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LARGEST CITIES IN EUROPE IN ORDER OF POPULATION WITHIN THE CITY BORDERS:
Includes names without links to cities I haven't been to yet. *Limited presentation: short visit, few photos.


Istanbul
City population: 13 800 000 (metro 19 000 000)
Not in the EU, partly situated in Asia


London

City population: 7 556 000 (metro 14 000 000)


Berlin
City population: 3 430 000 (metro 6 000 000)


Madrid
City population: 3 256 000 (metro 5 843 000)


Rome

City population: 2 869 000 (metro 4 321 000)

Athens


Paris

City population: 2 203 000 (metro 11 700 000)

Bucharest


Hamburg
City population: 1 769 000 (metro 4 300 000)


Budapest

City population: 1 712 000


Warsaw

City population: 1 706 000


Vienna

City population: 1 697 000


Barcelona

City population: 1 616 000

Sofia

Munich


Milan

City population: 1 294 000


Prague

City population: 1 237 000


Copenhagen

City population: 1 213 000 (municipality 521 000, metro 1 992 000)


Brussels

City population: 1 139 000 (municipality 166 000)


Birmingham

City population: 1 111 000 (metro 3 683 000)

Cologne
Naples
Turin


Stockholm
City population: 924 000 (metro 1 231 000)


Marseille

City population: 853 000 (metro 1 831 000)


Valencia

City population: 809 000 (metro 1 705 000)


Amsterdam
City population: 791 000 (metro 2 290 000)

 


Leeds
City population: 782 000 (metro 2 454 000)


Kraków

City population: 757 000 (metro 1 725 000)


Lodz


Riga
City population: 699 000 (metro 1 018 000)


Sevilla


Frankfurt
City population: 679 000 (metro 5 600 000)

Zaragoza
Palermo
Wroclaw


Rotterdam

City population: 617 000


Oslo
City population: 617 000 (not in the EU)


Genoa

City population: 612 000

Stuttgart
Dortmund
Essen
Glasgow

Helsinki
Düsseldorf
Málaga
Poznan


Vilnius

City population: 543 000


Manchester

City population: 530 000 (metro 2 794 000)

Bremen
Sheffield
Hannover
Leipzig

Dublin
Nuremberg


Gothenburg

City population: 522 000 (metro 1 016 000)

Duisburg


Lisbon

City population: 506 000 (metro 2 800 000)

Bradford


Dresden

City population: 507 000


The Hague
City population: 502 000


Antwerp
City population: 502 000 (metro 1 200 000)

Lyon


Liverpool
City population: 484 000 (metro 2 241 000)

Edinburgh


Gdansk
City population: 461 000 (metro 1 081 000)

Toulouse


Murcia

City population: 461 000 (metro 690 000)


Bratislava

City population: 428 000

Bristol
Szczecin
Palma de Mallorca


Tallinn
City population: 427 000 (542 000)

Bochum
Las Palmas
Plovdid
Bologna
Brno
Florence
Thessaloniki
Varna
Bydgoszcz
Kaunas
Wuppertal
Bilbao
Lublin


Nice

City population: 347 000 (metro 1 005 000)


Alicante

City population: 334 000 (metro 757 000)

Utrecht
City population: 316 000


Malmö

City population: 303 000 (metro 635 000)

Ostrava
Bielefeld
Córdoba
Wakefield
Cardiff
Bari
Valladolid
Katovice
Bonn
Timisoara

OTHER LARGE CITIES:


Lille

City population: 248 000 (metro 1 143 000)


Elche (Elx)

City population: 229 000 (metro 757 000)


Gdynia

City population: 226 000 (metro 1 081 000)


York
City population: 208 000

SMALLER CITIES AND TOWNS:

Odense (DK)
City population: 173 000

Potsdam (D)
City population: 159 000 (Berlin metro)

Bergamo (I)
City population: 117 000

Linköping (S)
City population: 104 000

Norrköping (S)
City population: 97 000

Helsingborg (S)
City population: 91 000

Toledo (E)
City population: 82 000

Lund (S)
City population: 76 000

Antibes (F)
City population: 72 000

Benidorm (E)
City population: 69 000

Sanremo (I)
City population: 57 000

Halmstad (S)
City population: 56 000

Roskilde (DK)
City population: 46 000

Helsingør (DK)
City population: 46 000

Grasse (F)
City population: 44 000

Sopot (PL)
City population: 38 000

Karlskrona (S)
City population: 35 000

Køge (DK)
City population: 35 000

Villajoyosa (E)
City population: 34 000

Monaco (MC)
City/state population: 33 000

Kristianstad (S)
City population: 33 000

Calp (E)
City population: 30 000

Landskrona (S)
City population: 29 000

Menton (F)
City population: 28 000

El Campello (E)
City population: 26 000

Trelleborg (S)
City population: 26 000

Ventimiglia (I)
City population: 25 000

Altea (E)
City population: 24 000

Ängelholm (S)
City population: 23 000

Hässleholm (S)
City population: 18 000

Ystad (S)
City population: 18 000

Eslöv
City population: 16 500

Valbonne (F)
Town population: 11 000

Åhus (S)
Town population: 9 400

Sölvesborg (S)
Town population: 8 400

Skanör-Falsterbo (S)
Town population: 6 700

Simrishamn (S)
City population: 6 500

Båstad (S)
Town population: 4 900

Wacken (D)
Town population: 1 800