Biggest Cities in Europe - Extreme

How many of the 200 most populous urban areas in Europe can you name?

Based on urban agglomeration population according to citypopulation.de, 2020

Some cities straddle Europe and Asia

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Population	Answer
17.4m	Moscow
16.2m	Istanbul
14.8m	London
11.4m	Paris
6.70m	Madrid
6.15m	Milan
5.70m	Ruhr Area
5.65m	Saint Petersburg
5.00m	Cologne / Düsseldorf
4.88m	Barcelona
4.75m	Berlin
4.15m	Naples
3.50m	Rome
3.48m	Kyiv
3.50m	Athens
3.28m	Frankfurt am Main
3.28m	Rotterdam / The Hague
3.15m	Birmingham
3.08m	Manchester
2.88m	Hamburg
2.73m	Brussels
2.63m	Budapest
2.50m	Amsterdam
2.50m	Lisbon
2.40m	Stuttgart
2.35m	Warsaw
2.35m	Upper Silesia
2.28m	Munich
2.23m	Vienna
2.25m	Stockholm
2.20m	Bucharest
2.15m	Leeds
2.05m	Minsk
1.99m	Lyon
1.88m	Liverpool
1.87m	Valencia
1.73m	Nizhny Novgorod
1.69m	Copenhagen
1.69m	Glasgow
1.68m	Marseille
1.66m	Yekaterinburg
1.63m	Kharkiv
1.61m	Turin
1.58m	Mannheim
1.57m	Sheffield
1.55m	Porto
1.49m	Newcastle
1.44m	Donetsk
1.46m	Prague
1.45m	Zürich
1.43m	Belgrade
1.40m	Chelyabinsk
1.40m	Volgograd
1.38m	Dnipro
1.40m	Dublin
1.38m	Nottingham
1.32m	Helsinki
1.30m	Rostov-on-Don
1.30m	Samara
1.30m	Sofia
1.30m	Lille
1.30m	Seville
1.26m	Kazan
1.23m	Antwerp
1.20m	Nuremberg
1.21m	Oslo
1.15m	Southampton

Population	Answer
1.15m	Hanover
1.13m	Ufa
1.11m	Odessa
1.11m	Perm
1.08m	Saratov
1.10m	Bordeaux
1.06m	Voronezh
1.08m	Toulouse
1.06m	Málaga
1.00m	Florence
1.00m	Bremen
995k	Utrecht
960k	Cardiff
946k	Nice
935k	Bielefeld
935k	Edinburgh
926k	Bristol
915k	Krasnodar
911k	Bilbao
907k	Saarbrücken
904k	Gdańsk
900k	Palermo
872k	Tirana
834k	Dresden
829k	Łódź
819k	Kraków
813k	Aachen / Heerlen
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	Breda / Tilburg
581k	Genoa
581k	Toulon
572k	Vilnius
565k	Orenburg
560k	Arnhem / Nijmegen
558k	Ryazan
556k	Lipetsk

Population	Answer
553k	Bournemouth
553k	Skopje
552k	Eindhoven
542k	Strasbourg
539k	Grenoble
537k	Gomel
534k	Astrakhan
534k	Naberezhnye Chelny
528k	Montpellier
528k	Stavropol
524k	Granada
520k	Ostrava
518k	Douai / Lens
516k	Karlsruhe
515k	Augsburg
511k	Middlesbrough
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
449k	Chemnitz
446k	Grozny
446k	Metz
442k	Stoke-on-Trent
441k	Saint Étienne
440k	Mariupol
439k	Sochi
438k	Brunswick
436k	Ivanovo
438k	Plovdiv
435k	Szczecin
433k	Venice
432k	Cagliari
431k	Lausanne
427k	Charleroi
426k	San Sebastian
423k	Bern
423k	Brno
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	Taranto

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Level 62

Apr 4, 2020

Methodology:

If urban agglomeration data is available that data was used

If only urban area data is available, nearby smaller urban areas were added to the total. Areas up to 20km from the center are considered if there is built-up area between them.

If only city proper data is available, any adjacent or connected communes were added to the total

Level 83

Oct 14, 2017

Some populations are really pulled out of nowhere. Ljubljana number is actually the whole Central Slovenia statistical region, the city has 280,000, we could a few other places to reach a bit over 300,000.

Level 83

Oct 14, 2017

Why do I always forget about Sheffield?

Level 82

Oct 19, 2017

just started naming football clubs when I ran out of obvious ones I knew.

