List of metropolitan areas in Europe

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Moscow, the capital of Russia, has the most populous metropolitan area in Europe.
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Europe and some parts of Africa and Asia by night. Lights reveal the urbanized areas of Europe. It also shows the Blue Banana megalopolis from north-west England to northern Italy, and the Golden Banana urbanized area between Genoa and Valencia.
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Blue, Golden, Green Bananas

This list ranks metropolitan areas in Europe by their population according to three different sources; it includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.

Sources

List includes metropolitan areas according only to the studies of ESPON, Eurostat, and OECD. For this reason some metropolitan areas, like the Italian Genoa Metropolitan Area (with a population of 1,510,781 as of 2010[1]) or the Ukrainian Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area (with a population of 1,170,953 as of 2019[2]), are not included in this list, with data by other statistic survey institutes.

Population figures correspond to the populations of Functional urban areas (FUA). The concept of a functional urban area defines a metropolitan area as a core urban area defined morphologically on the basis of population density, plus the surrounding labour pool defined on the basis of commuting. Figures in the first two population columns use a harmonised definition of a Functional urban area developed jointly in 2011, with delimitation basing on the DEGURBA method.[3][4]

Further information on how the areas are defined can be found in the source documents. These figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive fact.

Metropolitan areas

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  Areas within the European Union

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Polycentric metropolitan areas in the European Union

Rank Area State Population[7]
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3 Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area Script error: No such module "flag"./ Script error: No such module "flag". 5,294,000
4 Flemish Diamond Script error: No such module "flag". 5,103,000
5 Vienna-Bratislava metropolitan region Script error: No such module "flag"./ Script error: No such module "flag". 4,600,000

See also

Regional and country-specific lists

Notes

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References

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External links

  • Geopolis: research group, university of Paris-Diderot, France - Population of urban areas of 10,000 or more

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