| Rank | City | Country | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Moscow | Russia | 20,215,638 inhab. |
| 29 | London | United Kingdom | 14,372,596 inhab. |
| 37 | Paris | France | 13,171,056 inhab. |
| 50 | Rhine-Ruhr | Germany | 10,642,890 inhab. |
| 62 | Randstad | Netherlands | 8,366,078 inhab. |
| 66 | Milan (Milano) | Italy | 8,247,125 inhab. |
| 81 | Madrid | Spain | 6,980,646 inhab. |
| 88 | Saint Petersburg | Russia | 6,290,174 inhab. |
| 104 | Barcelona | Spain | 5,355,127 inhab. |
| 125 | Kiev | Ukraine | 4,660,231 inhab. |
| 127 | Berlin | Germany | 4,469,439 inhab. |
| 128 | Naples (Napoli) | Italy | 4,434,136 inhab. |
| 133 | Rome (Roma) | Italy | 4,340,474 inhab. |
| 159 | Øresund | Denmark | 3,894,365 inhab. |
| 162 | Frankfurt | Germany | 3,794,360 inhab. |
| 165 | Athens (Athína - Αθήνα) | Greece | 3,742,235 inhab. |
| 166 | Birmingham (West Midlands) | United Kingdom | 3,689,233 inhab. |
| 184 | Warsaw | Poland | 3,386,904 inhab. |
| 192 | Budapest | Hungary | 3,303,786 inhab. |
| 200 | Hamburg | Germany | 3,173,871 inhab. |
| 205 | Stuttgart | Germany | 2,996,440 inhab. |
| 208 | Brussels (Bruxelles - Brussel) | Belgium | 2,967,513 inhab. |
| 213 | Copenhague | Denmark | 2,931,445 inhab. |
| 216 | Munich | Germany | 2,879,107 inhab. |
| 221 | Lisbon | Portugal | 2,812,678 inhab. |
| 225 | Manchester | United Kingdom | 2,782,141 inhab. |
| 229 | Katowice | Poland | 2,733,616 inhab. |
| 230 | Samara-Tolyatti | Russia | 2,732,321 inhab. |
| 231 | Vienna | Austria | 2,717,459 inhab. |
| 233 | Minsk | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 2,645,500 inhab. |
| 259 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 2,480,394 inhab. |
| 270 | Stockholm | Sweden | 2,395,679 inhab. |
| 271 | Bucharest | Romania | 2,395,515 inhab. |
| 272 | Rotterdam–The Hague | Netherlands | 2,392,289 inhab. |
| 278 | Lyon | France | 2,308,818 inhab. |
| 280 | Leeds (West Yorkshire) | United Kingdom | 2,299,673 inhab. |
| 282 | Turin (Torino) | Italy | 2,282,197 inhab. |
| 292 | Rostov-on-Don | Russia | 2,212,875 inhab. |
| 293 | Yekaterinburg | Russia | 2,211,425 inhab. |
| 298 | Brabant | Netherlands | 2,145,390 inhab. |
| 305 | Novosibirsk | Russia | 2,093,266 inhab. |
| 307 | Nizhny Novgorod | Russia | 2,086,972 inhab. |
| 315 | Prague | Czechia | 2,002,930 inhab. |
| 330 | Dublin | Ireland | 1,907,332 inhab. |
| 333 | Marseille - Aix-en-Provence | France | 1,888,788 inhab. |
| 337 | Glasgow | United Kingdom | 1,861,315 inhab. |
| 345 | Belgrade | Serbia | 1,801,377 inhab. |
| 346 | Liverpool | United Kingdom | 1,784,475 inhab. |
| 357 | Kharkiv (Kharkov) | Ukraine | 1,732,432 inhab. |
| 358 | Valencia | Spain | 1,723,935 inhab. |
| 359 | Porto | Portugal | 1,723,618 inhab. |
| 369 | Sofia | Bulgaria | 1,681,592 inhab. |
| 370 | Kazan | Russia | 1,680,834 inhab. |
| 376 | Newcastle upon Tyne (North East) | United Kingdom | 1,650,900 inhab. |
| 381 | Donetsk | Ukraine | 1,623,194 inhab. |
| 386 | Nottingham - Derby (East Midlands) | United Kingdom | 1,614,379 inhab. |
| 388 | Chelyabinsk | Russia | 1,608,652 inhab. |
| 396 | Sheffield (South Yorkshire) | United Kingdom | 1,566,412 inhab. |
