List of urban agglomerations of the European Union

Below is a list of urban agglomerations of the European Union with a population of over 500,000 inhabitants in 2014. The data are provided by the Demographia website and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] . Demographia provides data on urban agglomerations (including conurbations ^[2] ), while the indicators of UN DESA relate exclusively to urban agglomerations ^[3] . For comparison, data on functional urban agglomerations (PHA) according to Eurostat are also presented; however, they relate to more extensive regional agglomerations .

Important notes

This list contains urban, not regional agglomerations . Urban agglomerations are extended built-up areas in which buildings are usually located no further than 200 meters from each other, and do not include rivers , parks , highways , industrial zones, etc. Regional agglomeration includes urban agglomeration and neighboring cities satellites with the surrounding agricultural land. In London , there are sometimes 14 million inhabitants, in Stuttgart - 2.2 million, in Munich - 2 million or more, which means indicating the population size together with the regional agglomerations of these cities. Regional agglomerations, which imply much more complex measurements (such as the proportion of residents of satellite cities working in a regional agglomeration center), can only be accurately determined by statistical services after calculating regional agglomeration parameters, while urban agglomerations can be determined by any institution or man using maps, satellite imagery and other geographic data to draw the outer limits of the continuous development of one or more neighboring cities at. In addition, this list does not separate cities that have several satellites from cities that do not have them at all. In this regard, two cities with the same population of the urban agglomeration will occupy an equal place in this list, even if one of them has a larger center than the second, and many small satellites.
This list contains urban agglomerations, not city-municipalities. For example, the list of conurbations includes the city agglomeration Lille-Kortrijk. Lille and Kortrijk are two separate cities, subject to different states with different culture and language. The list of the largest cities of the European Union by population is presented in another article .
The study of urban agglomerations is important for analyzing the development of cities and determining transport, planning and environmental policies, clarifying administrative boundaries, etc. At the same time, it is necessary to recognize the limitations inherent in the term itself. This is a purely geographical topic, ignoring all other factors of the functional city analysis. Some cities in the European Union, such as Brussels and London, have retained green belt along urban borders that affect the size of the built-up area, but do not limit the city as a center of attraction, since these belts have integrated into the city limits.

Urban agglomerations with a population of over 500,000 inhabitants (2015–2017)

