Biggest Cities in Europe

Try to name the 50 most populous urban areas in Europe.

Urban population according to citypopulation.de, 2021

Includes three cities that straddle Europe and Asia

We filled in three loosely-defined areas

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First submitted	April 23, 2012
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Average score	60.0%
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Population	City
17.4 m	Moscow
16.2 m	Istanbul
14.8 m	London
11.4 m	Paris
6.70 m	Madrid
6.15 m	Milan
5.65 m	Saint Petersburg
5.60 m	The Ruhr
5.00 m	Cologne / Düsseldorf
4.88 m	Barcelona
4.75 m	Berlin
4.15 m	Naples
3.50 m	Athens
3.50 m	Rome
3.48 m	Kyiv
3.28 m	Frankfurt
3.28 m	Rotterdam / The Hague
3.15 m	Birmingham

Population	City
3.08 m	Manchester
2.88 m	Hamburg
2.73 m	Brussels
2.63 m	Budapest
2.50 m	Amsterdam
2.50 m	Lisbon
2.40 m	Stuttgart
2.35 m	Warsaw
2.33 m	Upper Silesia
2.28 m	Munich
2.25 m	Stockholm
2.23 m	Vienna
2.20 m	Bucharest
2.15 m	Leeds
2.05 m	Minsk
1.99 m	Lyon
1.88 m	Liverpool
1.87 m	Valencia

Population	City
1.73 m	Nizhny Novgorod
1.69 m	Copenhagen
1.69 m	Glasgow
1.68 m	Marseille
1.67 m	Yekaterinburg
1.63 m	Kharkiv
1.61 m	Turin
1.58 m	Mannheim
1.57 m	Sheffield
1.49 m	Newcastle
1.46 m	Prague
1.45 m	Zurich
1.44 m	Donetsk
1.43 m	Belgrade
1.40 m	Chelyabinsk
1.40 m	Dublin
1.40 m	Volgograd

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101 Recent Comments

Level 23

May 12, 2020

This quiz is only copy ''100 biggest European cities'' but without map.

Level 62

Nov 2, 2022

For starters, one has 50 answers and the other has 100 answers.

Level 52

Jun 5, 2020

i thought istanbul was in asia but turned out that half of it is in asia and half of it is in europe

Level 44

Jun 15, 2020

Please accept Nipples for Naples.

+13

Level 81

Jul 24, 2020

And button for Bhutan? Mr. President is that you? Don't you have more important responsibilities than taking quizzes right now? Like... tweeting about beans?

Level 68

Jan 3, 2022

Level 60

Jun 17, 2020

A bit of a side note, but why isn't Leningrad a type-in for St Petersburg?

Level 66

Feb 26, 2021

For very good reasons

Level 68

Jan 3, 2022

Leningrad does not exist anymore.The cities name is now St.Petersburg except that already

Level 34

Apr 15, 2024

Yet Petrograd is accepted

Level 28

Jun 19, 2020

Moscow, come on. Asian country.

Asia!

+14

Level 81

Jul 24, 2020

is this comment supposed to make sense?

Level 59

Aug 27, 2024

Russia is considered to be a part of multiple continents, and Moscow is on the European side.

Eurasia!

Level 53

Aug 5, 2020

Please accept Livarpool.

+10

Level 93

Mar 18, 2021

Please learn to spell.

Level 68

Jan 3, 2022

Why,you are deliberately spelling it incorrectly.

Level 29

Aug 13, 2020

Got 30...

Level 47

Aug 23, 2020

I forgot prague lol

Level 77

Sep 2, 2020

Mannheim doesn't really have a million inhabitants. Neither does Leeds nor Stuttgart

Level 49

Sep 16, 2020

I can't comment on the Mannheim and Stuttgart conurbations, but "Leeds" (the West Yorkshire conurbation under the urban area definition stated at the top of this quiz) is easily over a million. Leeds + Bradford + Huddersfield combined are probably around a million, even before adding in the countless other towns in the area.

