Europe - Top 100+ Urban Areas by Population
Population data courtesy of the United Nations Statistics Division and is by urban area as defined by each member country in Europe (for specific city data, see our ranking by city). Data is as of 2010 estimates.
| Rank
| Urban Area | Country | Population
| |
| 1. |
Moscow |
Russia |
13,250,000 |
| 2. |
Paris |
France |
10,475,000 |
| 3. |
London |
United Kingdom |
8,278,000 |
| 4. |
Essen-Düsseldorf |
Germany |
7,250,000 |
| 5. |
Madrid |
Spain |
4,900,000 |
| 6. |
Saint Petersburg |
Russia |
4,560,000 |
| 7. |
Milan |
Italy |
4,200,000 |
| 8. |
Barcelona |
Spain |
3,900,000 |
| 9. |
Berlin |
Germany |
3,450,000 |
| 10. |
Athens |
Greece |
3,260,000 |
| 11. |
Napoli |
Italy |
3,000,000 |
| 12. |
Lisbon |
Portugal |
2,825,000 |
| 13. |
Kiev |
Ukraine |
2,810,000 |
| 14. |
Rome |
Italy |
2,750,000 |
| 15. |
Katowice-Gliwice-Tychy |
Poland |
2,450,000 |
| 16. |
Birmingham |
United Kingdom |
2,284,000 |
| 17. |
Frankfurt |
Germany |
2,260,000 |
| 18. |
Manchester |
United Kingdom |
2,245,000 |
| 19. |
Rotterdam-Hague |
Netherlands |
2,075,000 |
| 20. |
Cologne-Bonn |
Germany |
1,960,000 |
| 21. |
Bucharest |
Romania |
1,930,000 |
| 22. |
Brussels |
Belgium |
1,900,000 |
| 23. |
Minsk |
Belarus |
1,850,000 |
| 24. |
Hamburg |
Germany |
1,790,000 |
| 25. |
Vienna |
Austria |
1,710,000 |
| 26. |
Warsaw |
Poland |
1,710,000 |
| 27. |
Budapest |
Hungary |
1,700,000 |
| 28. |
Leeds-Bradford |
United Kingdom |
1,499,000 |
| 29. |
Lyon |
France |
1,470,000 |
| 30. |
Marseille-Aix-en-Provence |
France |
1,470,000 |
| 31. |
Kharkiv |
Ukraine |
1,450,000 |
| 32. |
Novosibirsk |
Russia |
1,400,000 |
| 33. |
Porto |
Portugal |
1,350,000 |
| 34. |
München |
Germany |
1,350,000 |
| 35. |
Torino |
Italy |
1,350,000 |
| 36. |
Yekaterinburg |
Russia |
1,340,000 |
| 37. |
Nizhniy Novgorod |
Russia |
1,270,000 |
| 38. |
Stockholm |
Sweden |
1,250,000 |
| 39. |
Stuttgart |
Germany |
1,250,000 |
| 40. |
Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
1,200,000 |
| 41. |
Copenhagen |
Denmark |
1,180,000 |
| 42. |
Sofia |
Bulgaria |
1,175,000 |
| 43. |
Prague |
Czech Republic |
1,150,000 |
| 44. |
Kazan |
Russia |
1,140,000 |
| 45. |
Helsinki |
Finland |
1,120,000 |
| 46. |
Samara |
Russia |
1,120,000 |
| 47. |
Omsk |
Russia |
1,110,000 |
| 48. |
Dublin |
Ireland |
1,100,000 |
| 49. |
Dnipropetrovsk |
Ukraine |
1,100,000 |
| 50. |
Belgrade |
Serbia |
1,100,000 |
| 51. |
Chelyabinsk |
Russia |
1,090,000 |
| 52. |
Lille |
France |
1,050,000 |
| 53. |
Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
1,050,000 |
| 54. |
Rostov |
Russia |
1,040,000 |
| 55. |
Nuremberg |
Germany |
1,020,000 |
| 56. |
Ufa |
Russia |
1,020,000 |
| 57. |
Odessa |
Ukraine |
1,010,000 |
| 58. |
Nice |
France |
975,000 |
| 59. |
Perm |
Russia |
975,000 |
| 60. |
Volgograd |
Russia |
970,000 |
| 61. |
Donetsk |
Ukraine |
970,000 |
| 62. |
Antwerpen |
Belgium |
960,000 |
| 63. |
Krasnoyarsk |
Russia |
960,000 |
| 64. |
Lodz |
Poland |
950,000 |
| 65. |
Oslo |
Norway |
910,000 |
| 66. |
Toulouse |
France |
900,000 |
| 67. |
Newcastle upon Tyne |
United Kingdom |
880,000 |
| 68. |
Palermo |
Italy |
875,000 |
| 69. |
Bordeaux |
France |
840,000 |
| 70. |
Thessaloniki |
Greece |
840,000 |
| 71. |
Voronezh |
Russia |
840,000 |
| 72. |
Liverpool |
United Kingdom |
816,000 |
| 73. |
Valencia |
Spain |
810,000 |
| 74. |
Saratov |
Russia |
800,000 |
| 75. |
Gda´nsk |
Poland |
775,000 |
| 76. |
Zaporizhzhya |
Ukraine |
775,000 |
| 77. |
Kraków |
Poland |
760,000 |
| 78. |
Florence |
Italy |
750,000 |
| 79. |
Riga |
Latvia |
750,000 |
| 80. |
Bilbao |
Spain |
750,000 |
| 81. |
Seville |
Spain |
750,000 |
| 82. |
L'viv |
Ukraine |
750,000 |
| 83. |
Zürich |
Switzerland |
735,000 |
| 84. |
Hannover |
Germany |
725,000 |
| 85. |
Krasnodar |
Russia |
725,000 |
| 86. |
Zagreb |
Croatia |
700,000 |
| 87. |
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
Spain |
700,000 |
| 88. |
Nottingham |
United Kingdom |
666,000 |
| 89. |
Bremen |
Germany |
650,000 |
| 90. |
Tol'yatti |
Russia |
650,000 |
| 91. |
Kryvyy Rih |
Ukraine |
650,000 |
| 92. |
Sheffield |
United Kingdom |
641,000 |
| 93. |
Dresden |
Germany |
640,000 |
| 94. |
Genoa |
Italy |
600,000 |
| 95. |
Pozna´n |
Poland |
600,000 |
| 96. |
Wroclaw |
Poland |
600,000 |
| 97. |
Barnaul |
Russia |
600,000 |
| 98. |
Izhevsk |
Russia |
600,000 |
| 99. |
Yaroslavl' |
Russia |
600,000 |
| 100. |
Ul'yanovsk |
Russia |
600,000 |
