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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

  • This is a list of urban areas, not a list of metropolitan areas. Urban areas are contiguous built-up areas where houses are typically not more than 200 m apart (discounting rivers, parks, roads, industrial fields, etc.). A metropolitan area is an urban area plus the satellite cities around the urban area and the agricultural land in between. For instance London is sometimes listed with 14 million inhabitants, Stuttgart is frequently listed with 2.2 million inhabitants, Munich with 2 million or more, etc., indicating the wider metropolitan area of those places. Metropolitan areas, which imply much more complicated definitions (such as the proportion of people in satellite cities working in the core of the metropolitan area), can be accurately computed only by statistical offices, after they have chosen a definition for metropolitan areas, whereas urban areas can be computed by any institution or person with the study of maps, satellite imagery and other geographical data in order to determine the outer limits of a continuous built-up area with one or more neighbouring cities. Furthermore, the list does not make a difference between cities that have multiple satellites and cities that do not. Therefore, two cities with the same demographics for their urban area will have an equal ranking on this list, even if one of the two cities may be much larger as it is the core of a number of satellites.
  • This is a list of urban areas, not a list of administrative cities. For example, the list of conurbations contains the urban area of Lille-Kortrijk. Lille and Kortrijk remain two very distinct cities, each belonging to a different country, culture and language area. For a list of the largest cities of the European Union by population, please see Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits.
  • The study of urban areas is useful to analyse how cities develop, which in turn can be used to define transportation, planning and environmental policies, to adjust administrative boundaries etc. At the same time its limitations have to be acknowledged. It is a purely geographic study and disregards all other factors that contribute to the analysis of the functional city. For instance, several cities in the European Union such as Brussels and London have reserved green belts in the outskirts which impacts the size of urban areas but not the "perceived city" as these green belts have now become integrated in what people consider to be the functional city.

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 File:DK DO Skyline 300ppi CC BY NC SA-20140223-3068.jpg  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 Rotterdam–The 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

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Location of the top 15 urban areas by population in the European Union.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Eurostat: Statistics on European cities. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Demographia: World Urban Areas. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  3. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab United Nations: World Urbanization Prospects

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