A place	City agglomeration	State	Population (urban agglomeration; Demographia) ^[2]	Population (agglomeration; UN DESA) ^[3]	PHA population (regional agglomerations; Eurostat) ^[1]	Population density (km ² ; demographia)	Annual rate increase (%; Demographia)
one	Paris	France	10,950,000	10,843,285	11,800,000	3,800	0.83
2	London	Great Britain	10,470,000	10,313,307	12,200,000	5,900	0.07
3	Ruhr	Germany	6 670 000	n / a	11 300 000	2 800	0.01
four	Madrid	Spain	6,310,000	6,229,254	6 600 000	4,600	0.27
five	Milan	Italy	5 280 000	3,098,974	n / a	2 800	−0.16
6	Barcelona	Spain	4,790,000	5,258,319	n / a	4,300	0.12
7	Berlin	Germany	4,105,000	6,563,194	n / a	2,900	0.01
eight	Rome	Italy	3,950,000	3,717,956	n / a	3,400	0.89
9	Naples	Italy	3 700 000	2 201 789	n / a	3,600	0.01
ten	Athens	Greece	3 475 000	3,051,899	n / a	5,000	0.29
eleven	Lisbon	Portugal	2 700 000	2,884,297	n / a	2 800	0.39
12	Manchester	Great Britain	2 685 000	2 645 598	n / a	4,200	−0.03
13	Rotterdam - The Hague	Netherlands	2 670 000	n / a	n / a	2 700	0.39
14	Birmingham	Great Britain	2,550,000	2,514,596	n / a	4,200	−0.03
15	Budapest	Hungary	2 500 000	1 713 903	3 100 000	1,900	−0.19
sixteen	Prague	Czech	2 300 000	2 156 809	2 620 000	4,600	−0.07 ^[4]
17	Warsaw	Poland	2 280 000	1 722 310	3,000,000	3,200	0.67
18	Katowice ( Katovitskaya urban agglomeration )	Poland	2 175 000	n / a	2,573,159	3 300	0.11
nineteen	Cologne Bonn	Germany	2 165 000	n / a	n / a	2,300	0.50
20	Brussels	Belgium	2 120 000	2,044,993	n / a	2,600	0.02 ^[4]
21	Bucharest	Romania	2,115,000	1,867,724	n / a	6,500	0.10 ^[4]
22	Hamburg	Germany	2,105,000	1,830,673	n / a	2 700	0.43 ^[4]
23	Munich	Germany	2,025,000	1,437,900	n / a	4,200	0.72 ^[4]
24	Leeds Bradford	Great Britain	1 955 000	1,912,493	n / a	3,900	0.24 ^[4]
25	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	1 950 000	n / a	n / a	3,000	0.50
26	Vein	Austria	1,785,000	1,752,845	n / a	3,900	1.04 ^[4]
27	Amsterdam	Netherlands	1,650,000	1,090,772	n / a	3,200	0.41 ^[4]
28	Lyon	France	1,650,000	1 608 712	n / a	1,300	0.50 ^[4]
29	Marseilles	France	1,620,000	1 605 046	n / a	3,100	0.46 ^[4]
thirty	Valencia	Spain	1,585,000		n / a	5,700	0.29 ^[4]
31	Stockholm	Sweden	1,565,000	1,485,680	n / a	4,300	0.58 ^[4]
32	Turin	Italy	1,530,000	1,764,868	n / a	4,100	−0.16 ^[4]
33	Porto	Portugal	1,485,000	1,299,437	n / a	1,900
34	Stuttgart	Germany	1,395,000		n / a	2,900
35	Sofia	Bulgaria	1 325 000	1 226 155	1 543 377	5,700	0.78 ^[4]
36	Copenhagen	Denmark	1,290,000	1 268 052	1,900,000	2 700	0.04 ^[4]
37	Helsinki	Finland	1,280,000	1,179,916	n / a	2,400	0.81 ^[4]
38	Glasgow	Great Britain	1,235,000	1,222,955	n / a	3 300	0.07 ^[4]
39	Antwerp	Belgium	1,200,000		n / a	1,500	0.05 ^[4]
40	Dublin	Ireland	1,158,000	1,169,371	n / a	2,500	1.14 ^[4]
41	Seville	Spain	1 110 000		n / a	5,600
42	Lille	France Belgium	1,065,000	1 027 178	n / a	2,200	0.50 ^[4]
43	Nice	France	975,000		n / a	1,300	0.52 ^[4]
44	Toulouse	France	965,000		n / a	1,100	0.72 ^[4]
45	Bordeaux	France	960,000		n / a	700	0.60 ^[4]
46	Nantes	France	900,000		n / a	1,100
47	Southern Hampshire	Great Britain	895,000		n / a
48	Liverpool	Great Britain	880,000		n / a	4,400	0.11 ^[4]
49	Bergamo	Italy	860,000		n / a	3 300
50	Gdansk ( Troymasto )	Poland	855,000		n / a	5,000
51	Florence	Italy	835,000		n / a	3,700
52	Thessaloniki	Greece	825,000		n / a	4,300	0.39 ^[4]
53	Newcastle Upon Tyne ( Tyneside )	Great Britain	800,000		n / a	4,200	0.16 ^[4]
54	Bilbao	Spain	780 000		n / a	5,800
55	Nottingham	Great Britain	765,000		n / a	4,200
56	Krakow	Poland	760,000		n / a	3,500
57	Dresden	Germany	740,000		n / a	2,200
58	Zaragoza	Spain	735,000		n / a	5,700
59	Catania	Italy	730,000		n / a	2,900
60	Palermo	Italy	730,000		n / a	6,000	0.12 ^[4]
61	Malaga	Spain	725,000		n / a	3,600
62	Hanover	Germany	715,000		n / a	2,500
63	Sheffield	Great Britain	715,000		n / a	4,000
64	Zagreb	Croatia	705,000		n / a	4,400
65	Lodz	Poland	690,000		n / a	5,000	−0.67 ^[4]
66	Utrecht	Netherlands	690,000		n / a	3,900
67	Las palmas	Spain	675,000		n / a	6,800
68	Nuremberg	Germany	675,000		n / a	3,000
69	Bristol	Great Britain	660,000		n / a	3,900
70	Bremen	Germany	635,000		n / a	2,400
71	Wroclaw	Poland	620,000		n / a	4,800
72	Genoa	Italy	615,000	1 500 000	n / a	7 900
73	Belfast	Great Britain	615,000		n / a	3,500
74	Padua	Italy	610,000		n / a	3,200
75	Leipzig	Germany	605,000		n / a	2,000
76	Riga	Latvia	605,000		n / a	2,900
77	Gothenburg	Sweden	590,000		n / a	2 700
78	Toulon	France	585,000		n / a	700
79	Mannheim	Germany	565,000		n / a	3,500
80	Liege	Belgium	560,000		n / a	1,900
81	Palma de Mallorca	Spain	550,000
82	Vilnius	Lithuania	550,000	649,000	n / a	2,500
83	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Spain	545,000
84	Aachen	Germany	545,000		n / a	1,500
85	Leicester	Great Britain	545,000		n / a
86	Poznan	Poland	535,000		n / a	2 700
87	Bologna	Italy	530,000		n / a	3,400
88	Murcia	Spain	515,000
89	Grenoble	France	515,000		n / a	985
90	Saarbrucken	Germany	510,000		n / a	2,200
91	Douai - Lance	France	510,000		n / a	1,100
92	Edinburgh	Great Britain	500,000

