List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP

Map of metropolitan regions by Eurostat in 2021

A metropolitan region's gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of several measures of the size of its economy. Similar to GDP, GMP is defined as the market value of all final goods and services produced within a metropolitan region in a given period of time.

Paris metropolitan region has the largest GDP in the European Union (€758 billion).

2021 ranking of metropolitan regions in the European Union

This list shows metropolitan regions in the European Union by 2021 GDP according to Eurostat. ^[1]

A NUTS 3 region (or a group thereof) is considered to be a metropolitan region, if at least 50% of its residents live inside a functional urban area with a population of 250,000 or more. NUTS 3 regions not meeting this criteria are considered to be non-metropolitan regions. ^[2]

In some of the EU member states, there can exist differently defined areas of various sizes, which may also be called metropolitan regions. For example, the four distinct metropolitan regions of Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, and Rosenheim, as defined by Eurostat, all lie within the area of the Munich Metropolitan Region. ^{[3] [4]}

Rank	Metropolitan region	GDP (mil. €)	Country
1	Paris	757,630	France
2	Madrid	237,540	Spain
3	Dublin	230,366	Ireland
4	Milan	228,436	Italy
5	Berlin	217,928	Germany
6	Munich	213,352	Germany
7	Amsterdam	201,100	Netherlands
8	Brussels	181,549	Belgium
9	Ruhr	180,467	Germany
10	Hamburg	179,525	Germany
11	Barcelona	173,722	Spain
12	Stockholm	171,269	Sweden
13	Rome	163,462	Italy
14	Frankfurt	160,841	Germany
15	Stuttgart	155,726	Germany
16	Copenhagen	155,575	Denmark
17	Vienna	140,330	Austria
18	Marseille	125,382	France
19	Lisbon	123,603	Portugal
20	Cork	115,681	Ireland
21	Cologne	102,257	Germany
22	Warsaw	99,748	Poland
23	Helsinki	98,663	Finland
24	Lyon	97,306	France
25	Düsseldorf	95,646	Germany
26	Rotterdam	95,187	Netherlands
27	Prague	93,517	Czech Republic
28	Gothenburg	88,582	Sweden
29	Lille-Dunkerque-Valenciennes	85,949	France
30	Utrecht	83,278	Netherlands
31	Athens	82,615	Greece
32	Turin	75,854	Italy
33	Budapest	73,690	Hungary
34	Luxembourg	72,361	Luxembourg
35	Nurenberg	69,562	Germany
36	Bucharest	67,623	Romania
37	Malmö	62,349	Sweden
38	Valencia	61,411	Spain
39	Bordeaux	61,279	France
40	Naples	61,059	Italy
41	Hannover	60,296	Germany
42	Toulouse	59,033	France
43	Braunschweig-Salzgitter-Wolfsburg	57,542	Germany
44	Antwerpen	56,876	Belgium
45	Mannheim-Ludwigshafen	56,100	Germany
46	The Hague	56,038	Netherlands
47	Nantes	54,834	France
48	Bremen	53,268	Germany
49	Aarhus	47,206	Denmark
50	Eindhoven	46,445	Netherlands
51	Dresden	46,369	Germany
52	Brescia	45,428	Italy
53	Bonn	45,317	Germany
54	Grenoble	44,826	France
55	Katowice	44,570	Poland
56	Bologna	43,129	Italy
57	Rouen	43,070	France
58	Strasbourg	41,422	France
59	Linz	41,413	Austria
60	Sevilla	40,658	Spain
61	Karlsruhe	39,945	Germany
62	Rennes	39,899	France
63	Nice	39,592	France
64	Bergamo	39,562	Italy
65	Florence	38,838	Italy
66	Montpellier	38,387	France
67	Leipzig	38,033	Germany
68	Alicante-Elche	37,280	Spain
69	Bilbao	35,447	Spain
