding urban area...	Early Modern France	11,175,000	11,532,409 (2004)	10,485,000	11,200,000	10,500,000
Perm	Russia	No data	No data	982,000	No data	1,040,000
Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto The Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto is a metropolitan area in coastal northern Portugal which covers 16 municipalities, including the City of Porto, making up the second biggest urban area in the country...	Portugal	1,245,000	1,109,990	1,355,000	No data	1,240,000
Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island... -Southampton Southampton Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...	United Kingdom	1,547,000	506,800	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Prague Prague Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...	Czech Republic	1,669,000	2,099,282	1,162,000	2,300,000	1,390,000
Rhein-Nord (Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the... -Neuss Neuss Neuss is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf. Neuss is the largest city within the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district and owes its prosperity to its location at the crossing of historic and modern trade routes. It is primarily known... )	Germany	3,073,000	1,527,018	Not listed	13,400,000	1,220,000
Rhein-Süd (Cologne/Bonn Region Cologne/Bonn Region The Cologne/Bonn Region , also known as Cologne/Bonn Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan area in North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, covering the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen, as well as the districts of Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Oberbergischer Kreis, Rhein-Erft-Kreis and Rhein-Sieg-Kreis... )	Germany	3,070,000	1,898,438	1,001,000	13,400,000	1,900,000
Riga Riga Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...	Latvia	1,195,000	1,003,949 (2004)	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Rome metropolitan area Rome metropolitan area The Rome metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration centred around the city of Rome, the Italian capital, in Lazio, Italy.The total population of Province of Rome is 4,184,293, the second metropolitan area in Italy after Milan, 2,745,000 coincides with the city of Rome.The metropolitan area is...	Italy	3,190,000	3,695,148	3,362,000	3,700,000	3,300,000
Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don -History:The mouth of the Don River has been of great commercial and cultural importance since the ancient times. It was the site of the Greek colony Tanais, of the Genoese fort Tana, and of the Turkish fortress Azak...	Russia	No Data	No data	1,046,000	No data	1,190,000
Rotterdam Rotterdam Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...	Netherlands	1,904,000	1,186,818 (2004)	1,010,000	7,500,000	2,900,000
Ruhr area Ruhr Area The Ruhr, by German-speaking geographers and historians more accurately called Ruhr district or Ruhr region , is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With 4435 km² and a population of some 5.2 million , it is the largest urban agglomeration in Germany... (Essen Essen - Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of... – Bochum Bochum Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:... – Dortmund Dortmund Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union.... )	Germany	5,376,000	5,203,100	Not listed	13,400,000	4,650,000
Saarbrücken Saarbrücken Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live.... - Forbach Forbach Forbach is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.It is located near the German border. Population : 22,784....	Germany/ Early Modern France	1,102,000	832,617	Not listed	No data	Not listed
Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...	Russia	No data	No data	4,575,000	No data	4,775,000
Samara Samara, Russia Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...	Russia	No data	No data	1,131,000	No data	1,270,000
Saratov Saratov -Modern Saratov:The Saratov region is highly industrialized, due in part to the rich in natural and industrial resources of the area. The region is also one of the more important and largest cultural and scientific centres in Russia...	Russia	No data	No data	822,000	No data	1,070,000
Seville Seville Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...	Spain	1,180,000	1,307,097	Not listed	No data	1,340,000
Sofia Sofia Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...	Kingdom of Bulgaria	1,174,000	1,334,782	1,196,000	No data	1,260,000
Metropolitan Stockholm	Sweden	1,890,000	1,981,263	1,285,000	2,200,000	2,075,000
South Yorkshire South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield... (Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely... )	United Kingdom	1,569,000	1,308,600	Not listed	No data	1,330,000
Stuttgart Metropolitan Region Stuttgart Metropolitan Region The Stuttgart Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan region in Germany consisting of the cities of Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Tübingen/Reutlingen. These cities are arranged into three agglomeration areas...	Germany	2,665,000	2,674,527	Not listed	2,700,000	1,980,000
Tbilisi Tbilisi Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...	Georgia (country)	No data	No data	1,120,000	No data	1,220,000
Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area The Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area or Larger Urban Zone is the complete area covered and directly influenced by Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki. The metropolitan area traditionally consisted of the municipality of Thessaloniki and its immediate surroundings, what is today referred to as...	Greece	1,052,000	995,766 (2004)	837,000	No data	Not listed
Turin metropolitan area Turin metropolitan area The Turin metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration centred around the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy. It is defined statistically and does not correspond to a single area of local government...	Italy	1,601,000	1,773,747	1,665,000	2,200,000	1,690,000
Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in north east England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972...	United Kingdom	1,599,000	1,067,400	891,000	No data	1,110,000
Ufa Ufa -Demographics:Nationally, dominated by Russian , Bashkirs and Tatars . In addition, numerous are Ukrainians , Chuvash , Mari , Belarusians , Mordovians , Armenian , Germans , Jews , Azeris .-Government and administration:Local...	Russia	No data	No data	1,023,000	No data	1,040,000
Valencia Valencia (city in Spain) Valencia or València is the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third largest city in Spain, with a population of 809,267 in 2010. It is the 15th-most populous municipality in the European Union...	Spain	1,398,000	1,670,682	814,000	2,300,000	1,780,000
Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...	Austria	2,584,000	2,285,988	1,706,000	2,200,000	2,025,000
Volgograd Volgograd Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...	Russia	No data	No data	977,000	No data	1,360,000
Warsaw metropolitan area	Poland	2,785,000	2,726,829	1,712,000	3,000,000	2,225,000
West Midlands West Midlands conurbation The West Midlands conurbation is the name given to the large conurbation that includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the large towns of Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge, Halesowen in the English West Midlands.... (Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a... )	United Kingdom	3,683,000	2,401,900	2,302,000	2,600,000	2,650,000
Yerevan Yerevan Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...	Armenia	No data	No data	1,112,000	No data	1,230,000
Zürich metropolitan area	Switzerland	1,615,000	1,160,687	1,150,000	2,500,000	1,180,000

Polycentric metropolitan areas

Rank	Area	State	Population
1	London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...		13,709,000
2	Rhein-Ruhr		12,190,000
3	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...		11,175,000
4	Randstad Holland		6,787,000
5	Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...		6,011,000
6	Upper Silesian metropolitan area	/	5,294,000
7	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...		5,263,000
8	Flemish Diamond Flemish Diamond The Flemish Diamond is one of the larger European metropolitan regions, situated in the central provinces of Flanders and the capital region of Belgium.Herman Deweerdt : Het is zeker waar dat de Vlaamse ruit een centrum van economische activiteit is en dus een zeer belangrijke basis vormt voor de...		5,103,000
9	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...		4,251,000
10	Rhein-Main Region		4,149,000

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Largest Cities (25,000+) of Europe by number of headquarters

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Metropolitan areas

Polycentric metropolitan areas

See also

Regional and country-specific lists

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