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Biggest Cities in Europe

Try to name the most populous urban areas in Europe.
Urban population according to citypopulation.de, 2025
Cities whose urban area spans multiple continents in yellow
Loosely-defined areas have been filled in by default
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City
18.8 m
Moscow
16.0 m
Istanbul
15.1 m
London
11.5 m
Paris
10.9 m
Rhine-Ruhr
6.70 m
Madrid
6.35 m
Saint Petersburg
6.15 m
Milan
6.10 m
Manchester / Liverpool
4.88 m
Barcelona
4.70 m
Berlin
4.05 m
Naples
3.98 m
Birmingham
3.58 m
Athens
3.48 m
Kyiv
3.45 m
Rotterdam / The Hague
3.43 m
Rome
3.23 m
Frankfurt
2.90 m
Hamburg
2.80 m
Brussels
2.58 m
Amsterdam
2.53 m
Budapest
2.50 m
Lisbon
2.48 m
Warsaw
2.38 m
Vienna
2.33 m
Stockholm
2.30 m
Munich
2.30 m
Stuttgart
2.23 m
Bucharest
2.18 m
Leeds
2.18 m
Upper Silesia
2.10 m
Minsk
2.05 m
Lyon
1.94 m
Valencia
1.81 m
Yekaterinburg
1.80 m
Copenhagen
1.71 m
Glasgow
1.71 m
Marseille
1.62 m
Nizhny Novgorod
1.59 m
Turin
1.58 m
Kharkiv
1.56 m
Helsinki
1.56 m
Kazan
1.55 m
Dublin
1.55 m
Mannheim
1.55 m
Porto
1.52 m
Zurich
1.47 m
Newcastle
1.47 m
Prague
1.47 m
Sheffield
1.43 m
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100 Recent Comments
Billy1970
+2
Level 59
Mar 2, 2021
Zurich has 0.42 millions not 1.42 m!
bigbywolf
+6
Level 56
May 4, 2021
Read the description. source gives this for Zurich:

City proper=0.42m;

Agglomeration core=1.12m;

Agglomeration=1.41m

I live nearby. IMO the colored "Agglomeration" region is not appropriate to be used for urban area. My estimate for the urban area of Zurich would be 1 million. Then again, you could argue that most of Switzerland is one big urban area.

buck1017
+5
Level 78
Mar 17, 2021
I can never remember Nizhny Novgorod. It sounds like a Harry Potter character from Durmstrang.
Ahimtar
+1
Level 38
Dec 2, 2025
Yeah. It sucks that these quizzes never allow common misspellings, e.g. Nizhnij
NewYorker125
+1
Level 25
Mar 22, 2021
Dangit! I missed Kharkiv even though I study Ukraine in school
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Apr 7, 2025
I got it while trying Krakow.. which I then tried as Krakov. (Since where some languages use v others use w and vice versa)
JAromt06
+1
Level 62
Mar 24, 2021
Im 14 and only forgot mannheim
katieeeeeeeeeeee
+14
Level 64
Aug 27, 2024
Congrats, what should we do about that
Smokebasics
+2
Level 76
Apr 23, 2025
do you want a reward?
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Mar 30, 2021
I got all EXCPT Donetsk!!
richiesyxx
+1
Level 74
May 9, 2021
Maybe someone has already asked this but, why is Upper Silesia on here? It just isn’t on the list provided in your source. Or is that your own calculation? (Just interested, not trying to be a whingeing pedant!)
y4r4
+2
Level 40
May 28, 2021
Surprised Stockholm is there but no Helsinki and Oslo!
Gaicoye
+5
Level 35
Feb 29, 2024
Sweden almost has the same population as Norway and Finland combined
ItzIngenious
+2
Level 66
Jun 2, 2021
You should accept Petersburg.
selful
+4
Level 69
Jan 3, 2022
That makes no sense because there are already cities in the world with that name.Why would you willingly spell it wrong?
camus
+9
Level 80
Jun 15, 2021
I've since created a blog article about the Ruhr issue. It's so weird to read all these statements if you're from the region. Imagine being from Philadelphia and reading that people "consider" your city to be part of the South, or to belong to the Boston metro area.
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 91
Jun 17, 2021
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
AndyJ
+2
Level 66
Aug 6, 2025
To be fair the distance from Philadelphia to Boston is roughly the same as the distance between the Ruhr and Berlin so it's not really a valid comparison. Also does your blog not exist anymore? The link doesn't work
tjasohalt
+6
Level 50
Jun 15, 2021
the titles "biggest cities" doesnt really fit imo if the quiz is about urban populations. Like Stuttgart definitely doesnt have over 2 million inhabitants, we have less than 700,000
NokiaQFikec
+2
Level 62
Jun 15, 2021
missed amsterdam, kharkov, leeds and sheffield
barackobama69420
+1
Level 33
Jun 17, 2021
yes
khizerbaijan
+1
Level 53
Jun 18, 2021
got 40 but somehow missed paris
y4r4
+2
Level 40
Jun 21, 2021
How did I forgot London?!? I wanna cry!
coookie100
+1
Level 26
Jul 26, 2021
50/50

