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 AreaCountryPopulation
106. Tirana Albania 560,000
25. Vienna Austria 1,710,000
23. Minsk Belarus 1,850,000
122. Homyel Belarus 500,000
22. Brussels Belgium 1,900,000
62. Antwerpen Belgium 960,000
42. Sofia Bulgaria 1,175,000
86. Zagreb Croatia 700,000
43. Prague Czech Republic 1,150,000
41. Copenhagen Denmark 1,180,000
45. Helsinki Finland 1,120,000
2. Paris France 10,475,000
29. Lyon France 1,470,000
30. Marseille-Aix-en-Provence France 1,470,000
52. Lille France 1,050,000
58. Nice France 975,000
66. Toulouse France 900,000
69. Bordeaux France 840,000
105. Nantes France 568,000
115. Toulon France 543,000
118. Douai France 519,000
4. Essen-Düsseldorf Germany 7,250,000
9. Berlin Germany 3,450,000
17. Frankfurt Germany 2,260,000
20. Cologne-Bonn Germany 1,960,000
24. Hamburg Germany 1,790,000
34. München Germany 1,350,000
39. Stuttgart Germany 1,250,000
55. Nuremberg Germany 1,020,000
84. Hannover Germany 725,000
89. Bremen Germany 650,000
93. Dresden Germany 640,000
102. Aachen Germany 585,000
103. Mannheim Germany 575,000
104. Leipzig Germany 570,000
119. Saarbrücken Germany 515,000
10. Athens Greece 3,260,000
70. Thessaloniki Greece 840,000
27. Budapest Hungary 1,700,000
48. Dublin Ireland 1,100,000
7. Milan Italy 4,200,000
14. Rome Italy 2,750,000
68. Palermo Italy 875,000
78. Florence Italy 750,000
94. Genoa Italy 600,000
123. Bologna Italy 500,000
11. Napoli Italy 3,000,000
35. Torino Italy 1,350,000
79. Riga Latvia 750,000
108. Vilnius Lithuania 550,000
109. Chisinau Moldova 550,000
19. Rotterdam-Hague Netherlands 2,075,000
53. Amsterdam Netherlands 1,050,000
65. Oslo Norway 910,000
15. Katowice-Gliwice-Tychy Poland 2,450,000
26. Warsaw Poland 1,710,000
64. Lodz Poland 950,000
75. Gda´nsk Poland 775,000
77. Kraków Poland 760,000
95. Pozna´n Poland 600,000
96. Wroclaw Poland 600,000
12. Lisbon Portugal 2,825,000
33. Porto Portugal 1,350,000
21. Bucharest Romania 1,930,000
1. Moscow Russia 13,250,000
6. Saint Petersburg Russia 4,560,000
32. Novosibirsk Russia 1,400,000
36. Yekaterinburg Russia 1,340,000
37. Nizhniy Novgorod Russia 1,270,000
44. Kazan Russia 1,140,000
46. Samara Russia 1,120,000
47. Omsk Russia 1,110,000
51. Chelyabinsk Russia 1,090,000
54. Rostov Russia 1,040,000
56. Ufa Russia 1,020,000
59. Perm Russia 975,000
60. Volgograd Russia 970,000
63. Krasnoyarsk Russia 960,000
71. Voronezh Russia 840,000
74. Saratov Russia 800,000
85. Krasnodar Russia 725,000
97. Barnaul Russia 600,000
111. Irkutsk Russia 550,000
113. Tomsk Russia 550,000
114. Vladivostok Russia 550,000
116. Orenburg Russia 525,000
125. Bryansk Russia 500,000
126. Kemerovo Russia 500,000
130. Penza Russia 500,000
132. Tula Russia 500,000
90. Tol'yatti Russia 650,000
98. Izhevsk Russia 600,000
99. Yaroslavl' Russia 600,000
100. Ul'yanovsk Russia 600,000
110. Khabarovsk Russia 550,000
112. Makhachkala Russia 550,000
124. Astrakhan' Russia 500,000
127. Lipetsk Russia 500,000
128. Naberezhnyye Chelny Russia 500,000
129. Novokuznetsk Russia 500,000