List of urban areas in the European Union

This is a list of urban areas in the European Union with over 500,000 inhabitants as of 2014. This list is an attempt to present a consistent list of population figures for urban areas in the European Union. Figures here have been compiled by Eurostat, Demographia and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.[1][2][3] Demographia provides figures for urban areas (including conurbations),[2] while the UN DESA figures are for agglomerations only.[3]

Important notes

Urban areas over 500,000 inhabitants (2015)

Rank Urban area Image State Urban areas (Eurostat)[1] Urban areas (Demographia)[2] Agglomerations (UN WUP)[3] Density
(per km2;
Demographia)
Annual growth
rate (%;

Demographia)
1 London  United Kingdom 12,200,000 10,236,000 10,313,307 5,900 0.07
2 Paris  France 11,800,000 10,858,000 10,843,285 3,800 0.83
3 Madrid  Spain 6,600,000 6,171,000 6,199,254 4,600 0.27
4 Ruhr area  Germany 5,100,000 6,679,000 N/A 2,800 0.01
5 Barcelona  Spain n/a 5,355,000 5,258,319 4,300 0.12
6 Milan  Italy n/a 5,257,000 3,098,974 2,800 −0.16
7 Berlin  Germany n/a 4,069,000 3,563,194 2,900 0.01
8 Rome  Italy n/a 3,906,000 3,717,956 3,400 0.89
9 Naples  Italy n/a 3,706,000 2,201,789 3,600 0.01
10 Athens  Greece n/a 3,484,000 3,051,899 5,000 0.29
11 Lisbon  Portugal n/a 2,666,000 2,884,297 2,800 0.39
12 RotterdamThe Hague
 Netherlands n/a 2,660,000 N/A 2,700 0.39
13 Manchester  United Kingdom n/a 2,639,000 2,645,598 4,200 −0.03
14 Birmingham (West Midlands)  United Kingdom n/a 2,512,000 2,514,596 4,200 −0.03
15 Katowice (Katowice urban area)  Poland 2,573,159 2,190,000 n/a 3,300 0.11
16 Cologne-Bonn  Germany n/a 2,104,000 N/A 2,300 0.50
17 Brussels  Belgium n/a 2,089,000 2,044,993 2,600 0.02[4]
18 Hamburg  Germany n/a 2,087,000 1,830,673 2,700 0.43[4]
19 Munich  Germany n/a 1,981,000 1,437,900 4,200 0.72[4]
20 Frankfurt  Germany n/a 1,915,000 n/a 3,000 0.50
21 Leeds-Bradford  United Kingdom n/a 1,893,000 1,912,493 3,900 0.24[4]
22 Bucharest  Romania n/a 1,860,000 1,867,724 6,500 0.10[4]
23 Vienna  Austria n/a 1,763,000 1,752,845 3,900 1.04[4]
24 Warsaw  Poland n/a 1,720,000 1,722,310 3,200 0.67
25 Budapest  Hungary n/a 1,710,000 1,713,903 1,900 −0.19
26 Stockholm  Sweden n/a 1,630,000 1,485,680 4,300 0.58[4]
27 Amsterdam  Netherlands n/a 1,624,000 1,090,772 3,200 0.41[4]
28 Lyon  France n/a 1,583,000 1,608,712 1,300 0.50[4]
29 Valencia  Spain n/a 1,561,000 5,700 0.29[4]
30 Sevilla  Spain n/a 1,533,230 5,600
31 Turin  Italy n/a 1,521,000 1,764,868 4,100 −0.16[4]
32 Porto  Portugal n/a 1,474,000 1,299,437 1,900
33 Marseille  France n/a 1,397,000 1,605,046 3,100 0.46[4]
34 Stuttgart  Germany n/a 1,379,000 2,900
35 Sofia  Bulgaria 1,543,377 1,316,557 1,226,155 5,700 0.78[4]
36 Prague  Czech Republic n/a 1,310,000 1,313,557 4,600 −0.07[4]
37 Copenhagen  Denmark n/a 1,231,000 1,268,052 2,700 0.04[4]
38 Helsinki  Finland n/a 1,203,000 1,179,916 2,400 0.81[4]
39 Glasgow  United Kingdom n/a 1,182,000 1,222,955 3,300 0.07[4]
40 Dublin  Ireland n/a 1,158,000 1,169,371 2,500 1.14[4]
41 Lille  France,  Belgium n/a 1,016,000 1,027,178 2,200 0.50[4]
42 Antwerpen  Belgium n/a 990,000 1,500 0.05[4]
43 Nice  France n/a 962,000 1,300 0.52[4]
44 Łódź  Poland n/a 939,000 5,000 −0.67[4]
45 Toulouse  France n/a 880,000 1,100 0.72[4]
46 Liverpool  United Kingdom n/a 864,000 4,400 0.11[4]
47 South Hampshire  United Kingdom n/a 856,000
48 Bordeaux  France n/a 845,000 700 0.60[4]
49 Thessaloniki  Greece n/a 840,000 4,300 0.39[4]
50 Florence  Italy n/a 821,000 3,700
51 Zagreb  Croatia n/a 793,000 4,400
52 Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyneside)  United Kingdom n/a 780,000 4,200 0.16[4]
53 Gdańsk (Tricity)  Poland n/a 775,000 5,000
54 Kraków  Poland n/a 760,000 3,500
55 Bilbao  Spain n/a 750,000 5,800
56 Riga  Latvia n/a 750,000 2,900
57 Palermo  Italy n/a 731,000 6,000 0.12[4]
58 Nottingham  United Kingdom n/a 730,000 4,200
59 Catania  Italy n/a 720,000 2,900
60 Málaga  Spain n/a 700,000 3,600
61 Las Palmas  Spain n/a 700,000 6,800
62 Zaragoza  Spain n/a 700,000 5,700
63 Dresden  Germany n/a 700,000 2,200
64 Hannover  Germany n/a 700,000 2,500
65 Sheffield  United Kingdom n/a 685,000 4,000
66 Nürnberg  Germany n/a 660,000 3,000
67 Bremen  Germany n/a 650,000 2,400
68 Utrecht  Netherlands n/a 650,000 3,900
69 Genova  Italy n/a 625,000 2,400
70 Bristol  United Kingdom n/a 617,000 3,900
71 Wrocław  Poland n/a 600,000 4,800
72 Poznań  Poland n/a 600,000 2,700
73 Nantes  France n/a 585,000 1,100
74 Belfast  United Kingdom n/a 580,000 3,500
75 Leipzig  Germany n/a 575,000 2,000
76 Toulon  France n/a 559,000 700
77 Mannheim  Germany n/a 552,000 3,500
78 Liège  Belgium n/a 550,000 1,900
79 Vilnius  Lithuania n/a 550,000 649,000 2,500
80 Gothenburg  Sweden n/a 550,000 2,700
81 Saarbrücken  Germany n/a 515,000 2,200
82 Douai-Lens  France n/a 510,000 1,100
83 Bologna  Italy n/a 510,000 3,300
84 Aachen  Germany n/a 510,000 1,500
85 Leicester  United Kingdom n/a 509,000
86 Grenoble  France n/a 505,000 985
87 Köln  Germany n/a N/A 1,036,771 N/A N/A

Top 15 urban areas by population

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Eurostat: Statistics on European cities. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Demographia: World Urban Areas. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 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 6 September 2015. Note: List based on estimates for 2015, from 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 United Nations: World Urbanization Prospects

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