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List of metropolitan areas in Europe

List of metropolitan areas in Europe

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This list ranks metropolitan areas in Europe by their population according to three different sources; it includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.

This is a list of metropolitan areas. For a list of urban areas, see List of urban areas in Europe. For a list of cities proper, see List of European cities by population within city limits. For a list of European cities by country, see List of cities in Europe.
Moscow, the capital and largest city of Russia; is the most populous metropolitan area in Europe.
Europe and some parts of Africa and Asia by night. Lights reveal the urbanized areas of Europe. It also shows Blue Banana megalopolis from north-west England to northern Italy, and Golden Banana urbanized area between Genoa and Valencia.

Sources

List includes metropolitan areas according only studies of ESPON, Eurostat, and OECD. For this reason some metropolitan areas, like the Italian Genoa Metropolitan Area (with a population over 1,510,000 as of 2012 according to "CityRailway" Official Report), are not included in this list, with data by other statistic survey institutes.

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's Urban Audit and correspond to Larger Urban Zones (LUZ). Figures in the fourth column come from the OECD Territorial Reviews and correspond to "metropolitan regions". 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

  Areas within the European Union
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Polycentric metropolitan areas in the European Union

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See also

Regional and country-specific lists

Notes

  1. Part of the Randstad polycentric urban region consisting of the metropolitan areas of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht (982,000). The total population of the region is 7,100,000.
  2. The Flemish Diamond metropolitan region, which consists of the metropolitan areas of Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, and Leuven, has a total population of 5,103,000.
  3. Total population is 4,251,000 if the metropolitan area of Mataro (169,000) is included.
  4. Part of the wider Öresund region, which includes the Swedish metropolitan area of Malmö (961,000). The total regional population is 2,842,000.
  5. Probable overestimate
  6. Doesn't consider the impact of the Russian invasion
  7. Part of the Rhein-Main metropolitan region with a total population of 4,149,000, which additionally includes the metropolitan areas of Darmstadt (501,000), Wiesbaden (453,000), and Mainz (431,000).
  8. Including Rotterdam
  9. 65% of the population lives on the European part
  10. Part of the polycentric Upper Silesian urban region with a total population of 5,294,000. The region additionally includes the metropolitan areas of Ostrava (1,046,000), Bielsko-Biala (584,000) and Rybnik (526,000).
  11. Doesn't consider the impact of the Russian invasion
  12. Doesn't consider the impact of the Russian invasion
  13. Part of the wider Lille-Bassin Minier region with a total population of 3,115,000.
  14. Does not include Aix-en-Provence, which OECD, unlike INSEE, considers as a separate metropolitan area, with a population of 352,097 in 2020.
  15. Part of a wider polycentric urban region with a population of 8,311,000.
  16. When combined with the Augsburg metropolitan area (606,000), the region has a total population of 3,271,000.
  17. Does not include Derby, which OECD considers as a separate metropolitan area, with a population of 495,159 in 2020.
  18. just Nottingham (Derby 257,101)
  19. Doesn't consider the impact of the Russian invasion
  20. Part of a wider polycentric urban region with a population of 1,778,000.
  21. Does not include Portsmouth, which OECD considers as a separate metropolitan area, with a population of 542,048 in 2020.
  22. Polycentric metropolitan area
  23. Part of the polycentric urban region of Rhein-Ruhr, which has a total population of 12,190,000.
  24. Including The Hague
  25. Total population is 1,262,000 if the metropolitan area of Utrera (82,000) is included.
  26. Total population is 1,716,000 if the metropolitan of Pinerolo is included.
  27. Total population is 1,499,000 if the metropolitan area of Sagunto is included.

References

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    "OECD Data Explorer - Population by age and sex - Cities and FUAs". OECD. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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    "Major Agglomerations of The World". citypopulation.de. 1 January 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
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    "Database". ec.europa.eu. Eurostat. Retrieved 20 Jun 2020. click General and regional statistics / Regional statistics by typology / Metropolitan regions / Demography statistics by metropolitan regions / Population on 1 January by broad age group, sex and metropolitan regions (met_pjanaggr3)
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    "Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3)]" (PDF). European Spatial Planning Observation Network. March 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015., Final Report, Chapter 3
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    OECD: Territorial Review Copenhagen, 2009, p. 34, ISBN 9789264060029
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    "Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2019" (PDF).(in Ukrainian)
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    "Principal Agglomerations of the World". Citypopulation. January 2017.
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    European Spatial Planning Observation Network, Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3) Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, Final Report, Chapter 3, (ESPON, 2007) page 241-243
  • Geopolis: research group, university of Paris-Diderot, France - Population of urban areas of 10,000 or more
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