| 400 | Florence (Firenze) | Italy | 1,558,434 inhab. |
| 402 | Seville | Spain | 1,543,858 inhab. |
| 406 | Lille (French part) | France | 1,521,660 inhab. |
| 407 | Oslo | Norway | 1,520,934 inhab. |
| 418 | Toulouse | France | 1,490,640 inhab. |
| 419 | Kraków | Poland | 1,489,401 inhab. |
| 429 | Dnipro (Dniepropetrovsk) | Ukraine | 1,460,195 inhab. |
| 431 | Helsinki | Finland | 1,456,619 inhab. |
| 433 | Ufa | Russia | 1,454,053 inhab. |
| 436 | Krasnodar | Russia | 1,441,866 inhab. |
| 441 | Łódź | Poland | 1,428,579 inhab. |
| 444 | Volgograd | Russia | 1,412,494 inhab. |
| 450 | Zürich | Switzerland | 1,401,783 inhab. |
| 451 | Mannheim | Germany | 1,400,533 inhab. |
| 455 | Bordeaux | France | 1,393,764 inhab. |
| 467 | Nuremberg | Germany | 1,340,886 inhab. |
| 472 | Voronezh | Russia | 1,332,382 inhab. |
| 476 | Gdańsk (Tricity - Trójmiasto) | Poland | 1,325,605 inhab. |
| 478 | Krasnoyarsk | Russia | 1,324,915 inhab. |
| 481 | Novokuznetsk | Russia | 1,312,614 inhab. |
| 485 | Perm | Russia | 1,306,876 inhab. |
| 498 | Palerme (Palermo) | Italy | 1,271,406 inhab. |
| 502 | Brescia | Italy | 1,264,105 inhab. |
| 503 | Bari | Italy | 1,263,820 inhab. |
| 506 | Omsk | Russia | 1,261,079 inhab. |
| 512 | Antwerp (Antwerpen - Anvers) | Belgium | 1,245,828 inhab. |
| 516 | Saratov | Russia | 1,234,511 inhab. |
| 520 | Wrocław | Poland | 1,226,667 inhab. |
| 530 | Pyatigorsk | Russia | 1,194,859 inhab. |
| 534 | Poznań | Poland | 1,185,567 inhab. |
| 538 | Sevastopol | Russia | 1,180,263 inhab. |
| 539 | Leipzig-Halle | Germany | 1,178,658 inhab. |
| 543 | Tirana - Durrës | Albania | 1,173,624 inhab. |
| 547 | Portsmouth - Southampton | United Kingdom | 1,167,177 inhab. |
| 552 | Bristol | United Kingdom | 1,157,937 inhab. |
| 553 | Hanover | Germany | 1,157,624 inhab. |
| 562 | Dresden | Germany | 1,143,197 inhab. |
| 564 | Cardiff | United Kingdom | 1,140,165 inhab. |
| 575 | Zagreb | Croatia | 1,117,704 inhab. |
| 577 | Catane (Catania) | Italy | 1,115,535 inhab. |
| 579 | Ostrava | Czechia | 1,111,281 inhab. |
| 584 | Thessaloniki (Salonica - Thessaloníki) | Greece | 1,104,690 inhab. |
| 591 | Irkutsk | Russia | 1,088,310 inhab. |
| 597 | Riga | Latvia | 1,070,201 inhab. |
| 598 | Bilbao | Spain | 1,070,188 inhab. |
| 609 | Göteborg (Gothenburg) | Sweden | 1,051,244 inhab. |
| 620 | Karlsruhe | Germany | 1,033,550 inhab. |
| 622 | Nantes | France | 1,031,953 inhab. |
| 623 | Geneva | Switzerland | 1,028,450 inhab. |
| 624 | Tula | Russia | 1,026,069 inhab. |
| 634 | Odessa | Ukraine | 1,008,852 inhab. |
| 637 | Bologne (Bologna) | Italy | 1,005,831 inhab. |
| 649 | Bremen | Germany | 976,819 inhab. |
| 653 | Izhevsk | Russia | 965,550 inhab. |
| 657 | Naberezhnye Chelny | Russia | 955,750 inhab. |
| 664 | Padoue (Padova) | Italy | 936,887 inhab. |
| 668 | Bielefeld | Germany | 926,761 inhab. |
| 669 | Vérone (Verona) | Italy | 922,383 inhab. |
| 672 | Szczecin | Poland | 917,198 inhab. |
| 676 | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 901,455 inhab. |
| 685 | Basel | Switzerland | 891,978 inhab. |
| 687 | Trévise (Treviso) | Italy | 885,447 inhab. |