I’m smart

Benloveswwe
+1
Level 21
Aug 13, 2021
Why no st petersburg
Benloveswwe
+1
Level 21
Aug 13, 2021
You mint have it
OriginalGuilty
+1
Level 19
Aug 20, 2021
So Hard
Hampus
+2
Level 56
Oct 26, 2021
I typed krakov and got kharkiv ;l
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 7, 2025
Same :D
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 83
Dec 13, 2021
I love when I get one that many people didn't get. Like, yes, I did miss Liverpool, but I did guess Yekaterinburg!
GrantisAtlantis3
+1
Level 24
Dec 30, 2021
Only missed Valencia 😪
selful
+2
Level 69
Jan 3, 2022
I just moved to Norway's most historical city (possibly) NARVIK!!! in the north! where its cold!
Jiff123
+2
Level 47
Feb 21, 2022
I.. forgot London but got Yekaterinburg.
Erica03
+3
Level 35
May 6, 2022
Istanbul shouldn’t be considered Europe.
Minecraftyoshi2
+4
Level 57
Feb 13, 2025
Half of it is
JZG77
+1
Level 40
Jul 6, 2025
Except that it is Europe. How you feel about it doesn't matter.
sallikegeography
+3
Level 28
Jun 18, 2022
im sorry but as a german i can tell you that neither stuttgart nor frankfurt have that many inhabitants???
brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
Jun 11, 2024
the source website is also German so have it off with them I guess?
PerfectGuessrGeo
+3
Level 7
Jul 13, 2022
Why Is Upper Silesia here? The biggest city in Upper Silesia has only 354.200 people! Theoretically you can call every bigger region as a urban area. That is so confusing.
Sadina
+3
Level 32
Jul 21, 2022
I was so supried at how many British cities made the list, when I tried quite a few capitals that didn't make it
Nickelz
+11
Level 69
Nov 13, 2022
Yekaterinburg is not even a European city.
Dimby
+6
Level 83
Apr 16, 2025
True. They claim to have the border in their city, but I think even the sign showing the Asia/Europe “border” is a bit west of the city. They’re definitely east of the Urals, in any case.
toowise
+1
Level 81
Jul 6, 2025
You can see the border, or at least a monument to it with a line, on GSV and as you say it is just west of the city. It is, however, inside of their ring road. Most of the population of Yekaterinburg is however east of the line.
Fomalhaut
+1
Level 57
Dec 22, 2022
Well I think danzig could be an alternative to gdansk :)
Fomalhaut
+1
Level 57
Dec 22, 2022
Also, stalingrad to st. petersburg, and constantinople to istanbul
Djilas
+1
Level 86
Apr 16, 2025
That's 3 cities though
AK11BJK
+1
Level 20
Apr 24, 2025
No?
G30GR4PHY
+1
Level 59
Jun 5, 2025
Stalingrad is attributed to Volgograd, another city in Russia. You're thinking of Leningrad.
katieeeeeeeeeeee
+2
Level 64
Aug 27, 2024
Also USSR for Russia, Edo for Tokyo, and Pangea for North & South America, Eurasia, Oceania, Africa, and Antarctica
megaloceros
+1
Level 71
Mar 4, 2025
