250 Biggest Cities in Europe With a Map

Try to name as many of Europe's 250 largest cities as you can, with the help of a map.

By urban area, not city proper population

Bigger dots mean larger cities. Blue ones are capital cities, red ones are urban areas without a distinct center

Data from citypopulation.de, eurostat and wikipedia

Some cities straddle Europe and Asia

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Pop.	Answer
17.3m	Moscow
16.0m	Istanbul
14.8m	London
11.4m	Paris
6.55m	Madrid
6.20m	Milan
5.75m	The Ruhr
5.65m	Saint Petersburg
5.00m	Cologne / Dusseldorf
4.78m	Barcelona
4.73m	Berlin
4.23m	Naples
3.58m	Rome
3.48m	Kyiv
3.35m	Athens
3.25m	Frankfurt am Main
3.25m	Rotterdam / The Hague
3.15m	Birmingham
3.05m	Manchester
2.88m	Hamburg
2.70m	Brussels
2.63m	Budapest
2.48m	Amsterdam
2.48m	Lisbon
2.40m	Stuttgart
2.38m	Warsaw
2.35m	Upper Silesia
2.25m	Munich
2.25m	Vienna
2.23m	Stockholm
2.20m	Bucharest
2.18m	Leeds
2.00m	Minsk
1.98m	Lyon
1.88m	Liverpool
1.84m	Valencia
1.73m	Nizhny Novgorod
1.68m	Copenhagen
1.68m	Glasgow
1.66m	Marseille
1.66m	Yekaterinburg
1.64m	Kharkiv
1.64m	Turin
1.58m	Mannheim
1.57m	Sheffield
1.54m	Porto
1.48m	Newcastle
1.44m	Donetsk
1.44m	Prague
1.43m	Zürich
1.42m	Belgrade
1.41m	Chelyabinsk
1.41m	Volgograd
1.39m	Dnipro
1.39m	Dublin
1.38m	Nottingham
1.30m	Helsinki
1.30m	Rostov-on-Don
1.30m	Samara
1.30m	Sofia
1.29m	Lille
1.29m	Seville
1.26m	Kazan
1.22m	Antwerp
1.20m	Nuremberg
1.19m	Oslo
1.16m	Southampton
1.15m	Hanover
1.13m	Ufa
1.11m	Odessa
1.10m	Perm
1.09m	Saratov
1.08m	Bordeaux
1.06m	Voronezh
1.04m	Toulouse
1.03m	Málaga
1.01m	Florence
1.00m	Bremen
995k	Utrecht
960k	Cardiff
946k	Nice
935k	Bielefeld
935k	Edinburgh
926k	Bristol

Pop.	Answer
915k	Krasnodar
911k	Bilbao
907k	Saarbrücken
904k	Gdánsk
900k	Palermo
872k	Tirana
834k	Dresden
829k	Łódź
819k	Kraków
813k	Aachen
809k	Zagreb
806k	Thessaloniki
791k	Geneva
771k	Basel
756k	Tolyatti
748k	Leipzig
739k	Zaporizhia
726k	Zaragoza
725k	Lviv
720k	Makhachkala
716k	Nantes
712k	Coventry
712k	Leicester
708k	Gothenburg
704k	Catania
688k	Riga
685k	Murcia
653k	Liège
649k	Izhevsk
641k	Wrocław
628k	Ulyanovsk
625k	Kryvyi Rih
623k	Belfast
622k	Cheboksary
613k	Bologna
610k	Yaroslavl
598k	Poznań
596k	Brighton
586k	Bari
587k	Penza
585k	Chișinău
585k	Kirov
583k	West Brabant
581k	Genoa
581k	Toulon
572k	Vilnius
565k	Orenburg
560k	Arnhem / Nijmegen
558k	Ryazan
556k	Lipetsk
553k	Bournemouth
553k	Skopje
552k	Eindhoven
542k	Strasbourg
539k	Grenoble
534k	Astrakhan
534k	Naberezhnye Chelny
528k	Montpellier
528k	Stavropol
524k	Granada
520k	Ostrava
518k	Douai / Lens
516k	Karlsruhe
515k	Augsburg
511k	Middlesbrough
510k	Gomel
502k	Mönchengladbach
491k	Padua
490k	Alicante
489k	Malmö
487k	Rouen
483k	Mykolaiv
482k	Avignon
482k	Kaliningrad
479k	Tula
476k	Bratislava
472k	Palma de Mallorca
471k	Ghent
465k	Tallinn
463k	Verona
460k	Valletta
458k	Brescia
451k	Blackburn
450k	Kursk