| 688 | Chemnitz-Zwickau | Germany | 883,743 inhab. |
| 694 | Alicante - Elche | Spain | 870,972 inhab. |
| 695 | Vicence (Vicenza) | Italy | 867,314 inhab. |
| 696 | Strasbourg (French part) | France | 864,993 inhab. |
| 697 | Barnaul | Russia | 864,370 inhab. |
| 702 | Málaga | Spain | 858,731 inhab. |
| 703 | Venise (Venezia) | Italy | 855,696 inhab. |
| 706 | Gênes (Genova) | Italy | 854,099 inhab. |
| 728 | Braga - Guimarães | Portugal | 827,246 inhab. |
| 729 | Montpellier | France | 823,120 inhab. |
| 733 | Zaporijia (Zaporojié) | Ukraine | 812,472 inhab. |
| 734 | Vladivostok | Russia | 811,525 inhab. |
| 740 | Kryvy Rih | Ukraine | 805,303 inhab. |
| 741 | Brno | Czechia | 803,497 inhab. |
| 743 | Asturias (Oviedo–Gijón–Avilés) | Spain | 801,226 inhab. |
| 746 | Liège (Luik) | Belgium | 794,488 inhab. |
| 749 | Belfast | United Kingdom | 789,817 inhab. |
| 750 | Tyumen | Russia | 788,666 inhab. |
| 754 | Eindhoven | Netherlands | 784,369 inhab. |
| 756 | Chisinau (Chișinău) | Moldova | 779,304 inhab. |
| 758 | Bydgoszcz-Toruń | Poland | 775,927 inhab. |
| 764 | Linz | Austria | 771,695 inhab. |
| 765 | Rennes | France | 771,320 inhab. |
| 767 | Kielce | Poland | 766,911 inhab. |
| 769 | Saarbrücken | Germany | 763,815 inhab. |
| 775 | Zaragoza | Spain | 756,296 inhab. |
| 777 | Malmö | Sweden | 749,427 inhab. |
| 784 | Arnhem–Nijmegen | Netherlands | 736,107 inhab. |
| 785 | Ústí nad Labem | Czechia | 734,303 inhab. |
| 789 | Lviv (Lvov) | Ukraine | 728,350 inhab. |
| 792 | Makhachkala | Russia | 726,654 inhab. |
| 795 | Grenoble | France | 722,904 inhab. |
| 797 | Kaliningrad | Russia | 715,056 inhab. |
| 799 | Bournemouth | United Kingdom | 713,303 inhab. |
| 800 | Lublin | Poland | 711,976 inhab. |
| 801 | Rouen | France | 709,065 inhab. |
| 804 | Ghent (Gent - Gand) | Belgium | 705,949 inhab. |
| 807 | Modène (Modena) | Italy | 701,642 inhab. |
| 819 | Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 688,437 inhab. |
| 822 | Arkhangelsk | Russia | 683,542 inhab. |
| 824 | Leicester | United Kingdom | 681,260 inhab. |
| 826 | Palma | Spain | 678,611 inhab. |
| 830 | Vilnius | Lithuania | 673,921 inhab. |
| 831 | Bielsko-Biała | Poland | 666,146 inhab. |
| 833 | Augsburg | Germany | 661,540 inhab. |
| 834 | Bratislava | Slovakia | 659,597 inhab. |
| 835 | Freiburg im Breisgau | Germany | 658,419 inhab. |
| 837 | Utrecht | Netherlands | 656,342 inhab. |
| 841 | Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) | Germany | 650,960 inhab. |
| 847 | Messine (Messina) | Italy | 640,675 inhab. |
| 852 | Rzeszów | Poland | 635,960 inhab. |
| 853 | Rybnik | Poland | 635,512 inhab. |
| 861 | Ulyanovsk | Russia | 626,540 inhab. |
| 863 | Nice | France | 626,218 inhab. |
| 865 | Murcia | Spain | 624,658 inhab. |
| 870 | Skopje | North Macedonia | 620,913 inhab. |
| 872 | Kramatorsk | Ukraine | 620,299 inhab. |
| 873 | Khabarovsk | Russia | 618,150 inhab. |
| 874 | Opole | Poland | 617,990 inhab. |
| 877 | Radom | Poland | 614,155 inhab. |
| 879 | Graz | Austria | 613,286 inhab. |
| 887 | Yaroslavl | Russia | 608,722 inhab. |
| 898 | Plovdiv | Bulgaria | 592,262 inhab. |
| 902 | Brunswick | Germany | 588,778 inhab. |
