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These are the largest metropolitan areas and cities of Europe. Where the population figure is for a metropolitan area, the population of the city proper is given in the brackets.

In some cases, the list of Largest urban areas of the European Union would give figures that better reflect common understanding of the different cities' sizes as the metropolitan areas include also non-urban and suburban areas and administrative borders for cities often cut across most urban areas. The list of Larger Urban Zones (LUZ) in the European Union can also be consulted for an attempt by Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, to provide harmonized data for EU metropolitan areas. The list below includes cities which are not part of the European Union and therefore do not benefit from the harmonized definition used by Eurostat and the different National Statistics Offices of the European Union. Furthermore this list includes large urban areas that are almost metropolitan areas but are not based on one city solely. In addition, the numbers below have often been grossed up using historical growth rates, which means they are only approximations. As in the rest of the world, metropolitan areas in Europe are much debated, and different sources will provide different statistics (including Wikipedia's own worldwide list of metropolitan areas by population). Yet some convergence of opinion can be observed since Eurostat reached an agreement about definitions with the National Statistics Offices of the different countries in the European Union in 2003. Many of the figures below are based on the harmonized Eurostat figures but they have been grossed up and European cities that are not part of the European Union have non-harmionized figures. Therefore these figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive facts. In some cases they are towards the top of the range of figures quoted for each metropolitan area. Some of these areas are very much regions rather than single settlements, and are considered to be "cities" by few people, if any at all.