Pop.	Answer
449k	Chemnitz
446k	Grozny
446k	Metz
442k	Stoke-on-Trent
441k	Saint Étienne
440k	Mariupol
439k	Sochi
438k	Brunswick
438k	Plovdiv
436k	Ivanovo
435k	Szczecin
433k	Venice
432k	Cagliari
428k	Lausanne
427k	Charleroi
426k	San Sebastian
423k	Brno
422k	Bern
421k	Tver
419k	Swansea
414k	Enschede
413k	Magnitogorsk
409k	Belgorod
409k	Rennes
409k	Sevastopol
406k	Vigo
404k	Bryansk
404k	Luhansk
403k	Kingston-upon-Hull
402k	Tarragona
402k	Tours
401k	Cadiz
399k	Modena
394k	Castellón de la Plana
388k	A Coruña
383k	Valladolid
379k	Aarhus
379k	Linz
379k	Lublin
379k	's-Hertogenbosch
373k	Ljubljana
371k	Sarajevo
370k	Vinnytsia
366k	Taranto
365k	Vitebsk
359k	Northampton
358k	Vladimir
357k	Grodno
357k	Mogilev
356k	Constanţa
355k	Pamplona
354k	Béthune
354k	Horlivka
352k	Freiburg im Breisgau
352k	Nizhny Tagil
350k	Bydgoszcz
349k	Koblenz
349k	Varna
348k	Archangelsk
348k	Graz
347k	Preston
346k	Clermont-Ferrand
345k	Massa
342k	Simferopol
341k	Valenciennes
340k	Brest
340k	Kassel
338k	Nancy
338k	Tampere
337k	Kaluga
332k	Heilbronn
329k	Smolensk
325k	Cluj-Napoca
325k	Kiel
325k	Maastricht
323k	Novi Sad
322k	Córdoba
322k	Pyatigorsk
322k	Tambov
321k	Brasov
319k	Halle
319k	Timișoara

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92 Comments

+17

Level 77

Oct 29, 2017

Great job!

+31

Level 62

Oct 29, 2017

Thanks, I actually stole one of your maps for this.

Level 66

Apr 1, 2018

Valletta, 380 000 inhabitants? Why did you took all the population of the island?

+21

Level 62

Apr 1, 2018

The island is practically a single urban area

+15

Level 69

Oct 13, 2020

It really isnt

Level 62

Nov 10, 2020

It really is for all intents and purposes, I've been there and it takes like an hour to get from one end to the other, the only bit I wouldn't include in the figure is the urban areas in Gozo, Rabat and a few other areas in the north so it wouldn't be the whole population of Malta but the population is almost 500,000 anyway so that figure seems very reasonable to me

Level 31

Nov 10, 2020

I got 91 and I am 9

+30

Level 75

Nov 11, 2020

I got 9 and I am 91.

Level 51

Dec 17, 2020

I got 19 and I am 9

Level 26

Jan 29, 2021

That is actually quite bad

Level 26

Jan 29, 2021

My high score is 145

Level 60

Aug 6, 2021

I got 199 and i am a blank space floating the Mesozoic Era.

Level 57

Dec 7, 2022

My high score is 275 and I am 9

+14

Level 62

May 21, 2018

Breda and Tilburg are two very separate cities. They're not connected in any way whatsoever. There aren't even buildings between them.

Putting them together as one urban area doesn't make sense. It's like saying Manchester and Liverpool are the same city; or New York and Philadelphia.

Level 59

Aug 18, 2018

In Spain there are bigger cities than Santander, Pamplona or Granada. Try Cordoba for example.

Level 62

Aug 25, 2018

Looks like you're right. Eurostat puts Cordoba at 362k, which would put it in this quiz.

Level 55

Oct 17, 2018

It looks like Basel is in Germany

Level 62

Oct 19, 2018

Most of the dots are a bit off. I used a script to fetch the location of each city off the google maps API then used that data to place them all on the map. Either the map is a bit off, or the google maps API didn't give me the right location.

Level 78

Jun 23, 2019

One of the dots seem to be missing altogether. I missed Brest, then looked for it on the map afterwards and it isn't there.

+12

Level 62

Jun 24, 2019

There are 2 cities named Brest in Europe. The one on the tip of Bretagne and one on the border of Poland and Belarus, formerly known as Brest-Litovsk. The former isn't big enough to make it into the list though.

Level 78

Jun 27, 2019

Thanks for putting me straight on that.

Level 49

Jan 20, 2019

When I type in Lasi nothing happens. Has anyone else had the same problem?

+15

Level 48

Feb 25, 2019

First letter is a capital "i", not an "L"

Level 48

Feb 25, 2019

Can Dniepropetrovsk be a type-in?

Level 75

Mar 8, 2023

Why try to spell that when you could just say 'Dnipro'. They changed the name in 2016.