Level 30

Jan 13, 2025

Mannheim (350k), Heidelberg (160k) and Ludwigshafen (175k) have together 685k inhabtiants. If you now include all the smaller cities and towns around you can get a Million. Maybe Frankenthal and Speyer (both 50 k) are included, than we have 685k. With Worms it would be additional 80k. I don't know where the borders of an agglomeration ends exactly.

Frankfurt, Mainz, Offenbach, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden and Hanau are too put together.

Level 40

Jan 16, 2025

thats a lot of worms holy

Level 47

Sep 3, 2020

I always thought Chelyabinsk was in Asia. Apparently it's sort of on the border. Doesn't matter, because there's no real reason to split Eurasia into two continents.

Level 67

Mar 27, 2024

No way, it's clearly east of the Urals

Level 69

Nov 2, 2024

You are agreeing its in Asia?

Level 21

Sep 21, 2020

It should not say Largest Cities, but Largest Agglomerations. Frankfurt City has only 700k inhabitants ... only if you count the large region around this would sum up to what is depicted here. I live there xD

Level 24

Sep 23, 2020

Why Ruhr is not answer in jetpunk quizzes

Level 38

Oct 14, 2024

Because „Ruhr“ is not a city, but that entire area around Cologne/Gelsenkirchen/Dortmund/Düsseldorf/Duisburg/etc and it gets very messy to see where one citys‘ area ends and where the others‘ begins. Thus you just say Ruhr and save yourself a headache.

Level 61

Oct 25, 2020

Just want to say that the city of Madrid doesn't have 6M people, that's the whole province which is a huge territory (8,000 sqkm, almost like whole Puerto Rico). The city has around 3M people.

Level 59

Oct 27, 2020

The quiz is still fun though... I didn't know Chelyabinsk was a city.

Level 45

Nov 10, 2020

Yeah, I remembered it for the meteor explosion, didn't think it would count but it did!

Level 44

Nov 15, 2020

Having gone through the 2020 version of this website, there are a number of anomalies and updates to suggest. 1. Brussels is listed as 2.7m, not 1.41 - big change in 2 years! 2. Katowice is listed but not Upper Silesia - are they the same? If so, Katowice should be accepted. 3. Yekaterinburg is in the 2020 list, after Kharkiv, and ahead of Mannheim. 4. Porto (Portugal) is listed at 1,54m. Not on your list. 5. Dnepropetrovsk is not on your list, but is listed just ahead of Dublin at 1.39m. I suggest an update based on 2020 figures. It would mean some tail enders would drop off, and there would be considerable rearranging of the sequence!

Level 22

Jan 24, 2021

Zurich has 0.4 Mio. not 1.4 Mio

Level 43

Jan 30, 2021

Urban area population

Level 21

Feb 17, 2021

Wait, What? Nottingham has 1.37 million inhabitants? That can only be possible by counting the large area around the city. Not the actual city itself.

Level 78

Feb 26, 2021

The quiz is about urban areas, even though it has cities in the title.

Level 58

Mar 2, 2021

Zurich has 0.42 millions not 1.42 m!

Level 54

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.

Level 78

Mar 17, 2021

I can never remember Nizhny Novgorod. It sounds like a Harry Potter character from Durmstrang.

Level 25

Mar 22, 2021

Dangit! I missed Kharkiv even though I study Ukraine in school

Level 55

Mar 24, 2021

Im 14 and only forgot mannheim

Level 59

Aug 27, 2024

Congrats, what should we do about that

Level 80

Mar 30, 2021

I got all EXCPT Donetsk!!

Level 73

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!)

Level 41

May 28, 2021

Surprised Stockholm is there but no Helsinki and Oslo!

Level 37

Feb 29, 2024

Sweden almost has the same population as Norway and Finland combined

Level 65

Jun 2, 2021

You should accept Petersburg.

Level 68

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?

Level 56

Jun 15, 2021

Big question: Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg are in Europe or in Asia ??

Level 49

Jun 16, 2021

They're two of the three cities that "straddle Europe and Asia."

