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Largest European cities

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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.

City namePopulation
Moscow, Russia 13,200,000 (10,101,500)
London, UK 11,850,000 (6,638,109)
Istanbul, Turkey 10,650,000 (8,803,468)
Paris, France 9,800,000 (2,125,246)
Ruhr area, Germany 6,100,000 (Essen, Bochum, Dortmund, Wuppertal)
St. Petersburg, Russia 5,550,000 (4,669,400)
Madrid, Spain 5,150,000 (2,881,506)
Berlin, Germany 4,200,000 (3,388,434)
Barcelona, Spain 3,800,000 (1,503,884)
Milan, Italy 3,800,000 (1,256,211)
Ankara, Turkey 3,600,000
Athens, Greece 3,500,000 (745,514)
Izmir, Turkey 3,370,000
Rome, Italy 3,300,000 (2,546,804)
Kiev, Ukraine 3,200,000 (2,611,000)
Naples, Italy 3,000,000 (1,004,500)
Upper Silesia, Poland 2,930,800 (340,539, Katowice)
Lisbon, Portugal 2,900,000 (564,657)
Stuttgart, Germany 2,700,000 (587,152)
Birmingham, UK 2,600,000 (965,928)
Hamburg, Germany 2,600,000 (1,726,363)
Budapest, Hungary 2,550,000 (1,775,203)
Brussels, Belgium 2,500,000 (136,730)
Manchester, UK 2,500,000 (402,889)
Warsaw, Poland 2,400,000 (1,610,471)
Bucharest, Romania 2,300,000 (1,921,751)
Amsterdam, Netherlands 2,100,000 (735,080)
Leeds, UK 2,100,000 (424,194)
Frankfurt, Germany 1,975,000 (641,076)
Donetsk, Ukraine 1,925,000 (1,016,000)
Munich, Germany 1,925,000 (1,227,958)
Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia 1,925,000 (1,311,200)
Cologne, Germany 1,875,000 (967,940)
Kharkov, Ukraine 1,850,000 (1,470,000)
Minsk, Belarus 1,850,000 (1,719,000)
Vienna, Austria 1,850,000 (1,550,123)
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 1,800,000 (1,280,639)
Stockholm, Sweden 1,700,000 (758,148)
Mannheim, Germany 1,650,000 (308,385)
Glasgow, UK 1,575,000 (629,501)
Turin, Italy 1,500,000 (865,263)
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine 1,425,000 (1,065,000)
Copenhagen, Denmark 1,425,000 (501,285)
Marseilles, France 1,425,000 (798,430)
Valencia, Spain 1,425,000 (738,441)
Lyons, France 1,400,000 (445,452)
Liverpool, UK 1,375,000 (481,786)
Samara, Russia 1,375,000 (1,158,100)
Volgograd, Russia 1,375,000 (1,012,800)
Düsseldorf, Germany 1,350,000 (570,765)
Lille, France/Belgium 1,350,000 (184,493) (includes Mouscron and Kortrijk, Belgium)
Oporto, Portugal 1,325,000 (263,131)
Prague, Czech Republic 1,300,000 (1,161,938)
Sheffield, UK 1,275,000 (431,607)
Antwerp, Belgium 1,225,000 (448,709)
Kassel, Germany 1,265,000 (194,419)
Helsinki, Finland 1,225,000 (559,716)
Seville, Spain 1,225,000 (684,663)
Sofia, Bulgaria 1,225,000 (1,096,389)
Kazan, Russia 1,175,000
Rostov, Russia 1,175,000
Rotterdam, Netherlands 1,175,000 (599,472)
Hanover, Germany 1,126,000 (516,415)
Saratov, Russia 1,115,000 (873,500)
Odessa, Ukraine 1,125,000
Ufa, Russia 1,125,000
Lodz, Poland 1,100,000 (793,217)
Perm, Russia 1,100,000
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 1,075,000 (189,150)
Nuremberg, Germany 1,050,000 (491,307)
Tricity, Poland 1,035,000 (462,700)
Dublin, Ireland 1,025,000 (495,101)

See also: List of metropolitan areas by population for the world.