| 905 | Tarente (Taranto) | Italy | 586,061 inhab. |
| 910 | Ulan-Ude | Russia | 582,665 inhab. |
| 912 | Tallinn | Estonia | 582,556 inhab. |
| 913 | Toulon | France | 581,948 inhab. |
| 920 | Tomsk | Russia | 569,293 inhab. |
| 922 | Middlesbrough | United Kingdom | 567,986 inhab. |
| 925 | Sterlitamak | Russia | 564,450 inhab. |
| 928 | Orenbourg | Russia | 562,569 inhab. |
| 929 | Granada | Spain | 561,818 inhab. |
| 930 | Cagliari | Italy | 561,289 inhab. |
| 933 | Reggio de Calabre (Reggio di Calabria) | Italy | 555,836 inhab. |
| 935 | Breda-Tilburg | Netherlands | 553,706 inhab. |
| 936 | Kemerovo | Russia | 553,076 inhab. |
| 941 | Kadïvka (Stakhanov) | Ukraine | 550,373 inhab. |
| 947 | Louhansk | Ukraine | 543,269 inhab. |
| 950 | Vigo | Spain | 541,686 inhab. |
| 951 | Ljubljana | Slovenia | 539,672 inhab. |
| 952 | Groningen | Netherlands | 539,486 inhab. |
| 954 | Munster | Germany | 538,508 inhab. |
| 959 | Homiel (Homieĺ/Gomel) | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 535,229 inhab. |
| 961 | Riazan | Russia | 534,762 inhab. |
| 962 | Reggio d'Émilie (Reggio nell'Emilia) | Italy | 532,872 inhab. |
| 963 | Swansea | United Kingdom | 532,489 inhab. |
| 964 | Astrakhan | Russia | 531,719 inhab. |
| 974 | Stavropol | Russia | 524,629 inhab. |
| 975 | Penza | Russia | 523,553 inhab. |
| 976 | Tours | France | 522,597 inhab. |
| 980 | Belgorod | Russia | 519,554 inhab. |
| 982 | Częstochowa | Poland | 517,353 inhab. |
| 987 | Białystok | Poland | 512,004 inhab. |
| 992 | Lipetsk | Russia | 510,020 inhab. |
| 994 | Nancy | France | 508,793 inhab. |
| 995 | Clermont-Ferrand | France | 508,699 inhab. |
| 997 | Sochi | Russia | 507,365 inhab. |
| 1004 | Pristina | Kosovo | 504,165 inhab. |
| 1006 | Kiel | Germany | 503,610 inhab. |
| 1007 | Horlivka | Ukraine | 502,392 inhab. |
| 1009 | Saint-Étienne | France | 500,562 inhab. |
| 1012 | Kirov | Russia | 496,986 inhab. |
| 1014 | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | 495,365 inhab. |
| 1018 | Mykolaïv (Nikolaïev) | Ukraine | 492,775 inhab. |
| 1026 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 482,128 inhab. |
| 1027 | Kassel | Germany | 481,172 inhab. |
| 1028 | Tcheboksary | Russia | 480,741 inhab. |
| 1031 | Caen | France | 480,087 inhab. |
| 1039 | Olomouc | Czechia | 473,451 inhab. |
| 1050 | Iași | Romania | 464,711 inhab. |
| 1051 | Charleroi | Belgium | 464,703 inhab. |
| 1052 | Tarnów | Poland | 463,170 inhab. |
| 1056 | Orléans | France | 456,452 inhab. |
| 1065 | Marioupol | Ukraine | 453,623 inhab. |
| 1067 | Vinnytsia (Vinnitsa) | Ukraine | 452,474 inhab. |
| 1071 | Krementchouk | Ukraine | 450,451 inhab. |
| 1074 | Parme (Parma) | Italy | 447,779 inhab. |
| 1081 | Coimbra | Portugal | 444,014 inhab. |
| 1082 | Koursk | Russia | 443,212 inhab. |
| 1085 | Hradec Králové - Pardubice | Czechia | 441,344 inhab. |
| 1086 | Angers | France | 441,234 inhab. |
| 1095 | Annemasse (French part of Geneva) | France | 433,194 inhab. |
| 1099 | Lausanne | Switzerland | 427,850 inhab. |
| 1100 | Heidelberg | Germany | 427,514 inhab. |
| 1110 | Perpignan | France | 422,786 inhab. |
| 1111 | Valladolid | Spain | 422,672 inhab. |