Level 72

Aug 22, 2019

That was my strategy too, but I could only think of 3, 2 of which I had allready named haha. And the third I tried for fun, no idea it was actually a city.. so I learned that now..

Level 84

Nov 21, 2017

Or you could spell it Dnipropetrovsk, since Dnipropretovsk doesn't exist.

Level 81

Nov 21, 2017

Got everything down to Samara... Seville's the biggest one I missed. Must have missed Riga on a typo because I'm sure I typed it in... that was the most obvious one I missed.

Level 53

Jun 29, 2020

Seville is a beautiful city, I've been there!

Level 81

Feb 13, 2022

I believe you and regret that I have not.

Level 69

Nov 21, 2017

Got 43%... Knew enough for at least 66%... So disappointed in myself

Level 37

Nov 21, 2017

MISTAKE: Oslo has not a population of 1.6 million. The population is 634 293 pr 2014

Level 59

Jul 28, 2020

MISTAKE: This quiz is about urban areas, not cities proper.

Level 66

Nov 21, 2017

Bournemouth isn't city.

Level 51

Jan 5, 2021

actually Bournemouth is considered a city, theres actually a city munincipality for it in the wnglish muninciplaities and the city even has its own soccer (football) team

Level 70

Nov 21, 2017

Please accept 'Den Haag' for The Hague.

Level ∞

Nov 21, 2017

Okay

Level 70

Nov 21, 2017

Please correct Gdánsk to Gdańsk.

Level 27

Nov 21, 2017

How. Did. I. Forget. LONDON!!

Level 91

Nov 23, 2017

I forgot Brussels.

Level 66

Nov 21, 2017

Gdansk with 900 000 people?!

Level 83

Nov 22, 2017

Occasionally they count the whole region/province ...

Level 62

Nov 25, 2017

It's the urban area, which consists of Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia as well as a few smaller towns.

Level 62

Apr 21, 2020

Yes it is called trojmiasto (three cities).

Level 66

Nov 21, 2017

London is more populous than Istanbul

Level 60

Feb 22, 2018

If you believe that then you might as well believe Mary Poppins saying "Anything can happen if you let it".

Level 89

Apr 22, 2018

Not only is London smaller than Istanbul total, London is smaller than the European side of Istanbul. London is 8.5m. Istanbul total is 15.0m. Istanbul's population is split about 1/3 in Asia and 2/3 in Europe, putting it's European population at about 10m.

Level 69

Nov 21, 2017

Great quiz. There are always going to be disputes as to what is included with what, but I really enjoyed this one.

Level 69

Nov 22, 2017

Breda / Tilburg is not one metropole..

Level 65

Nov 22, 2017

I'd suggest you may accept "Clermont" for "Clermont-Ferrand". That's how the city in Auvergne is widely known and called, at least in France.

Level 41

Nov 28, 2017

Level 71

Nov 23, 2017

I missed cities like Belfast, Seville, Antwerp and Sheffield but got places like Naberezhnye, Stavropol, Kirov and Ulyansk.

My knowledge of russian cities finally coming into play.

Level 63

Jan 10, 2018

Considering that Istanbul is included in this quiz Ankara, which has a decent population greater than some other cities in the quiz, should be incorporated into it.

Level 62

Jan 13, 2018

Unlike Istanbul, Ankara is not in Europe though. Istanbul lies on the border of Europe and Asia, therefore it's included here.

Level 95

Feb 9, 2018

So I was trying to figure out why I couldn't get "Stettin", or any of its various spellings to work. It turns out that when I typed in "st etien" to start St. Etienne the quiz accepted it as Stettin already - but not as St Etienne. Which is pretty weird. I get that Szczecin is pretty weird to spell but "Stetien" is pretty far off.

Level 83

Feb 11, 2018

See explanation a bit higher up.

Level 87

Apr 22, 2018

I don't see any explanation, it must have been removed. Anyway this is a problem. I thought I had validated St Etienne and had not. I strongly suggest that "Stetien" validates both St Etienne and Szczecin...

Level 60

Jan 3, 2019

I second that.

Level 69

Apr 21, 2020

Me too! I have typed "stetien" and thought it validated Saint Étienne; then, when I typed "szczecin", I wondered how doesn't Szczecin make the list. Turns out - I accidentally got Szczecin, but missed Saint Étienne. Also, I don't understand why "krakov" validates Kharkiv, but not Kraków.