Level 59

Aug 6, 2019

Rotterdam isn't an answer?

Level 67

Oct 16, 2020

It's merged with the Hague.

Level 15

Apr 8, 2024

I hate when they merge the two. They are very much seperate cities for all intents and purposes. The only thing this would have going for it is that there's a metro connecting the two cities, but that still doesn't make it one city. Especially because The Hague is the seat of the government it would make more sense if it was separate

Level 23

Aug 26, 2019

Parma is larger than Modena... (source: Wikipedia)

Level 37

Sep 15, 2019

Brest is in Belarus in the map its in poland

Level 37

Sep 15, 2019

No Tyumen

Level 68

Mar 13, 2020

157/250. I know 35-40 more but couldn't remember, even with map

Level 40

Apr 7, 2020

why aren't the big cities of the Canaray Islands ( Las Palmas & Santa Cruz de Tenerife) on this map....

Level 68

Apr 21, 2020

I'm guessing it's becuase they are geographically part of Africa, even though they are culturally European. Same with Russian cities in Siberia, which are culturally European but geographically in Asia, so they don't count.

Level 72

Sep 11, 2020

I started writing St Etienne, but got some other city. Don't know which one.

Level 62

Sep 11, 2020

That would be Szczecin, it picks up the alternate spelling Stettin

Level 61

Sep 23, 2020

Really thanks for letting me know I can't be arsed and still haven't learned how to spell Szczecin - Stettin seems way more easy to remember.

Level 81

Sep 29, 2020

This was at the top of the nominated list. Now it has disappeared without being featured???

Level 62

Oct 2, 2020

Quizmaster contacted me about it. I have an updated dataset that I use for other quizzes, but I haven't gotten around to updating this quiz, since the map takes a lot of work. Once it's updated, quizmaster will feature it

Level 76

Oct 6, 2020

Nice quiz, Coventry doesn't get green though.

Level 62

Oct 7, 2020

Should be fixed now

Level 56

Oct 6, 2020

Can you accept "Den Haag" for The Hague?

Level 82

Oct 8, 2020

Cool quiz! Got 240/246. Fun fact : Béthune is a 25k city with a 350k urban area.

Level 62

Oct 9, 2020

That area of northern France is a bit weird. There are a ton of small towns dotted around, but none of them forms a clear urban center

Level 81

Oct 10, 2020

Don't understand some of these. Massa has only 70k inhabitants. Lots of others have more. To be pedantic - Bournemouth is not a city and has only c190k pop - Plymouth has 230k+ - think you have amalgamated Portsmouth and Southampton, they are separate cities. I do like the quiz but needs a bit more accuracy.

Level 62

Oct 11, 2020

This quiz considers urban areas. If you count people by city limits, you get a very unbalanced view, since city limits in western Europe tend to be small, as they don't include suburbs and adjacent cities. In eastern Europe, these are typically included in city limits, so cities limits tend to be much bigger even though there aren't more people living in the area. Counting by urban area fixes this problem, since it counts where people actually live close together

Massa is the largest city in an urban area stretching from Viareggio to Sarzana, which is why it's here

Level 62

Oct 13, 2020

Could you grey out the non-European countries?

Level 82

Oct 14, 2020

I have no idea how I got Bydgoszcz. Not as in, "I have no idea how I remembered it." No, as in, "I have never heard of it and cannot imagine what I typed to get it. Oh well, I'll take what I can get.

Level 44

Jul 13, 2022

Bromberg should be allowed type in

Level 66

Apr 1, 2024

Maybe you thought this quiz was bad, but typed it in the answer box instead of the comments?

Level 84

Oct 17, 2020

The Balearic Islands are missing from this map.

Level 49

Oct 20, 2020

No Salzburg?? I thought it was the 2nd largest city in Austria. I haven't heard of Linz

Level 81

Nov 10, 2020

I only knew Linz because I had a Couch Surfing host there... I think the night before I got to Salzburg, actually. Seemed like a decent-sized college town.

Level 64

Nov 10, 2020

No, it's the second most famous city of Austria. Graz is bigger as well.

Level 49

Oct 20, 2020

Aren't Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk in Asia??

I think most quizes consider they are.

Level 42

Nov 6, 2020

Hey, very nice quiz! But I don't think that Koblenz is rightfully in there... The city has about 110k inhabitants, the area might have up to 220k, but I can't see 350k there...

