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All 100K+ Cities of Europe Before World War II on a Map

In 1939, right before the start of World War II, there were 297 cities in Europe with a population of 100,000 or higher. Can you name them all, with the help of a map?
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Some, mostly British cities have merged into larger ones since 1939!
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Country
City
Population
German Reich
Berlin
4,321,521
Soviet Union
Moscow
4,141,633
United Kingdom
London
4,013,400
Soviet Union
Saint Petersburg
3,191,304
France
Paris
2,829,746
German Reich
Vienna
1,912,608
German Reich
Hamburg
1,698,388
Spain
Barcelona
1,305,000
Poland
Warsaw
1,265,700
Italy
Rome
1,257,890
Italy
Milan
1,188,200
Spain
Madrid
1,139,000
United Kingdom
Glasgow
1,126,000
Hungary
Budapest
1,115,877
United Kingdom
Birmingham
1,029,700
German Reich
Prague
976,759
Italy
Naples
910,139
Soviet Union
Kyiv
846,000
United Kingdom
Liverpool
836,300
Soviet Union
Kharkiv
833,000
German Reich
Munich
815,212
Netherlands
Amsterdam
800,700
German Reich
Cologne
768,352
Turkey
Istanbul
741,148
United Kingdom
Manchester
736,500
German Reich
Leipzig
702,155
Denmark
Copenhagen
698,805
Italy
Turin
679,842
Poland
Łódź
665,200
German Reich
Essen
664,523
Italy
Genoa
648,220
Romania
Bucharest
648,162
Soviet Union
Nizhny Novgorod
643,689
German Reich
Dresden
629,713
German Reich
Wrocław
620,976
France
Marseille
620,232
Netherlands
Rotterdam
619,700
Soviet Union
Odesa
601,651
Portugal
Lisbon
594,390
Sweden
Stockholm
583,621
France
Lyon
570,622
German Reich
Frankfurt am Main
548,220
German Reich
Dortmund
537,865
German Reich
Düsseldorf
535,753
United Kingdom
Sheffield
518,200
Netherlands
The Hague
504,200
Soviet Union
Rostov-on-Don
502,928
Soviet Union
Dnipro
500,636
Greece
Athens
499,360
United Kingdom
Leeds
491,880
Ireland
Dublin
487,500
United Kingdom
Edinburgh
468,500
Soviet Union
Donetsk
466,268
German Reich
Hanover
464,646
German Reich
Stuttgart
454,346
Soviet Union
Volgograd
445,312
United Kingdom
Belfast
443,500
German Reich
Duisburg
433,530
Italy
Palermo
426,625
German Reich
Nuremburg
420,349
German Reich
Bremen
419,266
United Kingdom
Bristol
415,100
German Reich
Wuppertal
399,718
Soviet Union
Kazan
398,014
Latvia
Riga
393,211
Soviet Union
Samara
390,488
Spain
Valencia
388,000
German Reich
Szczecin
374,017
Soviet Union
Saratov
372,002
German Reich
Kaliningrad
360,577
Italy
Florence
345,420
German Reich
Chemnitz
334,713
German Reich
Magdeburg
329,824
Soviet Union
Voronezh
326,932
Switzerland
Zurich
324,400
United Kingdom
Kingston upon Hull
319,400
Poland
Lviv
317,700
German Reich
Gelsenkirchen
317,505
Italy
Bologna
308,611
German Reich
Bochum
305,469
Finland
Helsinki
304,965
Soviet Union
Yaroslavl
299,359
German Reich
Brno
295,400
United Kingdom
Newcastle upon Tyne
290,400
United Kingdom
Bradford
289,510
Soviet Union
Zaporizhzhia
289,280
Greece
Piraeus
287,800
Bulgaria
Sofia
287,095
Soviet Union
Ivanovo
285,182
Soviet Union
Arkhangelsk
284,570
Italy
Venice
280,855
Sweden
Gothenburg
280,602
German Reich
Mannheim
280,365
United Kingdom
Nottingham
278,800
Norway
Oslo
274,223
Belgium
Antwerp
273,317
United Kingdom
Stoke-on-Trent
272,800
Soviet Union
Tula
272,224
Poland
Poznań
268,800
Greece
Thessaloniki