USSR and Russia are distinct political entities. They are not the same
Dimby
+1
Level 83
Apr 16, 2025
Suuuuuuuuuure.
Samuelfghk
+1
Level 39
Aug 25, 2025
It's not even on the list. Even if we consider the agglomeration including Gdynia and Sopot (Trojmiasto), it's not even a million.
equivallent
+2
Level 54
Feb 1, 2023
frankfurt barely has 700k people so it is very far from being on this list
RJG
+1
Level 63
Feb 10, 2023
42/50 can't believe i missed Copenhagen and Newcastle.
notjakob
+2
Level 35
May 8, 2023
Frankfurt on 3.6 Million??
Kalikiano98
+6
Level 44
Jul 2, 2023
Took me many tries but was really fun. I also agree that Yekaterinburg might be a stretch based on its location.
Carrutos
+2
Level 66
Jul 8, 2023
Samara and Tolyatti form an agglomeration of 2-3 million people, weird that the source doesn’t count that.
HydratedMite
+1
Level 68
Mar 27, 2024
Samara and Tolyatti are nowhere near each other???
Gewuerztraminer
+5
Level 45
Aug 5, 2023
Mannheim is a really strange pick here, maybe include the rhein-neckar metropolitan area instead. Mannheim is not even in the top 15 largest cities in Germany
AK11BJK
+1
Level 20
Apr 24, 2025
Du hast Recht mein Freund.
Horaldgeo
+4
Level 52
Aug 27, 2023
This is very but i mean really extremely inaccurate, maybe most of the cities fits there, alright, but the order is crazy, use a normal source next time.
EpicFailure
+1
Level 30
Dec 25, 2023
48/50 missed Dublin and Valencia
NorgeWolfeler
+1
Level 47
Jan 7, 2024
Upper Silesia have 3 million not 2.33 million
Lilylee
+1
Level 79
Jan 27, 2024
With the same logic there's The Ruhr, maybe add Randstad?
Guulkrul2000
+4
Level 66
Mar 26, 2024
Please separate Rotterdam and The Hague. They are not considered to be one city. If 'the Ruhr' is an answer, then 'the Randstad' should also be an answer, which is Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam and Utrecht combined (and more)
PolPetrol
+1
Level 59
May 15, 2024
Brussels 2.7 million?? Bwahahahaha.
Samuelfghk
+1
Level 39
Jun 13, 2024
I was searching in Russia and forgot about Copenhagen... Anyway 41/50
Nestormakhno
+1
Level 79
Jun 27, 2024
surely Kazan has more than 1.4 million
RedStar12345
+2
Level 55
Jul 24, 2024
I wrote Constantinople, with no success. For some reason, I never though about writing Istanbul
Albrik
+6
Level 66
Aug 14, 2024
Yekaterinburg is not in Europe, it's over the Ural
minnakronberg
+2
Level 67
Sep 9, 2024
Surely Nizhni Novogorod should be accepted. Both are a transliteration anyway and I've seed the spelling with i at the end on other quizzes here.
AKAbi
+4
Level 52
Nov 29, 2024
Mannheim (Germany) has NOT 1.58 Million population.

Metropolitan etc. is fake, this city has not more than 300-400 thousand people.

I live there, that‘s crazy.!

(Edit) Even with the surrounding areas it (only) makes about 800-900 thousand.

