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metropolitan area A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually ...
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by their population according to three different sources; it includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.


Sources

List includes metropolitan areas according only studies of
ESPON Interreg is a series of programmes to stimulate cooperation between regions in and out of the European Union (EU), funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The first Interreg started in 1989. Interreg IV covered the period 2007–2013. I ...
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Eurostat Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg, Luxembourg, Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide stati ...
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OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate ...
. For this reason some metropolitan areas, like Italian Genoa Metropolitan Area (population is over 1.510.000 as of 2012 according ''"CityRailway" Official Report''), aren't included in this list, with data by other statistic survey institutes. Figures in the first column come from the
ESPON Interreg is a series of programmes to stimulate cooperation between regions in and out of the European Union (EU), funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The first Interreg started in 1989. Interreg IV covered the period 2007–2013. I ...
project, "Study on Urban Functions", which defines cities according to the concept of a functional urban area (core urban area defined morphologically on the basis of population density, plus the surrounding labour pool defined on the basis of commuting). Figures in the second column come from
Eurostat Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg, Luxembourg, Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide stati ...
's Urban Audit and correspond to Larger Urban Zones (LUZ). Figures in the fourth column come from the
OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate ...
Territorial Reviews and correspond to "metropolitan regions". Further information on how the areas are defined can be found in the source documents. These figures should be seen as an interpretation, not as conclusive fact.


Metropolitan areas


Polycentric metropolitan areas in the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...


See also

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List of cities in Europe by population within city limits The largest cities in Europe according to the population within their city boundary have populations over 1 million inhabitants. Cities are sorted by official population. Capital cities are in bold. The list deals exclusively with the areas with ...
* List of urban areas in Europe * List of European city regions * Lists of cities in Europe * List of largest cities in the European Union by population within city limits * List of urban areas in the European Union *
List of European Union cities proper by population density The population, population density, and land area for the cities of the European Union listed below are based on the entire city proper, the defined boundary or border of a city or the city limits of the city. See also *List of cities by popu ...
* List of metropolitan areas by population for the world * World's largest cities


Regional and country-specific lists

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Largest metropolitan areas in the Nordic countries This is a list of urban areas in the Nordic countries by population. The population is measured on a national level, independently by each country's statistical bureau. Statistics Sweden uses the term ''tätort'' (urban settlement), Statistics F ...
* List of metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom *
List of metropolitan areas in Belgium National statistics differ between five Metropolitan areas in Belgium.De Belgische Stadsgewesten 2001< ...
* List of metropolitan areas in France *
List of metropolitan areas in Germany There are eleven metropolitan regions in Germany consisting of the country's most densely populated cities and their catchment areas. They represent Germany's political, commercial and cultural centres. The eleven metropolitan regions in Germany w ...
* List of metropolitan areas in Italy * List of metropolitan areas in Spain *
List of metropolitan areas in Sweden Sweden has three metropolitan areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. The statistics have been retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released on 10 November 2014. The ...
* List of metropolitan areas in Poland


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research group, university of Paris-Diderot, France - Population of urban areas of 10,000 or more {{Urban pop list *Metropolitan areas by population Metropolitan areas Europe, metropolitan areas