| 1113 | Bern | Switzerland | 422,129 inhab. |
| 1119 | Constanța | Romania | 419,968 inhab. |
| 1121 | A Coruña | Spain | 419,110 inhab. |
| 1122 | La Spezia | Italy | 418,725 inhab. |
| 1124 | Magnitogorsk | Russia | 418,241 inhab. |
| 1131 | Dijon | France | 414,633 inhab. |
| 1134 | Bergen | Norway | 413,462 inhab. |
| 1139 | Cork | Ireland | 409,216 inhab. |
| 1140 | Mulhouse | France | 408,968 inhab. |
| 1141 | La Valette | Malta | 408,750 inhab. |
| 1142 | Ivanovo | Russia | 408,025 inhab. |
| 1144 | Bryansk | Russia | 405,723 inhab. |
| 1151 | Varna | Bulgaria | 401,232 inhab. |
| 1154 | Brindisi | Italy | 398,661 inhab. |
| 1155 | Tampere | Finland | 398,463 inhab. |
| 1156 | Brașov | Romania | 398,220 inhab. |
| 1157 | Brighton | United Kingdom | 397,834 inhab. |
| 1161 | Ulm | Germany | 396,948 inhab. |
| 1166 | Cannes - Antibes | France | 393,687 inhab. |
| 1178 | Kaunas | Lithuania | 383,764 inhab. |
| 1181 | Plzeň | Czechia | 382,847 inhab. |
| 1185 | Pamplona | Spain | 380,983 inhab. |
| 1186 | Moguilev (Mahilioŭ) | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 380,440 inhab. |
| 1187 | Santander | Spain | 380,200 inhab. |
| 1192 | Cluj-Napoca | Romania | 375,908 inhab. |
| 1194 | Brest | France | 375,744 inhab. |
| 1195 | Metz | France | 375,059 inhab. |
| 1199 | Grodno (Hrodna) | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 373,547 inhab. |
| 1203 | Le Mans | France | 369,998 inhab. |
| 1204 | Vitebsk (Viciebsk) | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 369,933 inhab. |
| 1205 | Košice | Slovakia | 367,712 inhab. |
| 1219 | Córdoba | Spain | 358,887 inhab. |
| 1220 | Timișoara | Romania | 357,513 inhab. |
| 1223 | Reims | France | 355,889 inhab. |
| 1228 | Salzburg | Austria | 353,429 inhab. |
| 1230 | Amiens | France | 353,124 inhab. |
| 1232 | Nicosie | Cyprus | 351,164 inhab. |
| 1234 | Novi Sad | Serbia | 350,930 inhab. |
| 1236 | Brest (formerly Brest-Litovsk) | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 350,616 inhab. |
| 1239 | Nîmes | France | 350,007 inhab. |
| 1241 | Chita | Russia | 349,005 inhab. |
| 1247 | Split | Croatia | 346,314 inhab. |
| 1254 | Avignon | France | 339,324 inhab. |
| 1257 | Livourne-Pise (Livorno-Pisa) | Italy | 338,468 inhab. |
| 1258 | San Sebastián | Spain | 338,267 inhab. |
| 1260 | Valenciennes (French part) | France | 337,269 inhab. |
| 1263 | Stavanger | Norway | 335,934 inhab. |
| 1264 | Rimini | Italy | 335,463 inhab. |
| 1266 | Tarragona | Spain | 335,153 inhab. |
| 1268 | Le Havre | France | 334,482 inhab. |
| 1269 | Rheintal | Switzerland | 334,260 inhab. |
| 1277 | Debrecen | Hungary | 328,642 inhab. |
| 1280 | Craiova | Romania | 326,498 inhab. |
| 1284 | Turku | Finland | 325,340 inhab. |
| 1286 | Arhus | Denmark | 323,893 inhab. |
| 1287 | Galați | Romania | 323,318 inhab. |
| 1288 | Limoges | France | 322,810 inhab. |
| 1292 | Lens - Liévin | France | 321,298 inhab. |
| 1305 | Como - Chiasso | Switzerland | 313,801 inhab. |
| 1306 | Heraklion (Iráklio) | Greece | 313,766 inhab. |
| 1310 | Yakutsk | Russia | 311,760 inhab. |
| 1314 | Marbella | Spain | 310,111 inhab. |