70	Porto	34,898	Portugal
71	Gent	33,554	Belgium
72	Padua	33,461	Italy
73	Sofia	33,259	Bulgaria
74	Murcia-Cartagena	32,719	Spain
75	Ingolstadt	32,626	Germany
76	Verona	32,499	Italy
77	Breda	32,245	Netherlands
78	Arnhem-Nijmegen	31,871	Netherlands
79	Mainz	31,672	Germany
80	Heidelberg	31,095	Germany
81	Saarbrücken	30,795	Germany
82	Málaga-Marbella	30,776	Spain
83	Graz	30,347	Austria
84	Genoa	29,039	Italy
85	Heilbronn	28,985	Germany
86	Kraków	28,742	Poland
87	Bari	28,702	Italy
88	Poznań	28,603	Poland
89	Freiburg im Breisgau	28,149	Germany
90	Bratislava	28,104	Slovakia
91	Zaragoza	27,897	Spain
92	Augsburg	27,556	Germany
93	Aalborg	27,460	Denmark
94	A Coruña	27,348	Spain
95	Brest	27,233	France
96	Venice	26,470	Italy
97	Liège	26,413	Belgium
98	Enschede	26,173	Netherlands
99	Münster	26,053	Germany
100	Brno	25,938	Czech Republic
101	Annecy-Genève	25,474	France   Switzerland
102	Angers	24,955	France
103	Lefkosia	24,928	Cyprus
104	Zagreb	24,907	Croatia
105	Kiel	24,523	Germany
106	Palermo	24,380	Italy
107	Vilnius	24,362	Lithuania
108	Palma de Mallorca	24,358	Spain
109	Wiesbaden	24,350	Germany
110	Ulm	24,044	Germany
111	San Sebastián	23,839	Spain
112	Gdańsk	23,781	Poland
113	Regensburg	23,629	Germany
114	Darmstadt	23,554	Germany
115	Oviedo-Gijón	23,550	Spain
116	Orléans	23,062	France
117	Riga	22,961	Latvia
118	Mulhouse	22,945	France
119	Aachen	22,907	Germany
120	Clermont-Ferrand	22,892	France
121	Saint-Etienne	22,655	France
122	Cádiz	22,636	Spain
123	Groningen	22,480	Netherlands
124	Pau	22,318	France
125	Würzburg	22,191	Germany
126	Tampere	22,104	Finland
127	Salzburg	22,093	Austria
128	Vigo	21,988	Spain
129	Odense	21,745	Denmark
130	Caen	21,290	France
131	Catania	21,020	Italy
132	Nancy	20,841	France
133	Tilburg	20,814	Netherlands
134	Ostrava	20,781	Czech Republic
135	Osnabrück	20,721	Germany
136	Pamplona	20,519	Spain
137	Reims	20,385	France
138	Reggio Emilia	20,311	Italy
139	Ljubljana	20,256	Slovenia
140	Turku	20,009	Finland
141	Nimes	19,908	France
142	Dijon	19,648	France
143	Tours	19,586	France
144	Uppsala	19,080	Sweden
145	Parma	19,032	Italy
146	Offenburg	18,902	Germany
147	Tallinn	18,861	Estonia
148	Erfurt	18,745	Germany
149	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	18,680	Spain
150	Łódź	18,415	Poland
151	Kassel	18,084	Germany
152	Perugia	17,527	Italy
153	Leiden	17,520	Netherlands
154	Zwolle	17,295	Netherlands
155	Granada	17,141	Spain
156	Magdeburg	17,112	Germany
157	Aschaffenburg	16,613	Germany
158	Wrocław	16,579	Poland
159	Oldenburg	16,576	Germany
160	Las Palmas	16,562	Spain
161	Göttingen	16,559	Germany
162	Amiens	16,460	France
163	Lübeck	16,156	Germany
164	Thessaloniki	16,003	Greece
165	Besançon	15,970	France
166	Koblenz	15,881	Germany
167	Iserlohn	15,775	Germany
168	Le Mans	15,595	France
169	Halle (Saale)	15,509	Germany
170	Bocholt	15,141	Germany
171	Siegen	14,936	Germany
172	Bielefeld	14,847	Germany
173	Rostock	14,788	Germany
174	Innsbruck	14,788	Austria
175	Charleroi	14,734	Belgium
176	Valletta	14,676	Malta
177	Córdoba	14,616	Spain
178	Valladolid	14,294	Spain
179	Santander	14,022	Spain
180	Wuppertal	13,617	Germany
181	Rosenheim	13,073	Germany
182	Vitoria-Gasteiz	12,940	Spain
183	Poitiers	12,849	France
184	Cluj-Napoca	12,471	Romania
