This is a list of the largest cities in the European Union by population within city limits which have more than 300,000 inhabitants. It deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries as opposed to urban areas or metropolitan areas, which are generally larger in terms of population than the main city.

As some cities have very narrow city limits and others very wide, the list may not give an accurate picture of the situation. The figures in the list should be treated with caution.

Cities over 300,000 inhabitants

Note: Cities in bold are capital cities of their administrative countries.

Rank	City	Country	Eurostat population (2004)	Official population	Date of census/estimate	References
1	London ||
2	Berlin
3	Madrid
4	Rome
5	Paris
6	Bucharest
7	Hamburg
8	Budapest
9	Warsaw
10	Vienna
11	Barcelona
12	Milan
13	Munich
14	Prague
15	Sofia
16	Brussels			N/A
17	Naples
18	Birmingham
19	Cologne
20	Turin
21	Marseille		N/A
22	Athens
23	Valencia
24	Łódź
25	Stockholm
26	Kraków
27	Amsterdam
28	Riga
29	Leeds
30	Sevilla
31	Palermo
32	Frankfurt
33	Zaragoza
34	Wrocław
35	Genoa
36	Rotterdam
37	Stuttgart
38	Dortmund
39	Essen
40	Glasgow
41	Düsseldorf
42	Poznań
43	Helsinki
44	Vilnius
45	Málaga
46	Bremen
47	Lisbon
48	Sheffield
49	Hannover
50	Copenhagen
51	Leipzig
52	Duisburg		N/A
53	Nuremberg
54	Dresden
55	Bradford
56	Gothenburg
57	Lyon		N/A
58	Dublin
59	The Hague
60	Gdańsk
61	Antwerp
62	Edinburgh
63	Liverpool
64	Toulouse		N/A
65	Manchester
66	Bratislava
67	Szczecin
68	Murcia
69	Bristol
70	Tallinn
71	Bochum
72	Thessaloniki
73	Las Palmas
74	Bologna
75	Palma
76	Kaunas
77	Bydgoszcz
78	Florence
79	Brno
80	Wuppertal
81	Lublin
82	Bilbao
83	Nice		N/A
84	Plovdiv
85	Bari
86	Bielefeld
87	Wakefield		N/A
88	Valladolid
89	Katowice
90	Cardiff
91	Córdoba
92	Varna
93	Bonn
94	Cluj-Napoca
95	Ostrava
96	Alicante
97	Coventry		N/A
98	Iaşi		N/A
99	Aarhus
100	Timişoara
101	Constanţa		N/A
102	Utrecht		N/A

See also

References

1. The European Union is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community. The European Union is composed of 27 independent sovereign countries which are known as member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. (See ).
2. Urban Audit - Total resident population - City level
3. Refers to Greater London, which is composed of 32 independent borough councils
4. http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/KSHPORTAL/ADATOK/HELYSEGNEVTAR/HNK2008.PDF
5. Figure for 2001 (2004 data not available)
6. Refers to Brussels Capital Region
7. http://data.csb.lv/EN/Database/annualstatistics/annualstatistics.asp
8. http://www.ine.es
9. http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/media.php/678/31_Einwohner2007Quartal2.pdf
10. http://www.essen.de/Deutsch/Rathaus/Statistik/Bev%C3%B6lkerungszahlen.pdf
11. http://www.ine.pt/ngt_server/attachfileu.jsp?look_parentBoui=24541487&att_display=n&att_download=y
12. http://www1.nls.niedersachsen.de/statistik/html/mustertabelle.asp
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14. http://www.statistik.nuernberg.de/aktuelles/old/monat200702.pdf
15. http://www.statistics.sk
17. Figure for 1996 (2001 and 2004 figures not available)
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