AK11BJK
+2
Level 20
Apr 24, 2025
You are right my friend.
Berney
+6
Level 84
Apr 15, 2025
Why are Manchester and Liverpool lumped together? They are completely separate and very distinct cities.
megaloceros
+2
Level 71
Apr 15, 2025
The urban area is contiguous
kitsims
+2
Level 86
Apr 15, 2025
No, it’s not. There is significant green/agricultural space between the two. My mother lived in a small rural village located near Warrington, halfway between Manchester and Liverpool.
TWM03
+2
Level 72
Apr 20, 2025
Soon Citypopulation.de is probably going to decide that New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC all form one "urban area". From looking at satellite photos, I think there may in fact be a stronger argument for this than grouping Manchester and Liverpool together!
AndyJ
+1
Level 66
Aug 6, 2025
That already kind of exists. You should look into the Northeast Megalopolis
Seanthesheep
+7
Level 76
Apr 16, 2025
Has been said many times already but Yekatrinburg is not in Europe. Sources: Wikipedia: "Geographically, Yekaterinburg is in North Asia, close to the Ural Mountains" and "Of the 16 Russian cities with over 1 million inhabitants, 12 lie within European Russia: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Voronezh, Perm and Volgograd (the remaining four are Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk)." US Embassy: "Yekaterinburg lies at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, east of the slopes of the Ural Mountains in central Russia."
Hardeep
+3
Level 68
Apr 16, 2025
Can we protest against using citypopulation.de as a source
PolPetrol
+2
Level 59
Apr 22, 2025
Absolutely!
PolPetrol
+1
Level 59
Apr 22, 2025
Brussels 2.8 million?? Bwahahahaha.
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
May 16, 2025
Can you accept Beograd for Belgrade?
Jules38260
+1
Level 67
Jun 7, 2025
If we are talking about urban areas, some are missing : Madrid, Stockholm, Antwerp, etc...
AndyJ
+1
Level 66
Aug 6, 2025
Madrid and Stockholm are on the quiz and Antwerp only has 1.27 million per the source?
Euronick61
+3
Level 69
Jun 21, 2025
Liverpool and Manchester are two separate cities .. you can't count them as one
Constantinos
+1
Level 75
Jul 6, 2025
Yekaterinburg is entirely east of the Urals so defo not European.
Alouka
+1
Level 74
Jul 6, 2025
Well done, I managed to not get my own capital city because I didn't realise I wasn't writing it in English. I tried it 3 times XD I guess I'll need a bit more cafein today
workie
+1
Level 70
Jul 6, 2025
In other quizzes, e.g. Countries of the world, Jetpunk class Turkey as being in Asia.
JZG77
+1
Level 40
Jul 6, 2025
Because most of Turkey is in Asia (97%) with only Eastern Thrace region being in Europe. Half of İstanbul is Europe geographically and culture+history wise it is natural to clasiffy it as entirely European.
CreeperFRFRFR
+1
Level 40
Jul 6, 2025
Istanbul is in turkey xD
Penguin
+1
Level 50
Jul 6, 2025
how tf did i miss birmingham but got nizhny novgorod and yekaterinburg... and I am scottish 😭😭😭
AndyJ
+1
Level 66
Aug 6, 2025
I'm fascinated by the many Europeans pushing back against measuring their cities by urban area. As an American, I think it is a better metric for American cities as the city proper limits feel very arbitrary and usually don't cover the whole "city" so to speak. I guess it feels different in Europe
brandybuck96
+2
Level 82
Aug 20, 2025
I don't know if this is the case for all examples, but certainly in the UK, many towns that are considered part of an "urban area" consider themselves to have a distinct identity, and indeed often existed for centuries as a separate entity before they were engulfed, in very recent history, into a bigger sprawl. I'm not really an expert on US history, but I feel like your cities and urban areas might have developed differently given they were built with more intention and are much more modern?
QRU
+1
Level 77
Sep 27, 2025
citypopulations definition is bizzarely wide, it encompasses whole regions, and adds up cities, that are not continuously connected, have distinct cultural identities, different administrative structures, sometimes are in different states, are not part of a common commuter area, etc. It's just way too big to make any sense.
chaostess
+2
Level 68
Oct 27, 2025
thought Yekaterinburg was in Asia.
Albrik
+1
Level 66
Mar 30, 2026
Me too, it's on the east of the Urals so it technically is
Gaara2706
+2
Level 44
Nov 12, 2025
Never ever does the urban area of mannheim have this many inhabitants,
DesolationRow
+1
Level 52
Nov 29, 2025
Finally got them all, kept forgetting Turin, Nizhny Novgorod, Mannheim, and Stuttgart
BuzzMcCalister23
+1
Level 52
Apr 3, 2026
Russian and ukrainian ones are catastrophic to spell correctly
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