Level 76

Feb 16, 2018

Dnipropetrovsk changed its name to Dnipro in 2016.

Level ∞

Feb 17, 2018

Okay

Level 85

Mar 5, 2018

Athens and Kiev are mixed up. Athens is 3.45 mil, Kiev is 3.38 mil.

Level 83

Apr 22, 2018

Kind of astounded how many British cities are on here. Was surprised by Nottingham; would never even have thought to try Middlesborough.

Level 83

Apr 22, 2018

Russian city's are right up there with Chinese cities when it comes to having forgettable names

Level 80

Aug 17, 2019

cities*

Level 85

Oct 6, 2019

That's only because you don't speak the language or know what the city names mean. For most european countries it isn't that obvious because they don't have many big cities, but their names would be equally difficult to remember when you only see them as letter combinations without their meaning.

Level 64

Apr 23, 2018

stop resetting quizes, I'll never get to lvl 56

Level 62

Apr 24, 2018

I'm sorry, citypopulation and eurostat updated their datasets, so I updated my quiz with it.

Level 83

Apr 25, 2018

I suggest you go into your profile and look at the list of "All Untaken" quizzes. You'll have no problem... :-)

Level 72

Aug 22, 2019

looking at it won't change your level ;)

Level 83

Apr 13, 2020

No, but that list expands your view of where a person can earn more points, if that's your goal. :-)

Level 89

Apr 21, 2020

Hey, you're at level 59 now! Way to persevere.

Level 70

Jun 23, 2018

Hard !

Level 83

Aug 3, 2018

It's really messed up, everyone knows that Graz is the 2nd largest city in Austria, so I didn't try the others when it didn't work ...

Level 62

Aug 3, 2018

Graz is only bigger by city proper population. By urban area Linz is bigger. Btw, Graz only barely missed this quiz at 416k.

Level 79

Aug 24, 2018

I managed to miss seven that I've visited!

Level 76

Jan 8, 2019

Yekaterinburg is is Asia. An Asia-Europe border marker near the city is 17 km to its west at this location.

Level 72

Aug 22, 2019

Wow average is high, I thought I didnt do too bad with 74, but average is 96 ! Though cities isnt my greatest subject, I started out pretty well. And since it is europe, and doesnt need to be a capital I thought I wasnt too below average. Admitedly the last 10 minutes I didnt have much to do, I might have found 10 more. But it was mostly a blank stare...

The highest I missed was Naples and Zurich. The lowest guessed I did have was Groningen and the lowest inhabitants I guessed was Swansea ( Started thinking about football (or whatever sport they are from) but didnt help me much haha, could only think of swansea, manchester and milan hahaha) You can tell I am not a sportsperson..

Level 26

Jan 28, 2021

I got 148

Level 71

Sep 2, 2019

Valletta's population is in no way 418k - that's the population of the whole country (Malta)!

Level 81

Apr 21, 2020

Which is so small that it constitutes a single urban area.

Level 71

Jan 14, 2020

I am going to say so too: it is interesting to see if one can come up with 200 candidate cities, but clearly a very strange definition of what constitutes a city has been used. I have lived in both Breda and Tilburg and worked in between in Rijen and there is absolutely no way that these are contiguous. I think the population of Greater London is about half the figure quoted in this list - so the list seems to count population way beyond the M25 as being Londoners which is contentious to say the least.

Level 76

Apr 5, 2020

Heerlen/Aachen even! With one city in the Netherlands and the other in Germany. Although, they probably are close enough to count as one urban area. I once lived in Heerlen, for a whole 4 years.

Level 82

Apr 8, 2020

One of those German cities doesn't actually exist, of course

Level 81

Apr 21, 2020

Too bad Nicosia doesn't make the cut-off

Level 50

Apr 21, 2020

Groningen should be here if Enschede is,we are bigger than them tuckers

Level 48

Apr 21, 2020

How can La Valletta have 460k people if this is the total population of Malta?

Level 67

Apr 21, 2020

Cologne/ Düsseldorf is in the Ruhr Area

Level 78

Apr 21, 2020

I wonder why so many people make statements about a region about which they obviously don't know the first thing. Cologne and Düsseldorf (which are two separate cities) are both in the Rhine Area. The Ruhr Area, although nearby, is a different region. It's just like saying that Jersey City is in New York.

Level 62

Feb 7, 2021

It is absolutely NOT!!!

Trust me, I live there - tell anyone Düsseldorf and the Ruhr belong together, and they'll beat the hell out of you...