| 1319 | Thionville (French part of Luxembourg) | France | 308,550 inhab. |
| 1333 | Algeciras - Gibraltar | Spain | 299,593 inhab. |
| 1334 | Gibraltar - Algésiras | Gibraltar | 299,593 inhab. |
| 1336 | Patras (Pátra) | Greece | 298,996 inhab. |
| 1338 | Innsbruck | Austria | 298,647 inhab. |
| 1341 | Annecy | France | 298,164 inhab. |
| 1343 | Aveiro | Portugal | 297,854 inhab. |
| 1352 | Murmansk | Russia | 295,374 inhab. |
| 1353 | Ploiești | Romania | 295,314 inhab. |
| 1355 | Kherson | Ukraine | 294,941 inhab. |
| 1358 | Miskolc | Hungary | 294,144 inhab. |
| 1359 | Tchernihiv | Ukraine | 293,969 inhab. |
| 1361 | Poltava | Ukraine | 293,302 inhab. |
| 1374 | Leiria | Portugal | 289,215 inhab. |
| 1376 | Cambridge | United Kingdom | 288,267 inhab. |
| 1387 | Bayonne (French part) | France | 283,664 inhab. |
| 1388 | Tcherkassy | Ukraine | 283,356 inhab. |
| 1389 | Pau | France | 283,346 inhab. |
| 1390 | Besançon | France | 283,127 inhab. |
| 1396 | Poitiers | France | 281,789 inhab. |
| 1398 | Larissa (Lárisa) | Greece | 281,033 inhab. |
| 1403 | Maastricht | Netherlands | 277,721 inhab. |
| 1407 | Trondheim | Norway | 275,845 inhab. |
| 1411 | Vitoria-Gasteiz | Spain | 273,689 inhab. |
| 1414 | Székesfehérvár | Hungary | 272,474 inhab. |
| 1417 | Khmelnytsky | Ukraine | 269,308 inhab. |
| 1420 | Sievierodonetsk - Lyssytchansk | Ukraine | 268,252 inhab. |
| 1425 | Soumy | Ukraine | 267,633 inhab. |
| 1426 | Jytomyr | Ukraine | 267,610 inhab. |
| 1429 | Tchernivtsi | Ukraine | 266,550 inhab. |
| 1437 | Liberec | Czechia | 265,339 inhab. |
| 1438 | Limassol | Cyprus | 265,274 inhab. |
| 1451 | Chambéry | France | 261,463 inhab. |
| 1455 | Burgas | Bulgaria | 259,539 inhab. |
| 1456 | Namur (Namen) | Belgium | 259,022 inhab. |
| 1457 | Dunkerque | France | 258,733 inhab. |
| 1460 | Niš | Serbia | 257,883 inhab. |
| 1463 | Valence | France | 256,245 inhab. |
| 1464 | České Budějovice | Czechia | 255,966 inhab. |
| 1469 | Cádiz | Spain | 255,163 inhab. |
| 1471 | Mons (Bergen) | Belgium | 254,474 inhab. |
| 1472 | Leuven (Louvain) | Belgium | 254,396 inhab. |
| 1475 | Brugge (Bruges) | Belgium | 253,221 inhab. |
| 1479 | Ivano-Frankivsk | Ukraine | 251,529 inhab. |
| 1480 | Pécs | Hungary | 251,412 inhab. |
| 1487 | Hasselt-Genk | Belgium | 248,651 inhab. |
| 1491 | Rivne | Ukraine | 247,572 inhab. |
| 1492 | La Rochelle | France | 247,139 inhab. |
| 1493 | Oulu | Finland | 246,667 inhab. |
| 1494 | Győr | Hungary | 246,159 inhab. |
| 1498 | Rijeka | Croatia | 245,054 inhab. |
| 1504 | Szeged | Hungary | 243,374 inhab. |
| 1515 | Quimper | France | 239,789 inhab. |
| 1517 | Oradea | Romania | 239,243 inhab. |
| 1518 | Kamianske (Dnieprodzerjinsk) | Ukraine | 239,237 inhab. |
| 1524 | Nyíregyháza | Hungary | 238,020 inhab. |
| 1532 | Kortrijk (Courtrai) | Belgium | 235,009 inhab. |
| 1534 | Trieste | Italy | 234,874 inhab. |
| 1537 | Viseu | Portugal | 234,667 inhab. |
| 1539 | Uppsala | Sweden | 234,384 inhab. |
| 1541 | Cartagena | Spain | 233,941 inhab. |
| 1543 | Lucerne | Switzerland | 233,491 inhab. |
| 1546 | Castellón de la Plana | Spain | 231,683 inhab. |
| 1550 | Kropyvnytsky | Ukraine | 231,089 inhab. |