The 20 largest urban agglomerations in terms of population

Paris (1)

London (2)

Ruhr (3)

Madrid (4)

Milan (5)

Barcelona (6)

Berlin (7)

Rome (8)

Naples (9)

Athens (10)

Lisbon (11)

Manchester (12)

Rotterdam - The Hague (13)

Birmingham (14)

Budapest (15)

Prague (16)

Warsaw (17)

Katowice (18)

Cologne Bonn (19)

Brussels (20)

The location of the 20 largest urban agglomerations of the European Union in terms of population

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Eurostat: Statistics on European cities . Retrieved September 19, 2016.
↑ ¹ ² ³ Demographia: World Urban Areas . Retrieved 12 July 2017.
² ¹ ² ³ Annual Population of Urban Agglomerations with 300,000 Inhabitants or More in 2014, by Country, 1950–2030 (thousands), World Urbanization Prospects, the 2014 revision Archival copy of February 18, 2015 at the Wayback Machine , Population Division, Economic and Social Department UN social issues . Retrieved 6 September 2015. The list is based on forecasts for 2015 based on 2014 data.
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Links

United States list of urban agglomerations in the European Union (as tabulated by INSEE).
e-Geopolis : research group, university of Paris-Diderot, France - About world urbanization

[Eurostat-1] ¹ ² Eurostat: Statistics on European cities . Retrieved September 19, 2016.

[Demographia-2] ¹ ² ³ Demographia: World Urban Areas . Retrieved 12 July 2017.

[UN-3] ² ¹ ² ³ Annual Population of Urban Agglomerations with 300,000 Inhabitants or More in 2014, by Country, 1950–2030 (thousands), World Urbanization Prospects, the 2014 revision Archival copy of February 18, 2015 at the Wayback Machine , Population Division, Economic and Social Department UN social issues . Retrieved 6 September 2015. The list is based on forecasts for 2015 based on 2014 data.

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