Largest European metropolitan areas

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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 many cases, the list of Largest urban areas of the European Union would give figures that better reflects 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 the most urban areas. As in the rest of the world, metropolitan areas in Europe are much debated, and widely different figures are given for the same place by different sources (including Wikipedia's own worldwide list of metropolitan areas by population, which is based on different underlying sources). These figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive facts. In most 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
1	Moscow		14,520,000 (10,425,000 [link])
2	London		12,500,000 (7,387,900)
3	Rhine-Ruhr		11,785,196
4	Paris		11,570,000 in 2005 (2,142,800)
5	Istanbul		11,332,000 (8,803,468)
6	Milan		7,500,000 (1,308,500)
7	Randstad		7,500,000
8	Madrid		5,843,041 (3,155,359)
9	St. Petersburg		5,550,000 (4,669,400)
10	Greater Frankfurt		5,200,000 (641,076)
11	Barcelona		4,686,701 (1,593,075)
12	Berlin		4,200,000 (3,388,434)
13	Naples		4,200,000 (1,004,500)
14	Hamburg Metropolitan Region		4,000,000 (1,726,363)
15	Rome		3,800,000 (2,546,804)
16	Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area		3,500,000 (2 143 000)
17	Athens		3,500,000 (745,514)
18	Kiev		3,200,000 (2,611,000)
19	Saxon triangle		3,200,000 (990,000 Dresden and Leipzig)
20	Manchester		3,180,200 (402,889)
21	Venetian triangle		3,100,000 (Venezia, Mestre, Padova, Vicenza, Treviso
22	Birmingham		3,043,985 (965,928)
23	Lisbon		2,900,000 (564,657)
24	Stuttgart Region		2,700,000 (587,152)
25	Budapest		2,550,000 (1,775,203)
26	Munich		2,500,000 (1,277,537)
27	Rhine Neckar Area		2,500,000
28	Warsaw		2,400,000 (1,690,821)
29	Bucharest		2,300,000 (2,082,000)
30	Brabantse Stedenrij		2,300,000
31	Leeds		2,100,000 (424,194)
32	Belgrade		2,000,000 (1,576,124) 2002 sources
33	Brussels		1,975,000 (1,006,749)
34	Donetsk		1,925,000 (1,016,000)
35	Nizhniy Novgorod		1,925,000 (1,311,200)
37	Kharkiv		1,850,000 (1,470,000)
38	Minsk		1,850,000 (1,719,000)
39	Vienna		1,850,000 (1,550,123)
40	Lille		1,813,000 in 2004 (212,597 in 1999)
41	Sheffield		1,811,700 (611,200)
43	Turin		1,800,000 (865,263)
44	Stockholm		1,729,274 (774,411) March 31, 2006 [Statistics Sweden – Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31/3/2006 och befolkningsförändringar 1:a kvartalet 2006]; Metropolitan Stockholm defined as Stockholm County except Norrtälje, Nykvarn, Nynäshamn, and Södertälje municipalities.
45	Lyon		1,705,000 in 2004 (445,452 in 1999)
46	Valencia		1,623,724 (796,549)
47	Liverpool		1,589,319 (481,786),
48	Glasgow		1,575,000 (629,501)
49	Porto		1,551,950 in 2001 (263,131)
50	Marseille		1,551,000 in 2004 (798,430 in 1999)
51	Greater Dublin		1,535,446 (495,101)
52	Yekaterinburg		1,500,000 (1,293,000)
53	Luxembourg		1,413,447 (82,000)
54	Dnipropetrovsk		1,425,000 (1,065,000)
55	Samara		1,375,000 (1,158,100)
56	Volgograd		1,375,000 (1,012,800)
57	Seville		1,317,098 (704,154)
58	Florence		1,300,000 (356,118)
59	Prague		1,300,000 (1,161,938)
60	Kassel		1,265,000 (194,419)
70	Helsinki		1,225,000 (559,716)
71	Sofia		1,225,000 (1,096,389)
72	Nottingham		1,220,000
73	Zagreb		1,200,000 (973,667 in 2005)
74	Bari		1,200,000 (328.458)
75	Kraków		1,200,000 (757,957)
76	Kazan		1,175,000
77	Rostov		1,175,000
78	Hanover		1,126,000 (516,415)
79	Saratov		1,115,000 (873,500)
80	Odessa		1,125,000
81	Ufa		1,125,000
82	Copenhagen		1,086,762[Statistics Denmark]; Greater Copenhagen (501,158)
83	Łódź		1,100,000 (793,217)
84	Perm		1,100,000
85	Zurich		1,091,732 (364,558 in 2002)
86	Oslo		1,090,012 (529,846 in 2005)
87	Tyne and Wear		1,085,700 (Sunderland: 280,807 in 2004; Newcastle: 189,150)
88	Toulouse		1,075,000 in 2004 (426,700 in 2004)
89	Málaga		1,074,074 (558,287)
90	Nürnberg		1,050,000 (491,307)

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