268,140
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
266,849
United Kingdom
Leicester
262,900
German Reich
Kiel
261,298
United Kingdom
West Ham
259,500
France
Bordeaux
258,348
Italy
Trieste
256,235
United Kingdom
Portsmouth
256,200
Free City of Danzig
Gdańsk
255,700
Soviet Union
Perm
255,236
Poland
Kraków
254,600
Soviet Union
Astrakhan
253,595
Soviet Union
Ufa
250,011
Italy
Catania
248,772
Spain
Seville
247,000
United Kingdom
Croydon
242,300
France
Nice
241,916
Soviet Union
Makiivka
241,897
Soviet Union
Minsk
238,948
Portugal
Porto
232,280
United Kingdom
Cardiff
224,850
Soviet Union
Mariupol
223,796
Spain
Málaga
222,000
German Reich
Halle
217,480
Soviet Union
Tver
216,000
France
Toulouse
213,220
Spain
Bilbao
212,000
Soviet Union
Luhansk
211,682
German Reich
Kassel
211,624
United Kingdom
Plymouth
210,460
Poland
Vilnius
208,500
Italy
Bari
207,477
German Reich
Graz
204,779
United Kingdom
Coventry
204,700
Soviet Union
Krasnodar
203,806
Spain
Zaragoza
203,000
United Kingdom
Salford
201,800
Italy
Messina
200,820
France
Lille
200,575
Soviet Union
Kryvyi Rih
197,600
Spain
Murcia
195,658
France
Nantes
195,185
France
Strasbourg
193,119
German Reich
Oberhausen
191,829
Belgium
Brussels
191,678
France
Saint-Étienne
190,236
German Reich
Braunschweig
189,628
Soviet Union
Taganrog
188,781
United Kingdom
Willesden
187,640
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
185,581
Country
City
Population
German Reich
Karlsruhe
184,489
United Kingdom
Sunderland
182,900
Soviet Union
Horlivka
181,500
German Reich
Augsburg
180,039
United Kingdom
Southampton
178,700
United Kingdom
Aberdeen
178,200
United Kingdom
Dundee
177,600
Soviet Union
Izhevsk
175,567
Soviet Union
Grozny
172,448
Soviet Union
Orenburg
171,726
United Kingdom
Bolton
170,400
German Reich
Krefeld
170,205
Soviet Union
Vitebsk
167,299
Soviet Union
Mykolaiv
166,688
Italy
Verona
165,786
German Reich
Wiesbaden
165,646
Netherlands
Utrecht
165,000
France
Le Havre
164,083
Belgium
Ghent
162,858
Belgium
Liège
162,229
Switzerland
Basel
161,900
United Kingdom
Swansea
161,750
Soviet Union
Zlatoust
161,000
Soviet Union
Penza
159,776
German Reich
Aachen
159,631
German Reich
Erfurt
159,201
United Kingdom
Ilford
157,300
Soviet Union
Smolensk
156,884
United Kingdom
Ealing
156,460
Sweden
Malmö
154,270
Lithuania
Kaunas
154,109
German Reich
Mainz
154,033
Spain
Granada
152,006
German Reich
Hagen
151,481
France
Toulon
150,310
German Reich
Lübeck
149,502
Italy
Padua
148,895
Italy
Taranto
148,839
Soviet Union
Kamianske
147,800
United Kingdom
Brighton
146,700
Estonia
Tallinn
146,388
United Kingdom
Tottenham
146,200
Soviet Union
Magnitogorsk
145,900
United Kingdom
Birkenhead
145,500
United Kingdom
Wolverhampton
144,000
Soviet Union
Rybinsk
144,000
German Reich
Ludwigshafen am Rhein
143,934
Soviet Union
Kirov
143,558
Soviet Union
Simferopol
142,634
Netherlands
Haarlem
140,500
German Reich
Solingen
140,453
United Kingdom
Derby
139,700
United Kingdom
Middlesbrough
139,600
Soviet Union
Gomel
139,120
Slovakia
Bratislava
138,981
United Kingdom
Southend on Sea
137,400
Poland
Bydgoszcz
137,100
German Reich
Mülheim an der Ruhr
136,828
Poland
Częstochowa
136,000
Spain
Córdoba
135,674
Soviet Union
Shakhty
135,000
United Kingdom
Stockport
133,700
Poland
Katowice
132,900
German Reich
Münster
132,760
Italy
Livorno
