Most Populous Cities In Europe

This is a list of the most heavily populated cities in Europe, as opposed to the most populous metropolitan or urban areas. This list includes 2010 population estimates for all of those who are defined as living within the ‘city limits’, or ‘city boundary’, and are based on a mixture of official and independent sources.

	City	Country	2010 Estimate [1]
1	Istanbul	Turkey	12,175,592
2	Moscow	Russia	10,509,592
3	London	United Kingdom	7,744,942
4	Saint Petersburg	Russia	4,502,991
5	Berlin	Germany	3,448,584
6	Madrid	Spain	3,137,083
7	Kiev	Ukraine	2,740,312
8	Rome	Italy	2,473,972
9	Paris	France	2,187,534
10	Bucharest	Romania	1,918,256
11	Hamburg	Germany	1,774,688
12	Minsk	Belarus	1,763,899
13	Warsaw	Poland	1,709,578
14	Vienna	Austria	1,704,864
15	Barcelona	Spain	1,653,416
16	Budapest	Hungary	1,645,091
17	Kharkiv	Ukraine	1,459,908
18	Munich	Germany	1,342,339
19	Milan	Italy	1,326,571
20	Stockholm	Sweden	1,279,658
21	Nizhniy Novgorod	Russia	1,256,488
22	Prague	Czech Republic	1,185,340
23	Sofia	Bulgaria	1,123,404
24	Kazan	Russia	1,120,320
25	Samara	Russia	1,113,902
26	Belgrade	Serbia	1,099,352
27	Copenhagen	Denmark	1,080,638
28	Dublin	Ireland	1,069,861
29	Brussels	Belgium	1,059,483
30	Rostov-na-Donu	Russia	1,044,852
31	Dnipropetrovs’k	Ukraine	1,044,770
32	Ufa	Russia	1,017,866
33	Cologne	Germany	996,084
34	Odesa	Ukraine	988,612
35	Donetsk	Ukraine	987,453
36	Perm	Russia	983,726
37	Volgograd	Russia	975,150
38	Naples	Italy	952,980
39	Birmingham	United Kingdom	942,766
40	Valencia	Spain	921,882
41	Oslo	Norway	900,017
42	Turin	Italy	859,605
43	Voronezh	Russia	843,348
44	Saratov	Russia	829,618
45	Zaporizhzhya	Ukraine	784,572
46	Marseille	France	779,679
47	Amsterdam	Netherlands	760,949
48	Krakow	Poland	754,804
49	Athens	Greece	752,971
50	Lodz	Poland	737,746
51	L’viv	Ukraine	735,337
52	Kryvyy Rih	Ukraine	730,739
53	Tolyatti	Russia	708,979
54	Sevilla	Spain	706,914
55	Zagreb	Croatia	706,353
56	Riga	Latvia	706,036
57	Krasnodar	Russia	702,427
58	Frankfurt	Germany	670,816
59	Zaragoza	Spain	662,612
60	Palermo	Italy	644,175
61	Wrocław	Poland	629,931
62	Izhevsk	Russia	608,540
63	Stuttgart	Germany	603,194
64	Ulyanovsk	Russia	601,410
65	Yaroslavl	Russia	595,077
66	Dusseldorf	Germany	587,498
67	Rotterdam	Netherlands	586,311
68	Dortmund	Germany	582,354
69	Genoa	Italy	581,777
70	Glasgow	United Kingdom	578,776
71	Essen	Germany	577,722
72	Helsinki	Finland	575,570
73	Chisinau	Moldova	574,109
74	Malaga	Spain	573,969
75	Tirana	Albania	570,837
76	Poznan	Poland	555,080
77	Bremen	Germany	547,247
78	Vilnius	Lithuania	542,947
79	Gothenburg	Sweden	522,372
80	Hanover	Germany	521,118
81	Orenburg	Russia	520,689
82	Leipzig	Germany	520,606
83	Dresden	Germany	517,133
84	Mykolayiv	Ukraine	507,190
85	Ryazan	Russia	505,830
86	Nuremberg	Germany	504,461
87	Penza	Russia	502,419
88	Naberezhnyye Chelny	Russia	502,376
89	Lipetsk	Russia	501,463
90	Astrakhan	Russia	494,188
91	Duisburg	Germany	491,772
92	Gomel	Belarus	491,486
93	The Hague	Netherlands	490,844
94	Tula	Russia	490,261
95	Lyon	France	489,005
96	Skopje	Macedonia	482,626
97	Kirov	Russia	477,722
98	Antwerp	Belgium	475,466
99	Makhachkala	Russia	475,432
100	Mariupol	Ukraine	474,979

References

[1] “World: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population” World Gazetteer – All statistics © Stefan Helders, www.world-gazetteer.com. Stefan Helders has been independently collating data relating to population statistics since 1998 on what is now known as the World Gazetteer website. According to Helders… “If possible, official data sources are used. In many cases however no official figures are available. In that case, secondary sources such as year books, encyclopediae, atlases etc. are used. I have also received data from other stats lovers”. Along with another useful population statistics website called CityPopulation.de, Stefan Helders/World Gazetteer provides the most accurate and up-to-date analysis of population levels in the World’s cities and metropolitan areas.

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