Level 67

Mar 27, 2024

They don't really straddle Europe and Asia though, they're clearly in Asian Russia. I thought those three were Istanbul, Nizhny, and Volgograd

Level 78

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.

Level 89

Jun 17, 2021

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Level 51

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

Level 60

Jun 15, 2021

missed amsterdam, kharkov, leeds and sheffield

Level 34

Jun 17, 2021

yes

Level 54

Jun 18, 2021

got 40 but somehow missed paris

Level 41

Jun 21, 2021

How did I forgot London?!? I wanna cry!

Level 26

Jul 26, 2021

50/50

I’m smart

Level 21

Aug 13, 2021

Why no st petersburg

Level 21

Aug 13, 2021

You mint have it

Level 19

Aug 20, 2021

So Hard

Level 56

Oct 26, 2021

I typed krakov and got kharkiv ;l

Level 82

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!

Level 25

Dec 30, 2021

Only missed Valencia 😪

Level 49

Dec 31, 2021

Chelyabinsk is VERY CLEARLY east of the Urals, and therefore in Asia

Level 68

Jan 3, 2022

I just moved to Norway's most historical city (possibly) NARVIK!!! in the north! where its cold!

Level 47

Feb 21, 2022

I.. forgot London but got Yekaterinburg.

Level 36

May 6, 2022

Istanbul shouldn’t be considered Europe.

Level 56

Feb 13, 2025

Half of it is

Level 27

Jun 18, 2022

im sorry but as a german i can tell you that neither stuttgart nor frankfurt have that many inhabitants???

Level 83

Jun 11, 2024

the source website is also German so have it off with them I guess?

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.

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

Level 41

Oct 14, 2022

Is anybody else a geoguessr player get Chelyabinsk immediately?

Level 67

Nov 13, 2022

Yekaterinburg is not even a European city.

Level 44

Dec 22, 2022

Well I think danzig could be an alternative to gdansk :)

Level 44

Dec 22, 2022

Also, stalingrad to st. petersburg, and constantinople to istanbul

Level 59

Aug 27, 2024

Also USSR for Russia, Edo for Tokyo, and Pangea for North & South America, Eurasia, Oceania, Africa, and Antarctica

Level 54

Feb 1, 2023

frankfurt barely has 700k people so it is very far from being on this list

Level 62

Feb 10, 2023

42/50 can't believe i missed Copenhagen and Newcastle.

Level 36

May 8, 2023

Frankfurt on 3.6 Million??

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.

Level 66

Jul 8, 2023

Samara and Tolyatti form an agglomeration of 2-3 million people, weird that the source doesn’t count that.

Level 67

Mar 27, 2024

Samara and Tolyatti are nowhere near each other???

Level 44

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

Level 51

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.

Level 30

Dec 25, 2023

48/50 missed Dublin and Valencia

Level 39

Jan 7, 2024

Upper Silesia have 3 million not 2.33 million

Level 76

Jan 27, 2024

With the same logic there's The Ruhr, maybe add Randstad?

Level 57

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)

Level 56

Apr 4, 2024

I think Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk are definitely in Asia and also I think other sources should be used because Sheffield and Mannheim especially are far too small to be included in the list.

Level 56

May 15, 2024

Brussels 2.7 million?? Bwahahahaha.

Level 38

Jun 13, 2024

I was searching in Russia and forgot about Copenhagen... Anyway 41/50

Level 73

Jun 27, 2024

surely Kazan has more than 1.4 million

Level 50

Jul 24, 2024

I wrote Constantinople, with no success. For some reason, I never though about writing Istanbul

Level 57

Aug 14, 2024

Yekaterinburg is not in Europe, it's over the Ural

Level 66

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.

Level 56

Nov 18, 2024

Brussels 2.7M?? Where did they even get that from? If you count the whole official Brussels Region PLUS the surrounding province (chich has NOTHING to do with Brussels) you would still have less than 2.7M...

Also, if Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg are European cities, then Kinshasa might as well be one too.

Level 30

Nov 29, 2024

That‘s crazy

By the way yes, if you count them you need to count Ankara etc.

Level 30

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.

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