Level 43

Apr 21, 2020

It's a bit weird to see Arnhem-Nijmegen on this list. It's not really one place, just like Tilburg-Breda and Den Haag-Rotterdam. There is countryside inbetween them, and they are at least 10 kilometers apart. And I'd never guess Arnhem or Nijmegen, since both of them have under 200.000 inhabitants.

In the Netherlands the biggest places are, in order: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht, Eindhoven, Tilburg, Groningen, Almere, Breda, Nijmegen, we do not consider any of those places the same. It's like saying Liverpool and Manchester are the same place, which they obviously aren't.

Level 72

Apr 21, 2020

Sochi appears to be in Asia, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_Asia_transcontinental.png

Level 72

Apr 21, 2020

Excellent but subjective quiz. I live in a small rural village about eight miles from the centre of Southampton. The only way that the city population approaches anything like 1.1million is if I (and everyone who lives between my village and the city proper) is included in the total.

For those who do not know the area the city has a neat boundary created by the M27 motorway - everything inside the boundary is in Southampton, everything else is in the towns of Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Totton et al - all significant settlements in their own right who certainly do not consider themselves as part of Southampton. The real population of Southampton is about 270,000, which equates to the unitary population.

Level 67

Apr 21, 2020

Can you accept Braunschweig for Brunswick?

Level 80

Apr 22, 2020

Yes, please accept Braunschweig for Brunswick.

Level 62

Apr 23, 2020

braunschweig will work now

Level 64

Apr 21, 2020

Second the Braunschweig for Brunswick as it is the correct name of the city. Also not sure how the figure for Blackburn is made up, unless it includes Burnley and/or Preston, both of which were tried, and both of which are bigger on citypopulation.de.

Level 62

Apr 23, 2020

Blackburn urban area includes Burnley. Burnley will now work as a type-in

Level 96

May 12, 2020

Done in 6'19''

Level 96

May 14, 2020

6'16''

Level 81

Aug 28, 2020

you're shrinking?

Level 32

Jun 2, 2020

136... I put so much difficult ones in Ukraine and Russia and I forgot about Switzerland existing and giant cities such as Birmingham and Warsaw. How the hell I'm able to remember Lodz and Gdansk and forget the Big one smh.

If I work It hard I can have like 170 or so but I'm not good enough to do It 100%, I'm pretty sure. I needed like 12-13 tries to get the 100 cities done correctly...

Level 26

Jan 28, 2021

I find Lodz and Gdansk easy and I remember most of the obvious ones but sometimes forget ones like Donetsk, Perm, Kazan, Samara, etc

Level 59

Jun 8, 2020

I got 83 my first try, but looking at the list, I know a lot more than I actually put down. Guess I cant think of all these at once!

Level 64

Oct 24, 2020

Somehow forgot Cologne/Dusseldorf, but only because I thought they counted as Ruhr.

Level 71

Dec 4, 2020

I can't believe I forgot that Belgium and the Netherlands exist

Level 26

Jan 28, 2021

There are 198 answers.

Level 43

Feb 12, 2021

Ruhr and Cologne have been filled in

Level 43

Feb 24, 2021

And Sarajevo, and Pristina ?

Level 62

Feb 27, 2021

Sarajevo is just outside the top 200 at 371k, Pristina is much lower

Level 69

May 31, 2021

169 nice

Level 72

Jul 18, 2021

Why are Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg in this when they are east of the Urals?

Level 53

Aug 17, 2021

And I thought I knew my Russian cities.

Level 25

Jun 11, 2022

62 cities only

Level 57

Aug 26, 2022

Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk are in Asia.

Level 46

May 25, 2023

nottingham does not have 1 million people LOL

Level 65

Jun 19, 2023

Zaporizhzhia should be accepted. I think that JetPunk should solve the Zaporizhia/Zaporizhzhia/Zaporozhe spelling.

Level 61

Aug 21, 2023

Yeah please accept more spellings for Zaporizhzhia

Level 55

Jun 6, 2024

Valletta? Whether it is a city proper or municipality, something's very wrong, besides the fact that Malta is sometimes regarded as a single city-state. One way or another, it shouldn't be here.

Level 55

Jul 22, 2024

Managed to get Tarragona, Blackburn, Lens and Avignon but I missed Sofia, Copenhagen and Geneva :/

Level 52

Dec 1, 2024

I don't think it's accurate to include the majority of East Lancashire in Blackburn's statistics

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