EUROPE
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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)
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)
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
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