| 1555 | Tiraspol | Transnistria | 229,451 inhab. |
| 1557 | Huelva | Spain | 229,146 inhab. |
| 1558 | Lorient | France | 229,039 inhab. |
| 1564 | Almería | Spain | 226,531 inhab. |
| 1573 | Bacău | Romania | 222,854 inhab. |
| 1575 | Reykjavik | Iceland | 222,484 inhab. |
| 1576 | Troyes | France | 221,782 inhab. |
| 1586 | Jerez de la Frontera | Spain | 219,984 inhab. |
| 1587 | Brăila | Romania | 219,919 inhab. |
| 1594 | Ternopil | Ukraine | 218,134 inhab. |
| 1596 | Babrujsk | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 217,940 inhab. |
| 1599 | Loutsk | Ukraine | 217,502 inhab. |
| 1608 | Pitești | Romania | 215,577 inhab. |
| 1610 | Bila Tserkva | Ukraine | 215,100 inhab. |
| 1614 | Apeldoorn | Netherlands | 213,899 inhab. |
| 1615 | Saint-Nazaire | France | 213,675 inhab. |
| 1623 | León | Spain | 210,805 inhab. |
| 1626 | Sibiu | Romania | 208,778 inhab. |
| 1633 | Vannes | France | 207,414 inhab. |
| 1641 | Klaipėda | Lithuania | 205,944 inhab. |
| 1643 | Aalborg | Denmark | 205,809 inhab. |
| 1647 | Arad | Romania | 204,940 inhab. |
| 1654 | Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) | Czechia | 203,356 inhab. |
| 1656 | Vólos | Greece | 203,162 inhab. |
| 1664 | Lhati | Finland | 201,685 inhab. |
| 1667 | Salamanca | Spain | 201,028 inhab. |
| 1668 | Béziers | France | 200,883 inhab. |
| 1669 | Saint-Brieuc | France | 200,829 inhab. |
| 1671 | Santiago de Compostela | Spain | 200,708 inhab. |
| 1678 | Colmar | France | 199,434 inhab. |
| 1679 | Burgos | Spain | 199,421 inhab. |
| 1683 | Douai | France | 198,241 inhab. |
| 1687 | Podgorica | Montenegro | 197,429 inhab. |
| 1691 | Odense | Denmark | 195,797 inhab. |
| 1703 | Logroño | Spain | 192,903 inhab. |
| 1708 | Albacete | Spain | 191,967 inhab. |
| 1711 | Zlín | Czechia | 191,711 inhab. |
| 1712 | Prizren | Kosovo | 191,565 inhab. |
| 1726 | Kecskemét | Hungary | 187,835 inhab. |
| 1730 | Faro | Portugal | 186,300 inhab. |
| 1732 | Portimão | Portugal | 185,908 inhab. |
| 1736 | Lleida | Spain | 185,050 inhab. |
| 1741 | Jyväskylä | Finland | 183,050 inhab. |
| 1743 | Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 182,848 inhab. |
| 1748 | Baia Mare | Romania | 182,269 inhab. |
| 1750 | Norilsk | Russia | 181,656 inhab. |
| 1756 | Bregenz | Austria | 180,987 inhab. |
| 1758 | Badajoz | Spain | 180,906 inhab. |
| 1761 | Ruse | Bulgaria | 180,442 inhab. |
| 1764 | Barysaw (Barysaŭ) | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 180,100 inhab. |
| 1767 | Angoulême | France | 179,917 inhab. |
| 1771 | Baranavichy (Baranavičy) | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 179,439 inhab. |
| 1774 | Montbéliard | France | 179,231 inhab. |
| 1778 | Niort | France | 178,690 inhab. |
| 1779 | Kragujevac | Serbia | 178,610 inhab. |
| 1786 | Kolín - Kutná Hora | Czechia | 176,974 inhab. |
| 1790 | Girona | Spain | 175,765 inhab. |
| 1794 | Prešov | Slovakia | 175,038 inhab. |
| 1806 | Bourges | France | 173,067 inhab. |
| 1820 | Chartres | France | 170,581 inhab. |
| 1830 | La Roche-sur-Yon | France | 169,377 inhab. |
| 1832 | Nikopol | Ukraine | 169,241 inhab. |
| 1840 | Ioannina (Yannena) | Greece | 167,696 inhab. |