Level 69

Nov 12, 2020

Why not actually check before just guessing

Level 42

Nov 20, 2020

Even if you might get the 350k people if you add the city of Koblenz and the Kreis Mayen-Koblenz (which is not (!) completely part of the urban area of Koblenz), you would need to do the same or all other cities in Germany. So why is Mainz missing, which has, when you add the Kreis Mainz a total of 430k? Why is Offenbach missing which would have 480k? etc. etc. It just doesn't make sense

Level 69

Nov 10, 2020

I think there's a minor issue with the dots for Arnhem/Nijmegen and 's Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands. I guessed both, but the one for 's Hertogenbosch stayed red and the one for Arnhem/Nijmegen showed the name of 's Hertogenbosch.

That aside, great quiz! I had just over half this time, would love to do better so I'll revisit for sure. :D

Level 70

Nov 10, 2020

Why is Bielefeld here? Everyone knows it doesn't exist :D

Level 66

Nov 10, 2020

Blackburn's population is 148k max, not 451k.

Bournemouth is 465k max, not 553k.

Northampton is 212k max, not 359k.

Brighton is 475k, that's if you include Hove, not 596k.

Kingston upon Hull is 260k, not 403k.

And they were just the smaller UK towns that didn't seem to ring true.

The above numbers are all from Wiki.

Level 56

Nov 9, 2021

The quiz is urban area not city proper. If you are using urban area and the same source for your data as the quiz maker then you have a point that these are wrong but you are using Wiki and they are using citypopulation.de, eurostat and Wiki so that would account for the discrepancies between your data and theirs. You are only using one of the sources that they are.

Level 79

Nov 10, 2020

Maybe more people know about Northern Ireland than I thought, 88% is definitely higher than I expected

Level 60

Nov 11, 2020

Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg are east of Ural, hence not in Europe

Level 68

Nov 12, 2020

I lost time and nerve triyng to figure out correct spellings and ended out not getting points for cities I knew. But great quiz nonetheless.

Level 27

Nov 12, 2020

Middlesbrough's current population was estimated to be 140,398 in 2016 by the Office of National Statistics - nowhere near your figure

Level 54

Nov 12, 2020

Why are the dots different colors, can you edit the map so they are the Standard color, #ff9900

Level 53

Feb 17, 2021

Red - Filled in already

Blue - National Capital

Black - Everything else

Level 61

Nov 15, 2020

Great quiz. I have a feeling I'm gonna be coming back to this one a lot.

Level 49

Dec 27, 2020

Isnt Yekaterinburg in Asia??? It's are on the other side of the Urals...

Level 50

Dec 31, 2020

ETS2 players should be able to breeze through this

Level 59

Feb 3, 2021

totally agree😁

Level 81

Feb 2, 2021

This "Bethune" should not be where it is.

Level 70

Mar 9, 2021

Love this quiz! I feel more aware of Europe and its cities now

Level 54

Mar 22, 2021

138 from the first try. It is very dificult to spell russian names :)

Level 53

Mar 25, 2021

Heilbronn is on the list but Würzburg isn't. Can't be right, I thought, while looking at Google Maps. The source gives this:

Heilbronn: City Prop=127k; UArea=180k; UAgglo=333k

Würzburg: City Prop=124k; UArea=164k; UAgglo=196k

Turns out, I was wrong.

Level 45

Apr 20, 2021

After alot of tries, I got all of them. And in 5:48

Level 58

Apr 30, 2021

Its Gdańsk, not Gdánsk.

Level 62

Aug 25, 2022

I was staring at this comment for a solid minute before I figured out the difference

Level 72

Jul 12, 2021

Great quiz but I'm not sure what definition of Europe you're using as some of the cities (Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk...) are east of the Urals

Level 86

Aug 11, 2021

Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhya, and Zaporozhye should all be accepted for Zaporizhia.

Level 62

Aug 25, 2022

“Bad quiz” is a type-in for Bydgoszcz

Level 61

Jun 29, 2023

And “Edinbobsleigh” is a type in for Edinburgh

Level 64

Sep 10, 2022

When I hover my mouse over the red dots after the quiz, the name doesn't appear

Level 47

Dec 20, 2022

Got 242 and I am 34

Level 29

Jan 27, 2023

I got 166 out of 246, not too bad for a 12 turning 13 year old American. The least guessed ones I got were all random Russian cities for some reason lol

Level 58

Feb 12, 2023

it is not Gdánsk it is Gdańsk

Level 67

May 24, 2023

I got every city in Belarus yet forgot Birmingham...

Level 56

Nov 3, 2023

Why are there 246 answers and not 250?

Level 88

Mar 2, 2024

Any chance you’ll add more time? Typed almost nonstop and still got only ~190

Level 62

Apr 7, 2024

Valenciennes in France 💀

Level 65

May 4, 2024

There is no way Massa can figure in this list. It is a medium size in Tuscany with barely 70k inhabitants. There is no way a larger metropolitan area can be attributed to Massa, its province itself is under 200k. Either a mistake, or it is preposterous.

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