This list ranks urban areas in Europe by 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. be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive fact.
Urban areas
Urban areaCountryAgglomerations(UN WUP)Urban areas(City Population; 2011)Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, City Population. Data for 2011-04-01. Accessed on 2009-03-12.(2007)United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision) , (United Nations, 2010), Table A.12. Data for 2007.(2015)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.Amsterdam AntwerpAthens Barcelona Belgrade Berlin Birmingham (West Midlands)Brussels-Capital Region Bucharest Budapest CopenhagenDonetsk Dnipro Dublin Frankfurt Rhine-Main Region Not listedNot listedGreater GlasgowThe Hague Not listedHamburg Helsinki Istanbul65% of the population lives on the European part Katowice urban areaNot listedKazan Kharkiv Kyiv KrakówNot listedWest Yorkshire (Bradford–Leeds)Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai/Includes KortrijkLisbon Greater London urban areaLyon Madrid Greater ManchesterMarseille Milan Minsk MoscowMunich Naples Nice Not listedNizhny NovgorodNuremberg Not listedOdesaGreater OsloParis urban area Perm PortoPrague Rhein-NordPolycentric metropolitan area (Düsseldorf–Neuss) Not listedNot listedExcludes Duisburg, Krefeld, MönchengladbachRhein-Süd (Cologne–Bonn Region) Not listedExcludes BonnRome Rostov-on-Don Rotterdam Not listedRotterdam–The HagueNot listedNot listedRuhr area Not listedNot listedIncludes DuisburgSaint Petersburg Samara Saratov Seville Not listedSofia Stockholm urban areaStuttgart Not listedThessaloniki urban area Not listedTurin Ufa Valencia Vienna Volgograd Warsaw Zürich
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 (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
External links Largest Cities (25,000+) of Europe by number of headquarters