| 1841 | St. Gall | Switzerland | 167,643 inhab. |
| 1852 | Linköping | Sweden | 164,684 inhab. |
| 1856 | Cholet | France | 163,809 inhab. |
| 1861 | Limerick | Ireland | 162,413 inhab. |
| 1868 | Nitra | Slovakia | 161,441 inhab. |
| 1870 | Buzău | Romania | 161,311 inhab. |
| 1871 | Mechelen (Malines) | Belgium | 161,304 inhab. |
| 1872 | Oxford | United Kingdom | 161,291 inhab. |
| 1873 | Kristiansand | Norway | 160,963 inhab. |
| 1875 | Boulogne-sur-Mer | France | 160,130 inhab. |
| 1879 | Arras | France | 159,616 inhab. |
| 1880 | Chaniá | Greece | 159,576 inhab. |
| 1881 | Jaén | Spain | 159,164 inhab. |
| 1886 | Stara Zagora | Bulgaria | 158,262 inhab. |
| 1892 | Žilina | Slovakia | 157,807 inhab. |
| 1902 | Örebro | Sweden | 156,295 inhab. |
| 1906 | Västerås | Sweden | 155,858 inhab. |
| 1909 | Melitopol | Ukraine | 155,595 inhab. |
| 1912 | Narbonne | France | 155,518 inhab. |
| 1915 | Turnhout | Belgium | 155,136 inhab. |
| 1920 | Chalon-sur-Saône | France | 154,499 inhab. |
| 1931 | Sint-Niklaas (Saint-Nicolas) | Belgium | 152,756 inhab. |
| 1932 | Cherbourg-en-Cotentin | France | 152,630 inhab. |
| 1936 | Pleven | Bulgaria | 151,694 inhab. |
| 1946 | Toledo | Spain | 150,252 inhab. |
| 1947 | Lugano | Switzerland | 150,175 inhab. |
| 1949 | Mazyr | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 150,103 inhab. |
| 1953 | Calais | France | 149,673 inhab. |
| 1956 | Helsingborg | Sweden | 149,407 inhab. |
| 1957 | Ferrol | Spain | 148,870 inhab. |
| 1962 | Ourense | Spain | 148,410 inhab. |
| 1963 | Benidorm | Spain | 148,397 inhab. |
| 1964 | Szombathely | Hungary | 147,920 inhab. |
| 1976 | Balti (Bălți) | Moldova | 146,939 inhab. |
| 1983 | Tartu | Estonia | 145,550 inhab. |
| 1987 | Blois | France | 145,143 inhab. |
| 1988 | Laval | France | 145,065 inhab. |
| 1989 | Winterthur | Switzerland | 145,052 inhab. |
| 1992 | Beauvais | France | 144,501 inhab. |
| 1994 | Botoșani | Romania | 144,389 inhab. |
| 1999 | Norrköping | Sweden | 143,599 inhab. |
| 2003 | Veliko Tarnovo | Bulgaria | 142,723 inhab. |
| 2005 | Šiauliai | Lithuania | 142,655 inhab. |
| 2006 | Jönköping | Sweden | 142,630 inhab. |
| 2010 | Montauban | France | 141,847 inhab. |
| 2012 | Compiègne | France | 141,752 inhab. |
| 2013 | Elbasan | Albania | 141,714 inhab. |
| 2014 | Roanne | France | 141,471 inhab. |
| 2017 | Pontevedra | Spain | 141,414 inhab. |
| 2018 | Maubeuge | France | 140,946 inhab. |
| 2024 | Bourg-en-Bresse | France | 140,410 inhab. |
| 2031 | Kuopio | Finland | 139,508 inhab. |
| 2032 | Leskovac | Serbia | 139,291 inhab. |
| 2033 | Subotica | Serbia | 139,011 inhab. |
| 2035 | Mâcon | France | 138,633 inhab. |
| 2037 | Pinsk | Belarus (Byelorussia) | 138,202 inhab. |
| 2038 | Albi | France | 137,824 inhab. |
| 2039 | Tarbes | France | 137,635 inhab. |
| 2040 | Saint-Malo | France | 137,293 inhab. |
| 2046 | Évreux | France | 135,831 inhab. |
| 2050 | Shkodra (Shkodër) | Albania | 135,612 inhab. |
| 2060 | Pori | Finland | 134,462 inhab. |
| 2067 | Pazardzhik | Bulgaria | 133,619 inhab. |
| 2071 | Alès | France | 133,295 inhab. |
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