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The largest cities in Europe have official populations of over one million inhabitants within their city boundaries. These rankings are based on populations contained within city administrative boundaries, as opposed to urban areas or metropolitan areas, which necessarily have larger populations than the cities at their core.
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries. Settled by pre-Celtic tribes and later founded and civilized by the Phoenicians, Julius Caesar made it a municipium called Felicitas Julia, adding the term to the name Olissipo.
Its capital and largest city is Andorra la Vella . Andorra is the sixth-smallest state in Europe, with an area of 468 square kilometres (181 sq mi) and a population of approximately 79,034. [15] [16] The Andorran people are a Romance ethnic group closely related to Catalans. [17]
berlin.de. Berlin [a] is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population. [11] Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants [12] make it the European Union 's most populous city, as measured by population within city limits [13] having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, departure from the ...
Tallinn was the 2011 European Capital of Culture, and is the recipient of the 2023 European Green Capital Award. The city has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 and takes pride in its biodiversity and high air quality.
In 2000, it was named European Capital of Culture alongside eight other European cities. In 2013, the city was the site of the Brussels Agreement . [91] In 2014, it hosted the 40th G7 summit , [92] and in 2017, 2018 and 2021 respectively the 28th , 29th and 31st NATO Summits .
Stockholm ( Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː (h)ɔlm] ⓘ) [10] is the capital and most populous city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, [11] with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. [11] The city stretches across fourteen ...
Madrid ( / məˈdrɪd / ⓘ mə-DRID, Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ⓘ) [n. 1] is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million [8] inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second ...