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500k+ First-Level Subdivisions of Europe on a Map

Vicky's quiz All First-Level Subdivisions of Europe on a Map is already challenging enough if you remove the lesser populated subdivisions! How many subdivions of Europe with more than half a million inhabitants can you name?

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C = census, E = estimate, P = projection, Ev = evaluation, Cn = calculation
No data for Malta.
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Albania 2023 C
County
Tiranë
 
 
Austria 2025 E
State
Carinthia
Lower Austria
Salzburg
Styria
Tyrol
Upper Austria
Vienna
 
 
Belarus 2023 E
City
Minsk
Region
Brest
Gomel
Grodno
Minsk
Mogilev
Vitebsk
 
 
Belgium 2025 E
Region
Brussels-Capital Region
Flanders
Wallonia
 
 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 E
Division
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republika Srpska
 
 
Bulgaria 2024 E
Province
Plovdiv
Sofia City
 
 
Croatia 2023 E
City
Zagreb
 
 
Czech Republic 2021 C
Region
Central Bohemia
Hradec Králové
Moravia-Silesia
Olomouc
Pardubice
Plzeň
Prague
South Bohemia
South Moravia
Ústí nad Labem
Zlín
 
 
Denmark 2025 E
Region
Capital Region
Central Denmark
North Jutland
Southern Denmark
Zealand
 
 
Estonia 2025 E
County
Harju
 
 
Finland 2024 E
Region
Pirkanmaa
Uusimaa
 
 
France 2022 E
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Brittany
Centre-Val de Loire
Grand Est
Hauts-de-France
Île-de-France
Normandy
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Occitanie
Pays de la Loire
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
 
 
Germany 2024 E
State
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hesse
Lower Saxony
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia
 
 
Greece 2021 C
Administration
Aegean
Attica
Crete
Epirus and Western Macedonia
Macedonia and Thrace
Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian
Thessaly and Central Greece
 
 
Hungary 2022 C
County
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
Budapest
Hajdú-Bihar
Pest
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
 
 
Ireland 2022 C
City
Dublin
 
 
Italy 2025 E
Region
Abruzzo
Apulia
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardy
Marche
Piedmont
Sardinia
Sicily
Trentino-South Tyrol
Tuscany
Umbria
Veneto
Kazakhstan 2023 E
Region
Atyrau
West Kazakhstan
 
 
Kosovo 2024 C
District
Pristina
 
 
Latvia 2025 E
City
Rīga
 
 
Lithuania 2024 E
County
Kaunas
Vilnius
 
 
Moldova 2024 C
Municipality
Chișinău
 
 
Netherlands 2025 E
Province
Drenthe
Friesland
Gelderland
Groningen
Limburg
North Brabant
North Holland
Overijssel
Utrecht
South Holland
 
 
North Macedonia 2021 C
City
Skopje
 
 
Norway 2025 E
County
Akershus
Oslo
Rogaland
Vestland
 
 
Poland 2023 E
Province
Greater Poland
Holy Cross
Kuyavia-Pomerania
Lesser Poland
Łódź
Lower Silesia
Lublin
Lubusz
Masovia
Opole
Podlaskie
Pomerania
Silesia
Subcarpathia
Warmia-Masuria
West Pomerania
 
 
Portugal 2021 C
District
Aveiro
Braga
Lisbon
Porto
Setúbal
 
 
Romania 2024 E
County
Argeș
Bacău
Bihor
Brașov
Cluj
Constanța
Dolj
Iași
Ilfov
Mureș
Prahova
Suceava
Timiș
Municipality
Bucharest
 
 
Ukraine 2022 E
Autonomous Republic
Crimea
City
Sevastopol
Kyiv
Region
Cherkasy
Chernihiv
Chernivtsi
Dnipropetrovsk
Donetsk
Ivano-Frankivsk
Kharkiv
Kherson
Khmelnytskyi
Kiev
Kirovohrad
Luhansk
Lviv
Mykolaiv
Odessa
Poltava
Rivne
Sumy
Ternopil
Vinnytsia
Volyn
Zakarpattia
Zaporizhia
Zhytomyr
Russia 2024 E
City
Moscow
Saint Petersburg
Region
Arkhangelsk
Astrakhan
Belgorod
Bryansk
Ivanovo
Kaliningrad
Kaluga
Kirov
Kostroma
Kursk
Leningrad
Lipetsk
Moscow
Murmansk
Nizhny Novgorod
Novgorod
Orenburg
Oryol
Penza
Pskov
Rostov
Ryazan
Samara
Saratov
Smolensk
Tambov
Tula
Tver
Ulyanovsk
Vladimir
Volgograd
Vologda
Voronezh
Yaroslavl
Republic
Adygea
Bashkortostan
Chechnya
Chuvashia
Dagestan
Ingushetia
Kabardino-Balkar
Karelia
Komi
Mari El
Mordovia
North Ossetia-Alania
Tatarstan
Udmurtia
Territory
Krasnodar
Perm
Stavropol
 
 
Serbia 2022 C
City
Belgrade
Province
Vojvodina
 
 
Slovakia 2023 E
Region
Banská Bystrica
Bratislava
Košice
Nitra
Prešov
Trenčín
Trnava
Žilina
 
 
Spain 2024 Ev
Community
Andalusia
Aragon
Asturias
Balearic Islands
Basque
Cantabria
Castile and León
Castilla-La Mancha
Catalonia
Extremadura
Galicia
Madrid
Murcia
Navarre
Valencia
 
 
Sweden 2024 E
County
Skåne
Stockholm
Västra Götaland
 
 
Switzerland 2024 E
Canton
Aargau
Bern
Geneva
St. Gallen
Vaud
Zürich
 
 
Turkey 2022 E
Province
Istanbul
Tekirdağ
 
 
United Kingdom 2021 C
Country
England
Scotland
Wales
Province
Northern Ireland
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6 Comments
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Level 64
Oct 24, 2020
Nice quiz. How do you get the data? Do you calculate the populations of all the subdivisions?
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Level 78
Oct 25, 2020
Thank you. I honestly just look on Wikipedia. For example, the 'States of Germany' article gives a list. Then I can sorted them on their populations and I could quickly see which ones had to be included.
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Level 78
Oct 25, 2020
Let me know if there is a better way!
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Level 64
Oct 25, 2020
Oh, that's smart! I thought you looked at the populations of all the subdivisions manually.
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Level 85
Feb 18, 2022
Please accept normal type ins
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Level 78
May 9, 2024
Normal type ins are now accepted :)