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List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits

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Berlin, the most populous city in the European Union

This is a list of the largest cities in the European Union according to the population within their city boundary. The cities listed all have populations over 300,000. The list deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries as opposed to urban areas or larger urban zones (metropolitan areas), which are generally larger in terms of population than the main city (although they can also be smaller).

As some cities have a very narrow boundary and others a very wide one, the list may not give an accurate view of the comparative magnitude of entire urban areas, and thus the figures in the list should be treated with caution. Common examples of confusion are Paris, where the Paris metropolitan area has different boundaries than the city proper, the City of Brussels that is confused with the Brussels-Capital Region, and Portuguese municipalities, where the population of the municipality's core may be significantly lower than the total population within its boundaries.

Cities by population within the city boundary

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Cities in bold are capital cities of their respective countries.

City Member
state 		Official
population 		Date Ref.
Berlin  Germany 3,685,265 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Madrid  Spain 3,506,730 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Rome  Italy 2,746,984 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Paris  France 2,048,472 1 Jan 2025 [4]
Vienna  Austria 2,031,870 1 Jul 2025 [5]
Warsaw  Poland 1,863,845 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Hamburg  Germany 1,862,565 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Barcelona  Spain 1,731,649 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Bucharest  Romania 1,709,458 1 Jan 2025 [7]
Budapest  Hungary 1,685,209 1 Jan 2025 [8]
Munich  Germany 1,505,005 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Prague  Czech Republic 1,397,880 1 Jan 2025 [9]
Milan  Italy 1,366,155 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Sofia  Bulgaria 1,295,931 31 Dec 2024 [10]
Cologne  Germany 1,024,210 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Stockholm  Sweden 995,574 31 Dec 2024 [12]
Amsterdam  Netherlands 938,898 30 Apr 2025 [13]
Naples  Italy 908,082 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Marseille  France 877,215 1 Jan 2022 [14]
Turin  Italy 856,745 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Valencia  Spain 840,792 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Kraków  Poland 809,168 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Zagreb  Croatia 772,122 31 Dec 2023 [15]
Frankfurt  Germany 756,021 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Zaragoza  Spain 693,091 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Seville  Spain 689,423 1 Jan 2024 [2]
Helsinki  Finland 687,441 1 Apr 2025 [16]
Rotterdam  Netherlands 673,697 30 Apr 2025 [13]
Wrocław  Poland 672,882 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Copenhagen  Denmark 667,099 1 Jan 2025 [17]
Łódź  Poland 645,693 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Athens  Greece 643,452 23 Oct 2021 [18]
Palermo  Italy 625,956 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Düsseldorf  Germany 618,717 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Stuttgart  Germany 612,663 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Leipzig  Germany 611,850 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Vilnius  Lithuania 611,176 1 Jul 2025 [19]
Gothenburg  Sweden 608,993 31 Dec 2024 [12]
Dortmund  Germany 602,386 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Málaga  Spain 599,063 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Dublin  Ireland 592,713 3 Apr 2022 [20]
Riga  Latvia 591,882 1 Jan 2025 [21]
Bremen  Germany 586,271 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Lisbon  Portugal 575,739 31 Dec 2024 [22]
Essen  Germany 574,387 30 Jun 2025 [11]
The Hague  Netherlands 568,902 30 Apr 2025 [13]
Antwerp  Belgium 567,928 1 Sep 2025 [23]
Dresden  Germany 564,904 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Genoa  Italy 563,947 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Poznań  Poland 536,151 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Nuremberg  Germany 529,508 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Hanover  Germany 522,131 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Lyon  France 520,774 1 Jan 2022 [14]
Toulouse  France 511,684 1 Jan 2022 [14]
Duisburg  Germany 500,131 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Gdańsk  Poland 488,651 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Bratislava  Slovakia 480,182 1 Jul 2025 [24]
Murcia  Spain 479,405 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Tallinn  Estonia 456,518 1 Jan 2025 [25]
Palma de Mallorca  Spain 434,786 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Brno  Czech Republic 402,739 1 Jan 2025 [9]
Sintra  Portugal 400,947 31 Dec 2024 [22]
Bologna  Italy 390,734 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Szczecin  Poland 386,706 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Las Palmas  Spain 381,868 1 Jan 2024 [2]
Utrecht  Netherlands 377,083 30 Apr 2025 [13]
Aarhus  Denmark 373,388 1 Jan 2025 [17]
Alicante  Spain 366,221 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Malmö  Sweden 365,644 31 Dec 2024 [12]
Florence  Italy 362,353 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Bochum  Germany 358,426 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Wuppertal  Germany 357,900 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Nice  France 353,701 1 Jan 2022 [14]
Bilbao  Spain 351,124 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Bielefeld  Germany 330,825 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Plovdiv  Bulgaria 329,489 31 Dec 2024 [10]
Lublin  Poland 328,305 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Varna  Bulgaria 327,424 31 Dec 2024 [10]
Nantes  France 325,070 1 Jan 2022 [14]
Bydgoszcz  Poland 324,043 1 Jan 2025 [6]
Córdoba  Spain 323,262 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Bonn  Germany 323,245 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Espoo  Finland 322,745 1 Apr 2025 [16]
Thessaloniki  Greece 319,045 23 Oct 2021 [18]
Mannheim  Germany 318,035 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Bari  Italy 315,473 1 Jan 2025 [3]
Vila Nova de Gaia  Portugal 312,984 31 Dec 2024 [22]
Karlsruhe  Germany 309,050 31 Dec 2024 [1]
Münster  Germany 307,979 30 Jun 2025 [11]
Montpellier  France 307,101 1 Jan 2022 [14]
Graz  Austria 305,314 1 Jan 2025 [26]
Kaunas  Lithuania 304,524 1 Jul 2025 [19]
Valladolid  Spain 302,614 1 Jan 2025 [2]
Ljubljana  Slovenia 301,268 1 Jan 2025 [27]
Augsburg  Germany 301,105 31 Dec 2024 [1]

See also

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