185	Reutlingen	12,270	Germany
186	Košice	12,253	Slovakia
187	Perpignan	12,252	France
188	Cagliari	12,059	Italy
189	Pforzheim	12,031	Germany
190	Bydgoszcz-Toruń	11,904	Poland
191	Paderborn	11,897	Germany
192	Kaunas	11,690	Lithuania
193	Schweinfurt	11,663	Germany
194	Plzeň	11,587	Czech Republic
195	Messina	11,585	Italy
196	Taranto	11,491	Italy
197	Limoges	11,268	France
198	Leeuwarden	11,255	Netherlands
199	Timișoara	11,147	Romania
200	Konstanz	11,111	Germany
201	Giessen	10,718	Germany
202	Namur	10,452	Belgium
203	Zwickau	10,231	Germany
204	Bayreuth	10,183	Germany
205	Schwerin	10,128	Germany
206	Flensburg	10,115	Germany
207	Lublin	9,765	Poland
208	Les Abymes	9,731	France
209	Bielsko-Biała	9,725	Poland
210	Bremerhaven	9,419	Germany
211	Mönchengladbach	9,340	Germany
212	Constanța	9,246	Romania
213	Wetzlar	9,086	Germany
214	Fort-de-France	8,988	France
215	Ploiești	8,842	Romania
216	Kaiserslautern	8,817	Germany
217	Kielce	8,775	Poland
218	Düren	8,482	Germany
219	Opole	8,475	Poland
220	Iași	8,394	Romania
221	Coimbra	8,369	Portugal
222	Hildesheim	8,362	Germany
223	Rzeszów	8,284	Poland
224	Prato	8,238	Italy
225	Neubrandenburg	7,936	Germany
226	Brașov	7,903	Romania
227	Görlitz	7,807	Germany
228	Miskolc	7,437	Hungary
229	Szczecin	7,173	Poland
230	Olsztyn	7,162	Poland
231	Székesfehérvár	7,011	Hungary
232	Częstochowa	6,706	Poland
233	Maribor	6,667	Slovenia
234	Białystok	6,452	Poland
235	Radom	6,330	Poland
236	Craiova	5,973	Romania
237	Debrecen	5,936	Hungary
238	Plovdiv	5,298	Bulgaria
239	Split	4,942	Croatia
240	Galați	4,340	Romania
241	Tarnów	4,310	Poland
242	Varna	4,309	Bulgaria
243	Pécs	3,934	Hungary
244	Burgas	3,309	Bulgaria

2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions

This list shows the top 4 metropolitan regions in Germany (German : Metropolregionen) by 2021 GDP according to German government figures. ^[5] Those top four rank 2nd to 5th in Europe.

Rank	Metropolitan region	GDP (mil. €)
1	Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region	536,431
2	Munich Metropolitan Region	361,310
3	Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region	300,868
4	Stuttgart Metropolitan Region	275,060

See also

• Gross metropolitan product
• List of cities by GDP
• List of metropolitan areas in Europe
  • List of metropolitan areas (LUZ) in the European Union
  • List of urban areas in the European Union
• List of sovereign states in Europe by GDP (nominal)
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

References

1. "Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices by metropolitan regions". ec.europa.eu.
2. "Glossary:Metro regions". Eurostat.
3. "Regions and Cities Illustrated". ec.europa.eu. Eurostat. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
4. "Metropolregion München". deutsche-metropolregionen.org. Initiativkreis Europäische Metropolregionen in Deutschland. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
5. https://www.statistikportal.de/de/veroeffentlichungen/bruttoinlandsprodukt-bruttowertschoepfung-0

External links

• City statistics – Urban audit data collection, Eurostat, European Commission (in German, English, and French)
• Eurostat regional European GRP statistics