Rank	Metropolitan area name	Country	Population of metropolitan area	Population of city proper
1	Moscow	Russia	14,612,602 in 2006	10,425,000 [1]
2	London	United Kingdom	12,629,020 in 2006(E)	7,517,700[2][3]
3	Rhine-Ruhr	Germany	11,805,887 in 2006[4][5]
4	Paris	France	11,633,822 in 2006(E)	2,142,800[6]
5	Istanbul	Turkey	10,034,830 in 2006 [7]
6	Randstad	Netherlands	6,620,133 in 2006[8]
7	Madrid	Spain	6,097,994 in 2006	3,155,359[9][10]
8	Frankfurt Rhine Main Area	Germany	5,294,485 in 2003	641,076[11]
9	Berlin	Germany	4,935,524 in 2003	3,396,383[11]
10	Barcelona [1]	Spain	4,853,308 in 2006[12]	1,593,075[13]
11	St. Petersburg	Russia	4,830,552 in 2006[14]
12	Milan	Italy	4,320,422 in 2006	[15][16]
13	Hamburg Metropolitan Region	Germany	4,300,000 in 2006
14	Athens	Greece	3,799,134 in 2006	720,979[17][18]
15	Rome	Italy	3,776,313 in 2006[19]	2,546,804[11]
16	Saxon Triangle	Germany	3,500,000 in 2006	990,000 Dresden and Leipzig[11]
17	Katowice	Poland	3,450,339 in 2006[20]
18	Birmingham / West Midlands	United Kingdom	3,250,155[21] in 2006	989,141[22]
19	Naples	Italy	3,059,196 in 2003	1,004,500[11]
20	Warsaw	Poland	3,050,000 in 2006[23]	1,700,654
21	Kiev	Ukraine	3,000,388[24]	2,469,968[25]
22	Lisbon	Portugal	2,763,470 in 2003	564,657[11]
23	Stuttgart Region	Germany	2,700,000	587,152
24	Greater Manchester	United Kingdom	2,512,300 in 2003	402,889[11]
25	Rhine Neckar Area	Germany	2,500,000
26	Budapest	Hungary	2,453,315	1,695,000[16]
27	Munich	Germany	2,446,014 in 2003	1,277,537[11]
28	Alma (Aachen, Liège, Maastricht)	Netherlands  Belgium  Germany	2,300,000
29	Bucharest	Romania	2,144,442	1,929,615[16]
30	Prague	Czech Republic	1,941,803	1,186,618[26]
31	Belgrade	Serbia	1,926,398	1,526,251 in 2002[27]
32	Nizhniy Novgorod	Russia	1,925,000	1,311,200
33	Minsk	Belarus	1,850,000	1,719,000
34	Wien	Austria	1,850,000	1,550,123
35	Stockholm	Sweden	1,823,210 in 2003	774,411[11]
36	Sheffield / South Yorkshire	United Kingdom	1,811,700	611,200
37	Copenhagen	Denmark	1,806,667 in 2003	501,158[11]
38	Lyon	France	1,773,319 in 2006[28]	445,452 in 1999[29]
39	Brussels	Belgium	1,750,328	1,006,749[16]
40	Greater Glasgow	United Kingdom	1,749,154 in 2003	629,501[11]
41	Turin	Italy	1,699,308 [30]	865,263
42	Dublin	Ireland	1,661,185 in 2006	505,739 on 23 April 2006[31]
43	Donetsk	Ukraine	1,640,854[32]	973,923[33]
44	Valencia	Spain	1,623,724	796,549
45	Kharkiv	Ukraine	1,606,448[34]	1,412,086[35]
46	Liverpool / Merseyside	United Kingdom	1,589,319	481,786
47	Leeds / West Yorkshire	United Kingdom	1,580,032[36] in 2006	460,459[37]
48	Marseille	France	1,551,000 in 2004	798,430 in 1999
49	Yekaterinburg	Russia	1,500,000	1,293,000
50	Bielefeld	Germany	1,448,403	337,875[38][39]
51	Dnipropetrovsk	Ukraine	1,414,772[40]	1,017,681[41]
52	Kraków	Poland	1,400,000	758 000
53	Samara	Russia	1,375,000	1,158,100
54	Volgograd	Russia	1,375,000	1,012,800
55	Seville	Spain	1,317,098	704,154
56	Łódź	Poland	1,310,500	767 050
57	Kassel	Germany	1,265,000	194,419
58	Trójmiasto (Tricity), Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia	Poland	1,250,700	459 072
59	Helsinki	Finland	1,225,000	559,716
60	Sofia	Bulgaria	1,225,000	1,096,389
61	Greater Nottingham	United Kingdom	1,220,000
62	Zagreb	Croatia	1,200,000	973,667 in 2005
63	Nürnberg	Germany	1,182,563	493,835[42][43]
64	Kazan	Russia		1,175,000
65	Rostov-on-Don	Russia		1,175,000
66	Ostrava	Czech Republic	1,164,328	309,536 in 2006[16]
67	Lille-Kortrijk	France/  Belgium	1,143,125 in 2003	212,597 in 1999[11]
68	Hannover	Germany	1,126,000	516,415
69	Saratov	Russia	1,115,000	873,500
70	Odessa	Ukraine	1,130,921[44]	988,943[45]
71	Ufa	Russia		1,125,000
72	Perm	Russia		1,100,000
73	Zürich	Switzerland	1,091,732	364,558 in 2002
74	Oslo	Norway	1,090,012	529,846 in 2000
75	Porto	Portugal	1,089,118 in 2003	263,131[16]
76	Tyne and Wear	United Kingdom	1,085,700	Sunderland: 280,807 in 2004; Newcastle: 189,150
77	Toulouse	France	1,075,000 in 2004	426,700 in 2004
78	Málaga	Spain	1,074,074	558,287
79	Poznań	Poland	1,050,100	575 072
80	Wrocław	Poland	1,010,600	638 000
81	Palermo	Italy	1,004,613	662,881[46][47]

NB To access the relevant Eurostat reports, once the reference has been followed, click at 'Indicators for larger urban zones'. In the new window that opens, click the 'TIME' button and set the time period (1999_2003). Then click the 'CITIES' button and choose the cities for which you want to access the data. Then click the 'NEXT' button, click 'OK' at the Javascript alert box, and then click 'DOWNLOAD'.

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• Largest Cities of the European Union by population for only the cities proper, at the center of the metropolitan areas
• Largest Cities (25,000+) of Europe by number of headquarters
• List of metropolitan areas by population for the world
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