Largest city by country in Europe

by Jakub Marian

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The map below shows the most pop­u­lous cities of Eu­ro­pean coun­tries. The most pop­u­lous city is al­most al­ways the cap­i­tal, with four ex­cep­tions: Bel­gium, Malta, Switzer­land, and Turkey (and, de­pend­ing on the de­f­i­n­i­tion, pos­si­bly also Liecht­en­stein and San Marino, see below).

Largest cities of European countries
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It should be noted that Am­s­ter­dam is the cap­i­tal of the Nether­lands by con­sti­tu­tion, but the par­lia­ment and the gov­ern­ment sit in The Hague. The City of Brus­sels in Bel­gium is lo­cated within the Brus­sels-Cap­i­tal Re­gion, which, in prac­tice, forms a con­tigu­ous city but is of­fi­cially not a sin­gle city.

Tech­ni­cally speak­ing, Liecht­en­stein does not have any cities. Its cap­i­tal is Vaduz, which is a mu­nic­i­pal­ity, but the mu­nic­i­pal­ity of Schaan has a slightly larger pop­u­la­tion (but both mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties are non-con­tigu­ous). The only “city” of San Marino is the City of San Marino, which is the cap­i­tal; how­ever, the largest town is Do­gana.

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