132,506
United Kingdom
Walthamstow
131,900
Hungary
Szeged
131,893
Italy
Brescia
131,780
German Reich
Saarbrücken
131,285
United Kingdom
East Ham
131,100
Soviet Union
Vladikavkaz
130,755
Soviet Union
Poltava
130,487
German Reich
Ostrava
129,993
German Reich
Mönchengladbach
128,329
United Kingdom
Oldham
127,800
German Reich
Bielefeld
126,711
German Reich
Potsdam
126,241
German Reich
Zabrze
126,079
United Kingdom
Huddersfield
125,500
Poland
Sosnowiec
124,500
United Kingdom
Blackpool
123,800
Belgium
Schaerbeek
123,468
Soviet Union
Tambov
123,207
United Kingdom
Hendon
123,200
Switzerland
Geneva
123,150
Spain
Vigo
123,105
German Reich
Linz
123,062
United Kingdom
Norwich
123,000
France
Rouen
122,832
Italy
Ferrara
122,803
Hungary
Debrecen
122,517
Netherlands
Groningen
121,500
Soviet Union
Kostroma
121,325
France
Nancy
121,301
Switzerland
Bern
121,050
United Kingdom
Bournemouth
121,000
Italy
Reggio Calabria
120,906
Soviet Union
Kursk
120,000
Poland
Lublin
119,900
German Reich
Pilsen
119,832
Italy
Cagliari
118,393
German Reich
Rostock
118,048
United Kingdom
Gateshead
117,600
Italy
La Spezia
117,257
Spain
Palma
117,188
German Reich
Dessau
117,110
Soviet Union
Murmansk
117,069
France
Reims
116,687
German Reich
Bremerhaven
114,048
United Kingdom
Blackburn
114,000
Poland
Gdynia
113,800
Denmark
Frederiksberg
113,706
United Kingdom
Preston
113,600
Netherlands
Eindhoven
113,100
Romania
Chișinău
112,500
United Kingdom
Leyton
111,100
United Kingdom
South Shields
111,000
German Reich
Darmstadt
110,982
Soviet Union
Oryol
110,564
Romania
Chernivtsi
109,698
German Reich
Plauen
109,556
Spain
Valladolid
109,538
Italy
Parma
109,365
Soviet Union
Sevastopol
109,104
Poland
Chorzów
109,100
German Reich
Freiburg im Breisgau
108,481
United Kingdom
Saint Helens
107,400
France
Roubaix
107,105
Norway
Bergen
107,003
Poland
Białystok
107,000
United Kingdom
Walsall
106,800
Italy
Modena
104,657
Romania
Iași
104,471
Soviet Union
Kerch
104,443
German Reich
Osnabrück
104,086
German Reich
Remscheid
103,912
German Reich
Wilhelmshaven
103,842
Soviet Union
Ulyanovsk
103,779
Soviet Union
Dzerzhinsk
103,400
Romania
Galați
102,232
German Reich
Würzburg
101,345
France
Clermont-Ferrand
101,128
German Reich
Bytom
101,029
Soviet Union
Kropyvnytskyi
100,392
Romania
Cluj-Napoca
100,272
United Kingdom
Reading
100,200
United Kingdom
York
100,090
Yugoslavia
Subotica
100,058
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3 Comments
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Level 67
Nov 11, 2025
NOTICE: Map is not 100% accurate, especially around the Soviet Europe-Asia divide.

Sources for population estimates can be found here (8 total)

ADDITIONAL NOTICE: London's population seems so low because at the time many now-neighborhoods or boroughs of London were separate cities. When they merged with London in 1965 the population of London's city proper more than doubled

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Level 66
Nov 11, 2025
"Nizhny Novgorod" is the normal spelling

Jetpunk usually accepts "Nizhny" and that's it.

Accept it please.

Kaliningrad was still Königsberg so you should accept it too if you can, thanks

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Level 67
Nov 11, 2025
Ah. Thanks for letting me know. Will accept those type-ins and fix the spelling