Biggest Cities in Europe in 1850

Name the most populous European cities in the year of 1850.

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City proper, not urban area

If "-" is used as a placeholder under the 'Country' section, then it is a city state.

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Population	Country	City
2,313,086	United Kingdom	London
1,616,125	Austrian Empire	Vienna
1,053,467	France	Paris
667,222	Ottoman Empire	Constantinople
487,300	Russian Empire	Saint Petersburg
447,383	Two-Sicilies	Naples
421,355	Prussia	Berlin
369,680	Russian Empire	Moscow
367,008	United Kingdom	Liverpool
324,062	United Kingdom	Glasgow
278,973	United Kingdom	Manchester
247,212	United Kingdom	Leeds
246,484	United Kingdom	Dublin
227,666	United Kingdom	Birmingham
224,000	Netherlands	Amsterdam
223,409	Spain	Madrid
223,273	France	Lyon
206,339	Austrian Empire	Pest-Buda
205,143	Papal States	Rome
192,844	France	Marseille
185,542	United Kingdom	Edinburgh
185,000	Austrian Empire	Milan
184,890	United Kingdom	Bradford
179,548	Two-Sicilies	Palermo
175,711	Portugal	Lisbon
175,000	Spain	Barcelona
172,865	United Kingdom	Sheffield
170,277	-	Hamburg
163,600	Russian Empire	Varshava
158,431	United Kingdom	Bristol
148,611	Sardinia-Piedmont	Turin
147,667	Prussia	Breslau
146,648	Tuscany	Florence
141,732	Belgium	Brussels
134,190	France	Bordeaux
129,695	Denmark	Copenhagen
120,207	Austrian Empire	Venice
118,000	Austrian Empire	Prag
110,881	Sardinia-Piedmont	Genoa
109,385	Belgium	Ghent
106,965	United Kingdom	Salford
106,915	Spain	Seville
104,312	United Kingdom	Bolton
102,885	Belgium	Antwerp
102,080	Wallachia	Bucharest
100,502	Kingdom of Saxony	Dresden
100,482	Bavaria	Munich
100,071	France	Rouen
97,627	Belgium	Liège
97,074	Two-Sicilies	Messina
95,952	France	Nantes
94,368	Papal States	Bologna
93,495	France	Toulouse
93,074	Prussia	Cologne
92,033	Netherlands	Rotterdam
91,287	United Kingdom	Sunderland
89,114	Russia	Odessa
83,899	Tuscany	Livorno
82,434	United Kingdom	Cork
82,149	Spain	Málaga
79,473	Austria-Hungary	Lemberg
79,342	Prussia	Königsberg
78,992	United Kingdom	Newcastle
77,510	France	Lille
77,083	Ottoman Empire	Selanik
76,985	United Kingdom	Aberdeen
75,714	Ottoman Empire	Heraklion
75,556	Portugal	Porto
74,850	France	Strasbourg
72,000	Netherlands	The Hague
71,297	United Kingdom	Portsmouth
68,167	France	Toulon
67,677	United Kingdom	Preston
66,667	Prussia	Danzig
65,493	Austrian Empire	Graz
65,414	Spain	Granada
65,161	United Kingdom	Norwich
64,309	Russia	Riga
63,996	United Kingdom	Leicester
63,993	Russian Empire	Kazan
63,767	United Kingdom	Dundee
63,678	United Kingdom	Brighton
63,482	Two-Sicilies	Catania
62,980	-	Frankfurt
62,929	Spain	Cádiz
61,667	Russian Empire	Vilna
60,092	France	Brest
59,004	Austrian Empire	Verona
57,402	United Kingdom	Kingston-upon-Hull
57,358	Prussia	Magdeburg
56,522	United Kingdom	Stoke-on-Trent
56,059	-	Bremen
55,128	Russian Empire	Kishinev
54,903	United Kingdom	Gateshead
54,725	France	Saint-Étienne
54,199	Prussia	Potsdam
53,595	France	Nîmes
53,564	France	Nîmes
53,332	Austrian Empire	Ferrara
53,042	Prussia	Aachen
52,868	United Kingdom	Plymouth
52,727	Russia	Kiev
52,134	Austrian Empire	Padua
51,825	Bavaria	Nuremberg
51,798	United Kingdom	Oldham
51,637	France	Amiens
51,263	Württemberg	Stuttgart
51,211	Austria-Hungary	Brünn
50,831	Ottoman Empire	Adrianople
50,340	Austria-Hungary	Szeged
50,285	Spain	Zaragoza
50,056	Russian Empire	Saratov