Number of Metropolitan Areas In Europe With Over 5 Million People

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18 Comments

  1. What is 0.5 supposed to mean? Is this a shared metropolitan area between Poland and the Czech Republic?

  2. tf does it mean ‘0.5’? half of metropolitan area? My first thought it’s “maybe second half is in other country” but no, there’s no big metropolitan area on border of Poland and Czechia.

  3. chronically_slow on

    Which areas did you use for Germany? Most definitions only find 2 metropolitan areas with >4 million (Berlin and Ruhrgebiet)

  4. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about Katowice-Ostrava. If I were to ask anyone from my Polish friends (as a Polish person living in Upper Silesia myself) about metropolitan area in Silesian voivodeship they’ll probably me about either Katowice or GZM. It doesn’t even have it’s own wikipedia page in Polish and when you search it up it mostly shows Katowice or Ostrava seperately, the only thing I can find in both Polish and English relating to this is USCB which isn’t a metropolitan area.

    Maybe I’m missing something but I’m not sure if it’s a widely recognised metropolitan area in Poland lol (not to mention the fact that it’d be a weird metropolitan area to begin with, with mostly villages between the main two cities).

  5. Just googled it; Germany has no cities with over 5 million people; Berlin has 3.7 and is considered the biggest in the EU. But perhaps this takes the surrounding areas into consideration as well.