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	296,082	Spain
3	Dublin	230,366	Ireland
4	Milan	228,436	Italy
5	Berlin	217,928	Germany
6	Munich	213,352	Germany
7	Barcelona	209,639	Spain
8	Amsterdam	201,100	Netherlands
9	Brussels	181,549	Belgium
10	Ruhr	180,467	Germany
11	Hamburg	179,525	Germany
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	Valencia	75,374	Spain
34	Budapest	73,690	Hungary
35	Luxembourg	72,361	Luxembourg
36	Nurenberg	69,562	Germany
37	Bucharest	67,623	Romania
38	Malmö	62,349	Sweden
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	Sevilla	49,003	Spain
50	Aarhus	47,206	Denmark
51	Eindhoven	46,445	Netherlands
52	Alicante-Elche	46,410	Spain
53	Dresden	46,369	Germany
54	Brescia	45,428	Italy
55	Bonn	45,317	Germany
56	Grenoble	44,826	France
57	Katowice	44,570	Poland
58	Bilbao	44,090	Spain
59	Bologna	43,129	Italy
60	Rouen	43,070	France
61	Strasbourg	41,422	France
62	Linz	41,413	Austria
63	Málaga-Marbella	41,239	Spain
64	Karlsruhe	39,945	Germany
65	Rennes	39,899	France
66	Nice	39,592	France
67	Bergamo	39,562	Italy
68	Murcia-Cartagena	39,416	Spain
69	Florence	38,838	Italy
70	Montpellier	38,387	France
71	Leipzig	38,033	Germany
72	Porto	34,898	Portugal
73	Zaragoza	34,185	Spain
74	Gent	33,554	Belgium
75	A Coruña	33,495	Spain
76	Padua	33,461	Italy
77	Sofia	33,259	Bulgaria
78	Ingolstadt	32,626	Germany
79	Verona	32,499	Italy
80	Breda	32,245	Netherlands
81	Arnhem-Nijmegen	31,871	Netherlands
82	Mainz	31,672	Germany
83	Heidelberg	31,095	Germany
84	Saarbrücken	30,795	Germany
85	Graz	30,347	Austria
86	Genoa	29,039	Italy
87	Heilbronn	28,985	Germany
88	Kraków	28,742	Poland
89	Bari	28,702	Italy
90	Poznań	28,603	Poland
91	Oviedo-Gijón	28,356	Spain
92	Las Palmas	28,193	Spain
93	Freiburg im Breisgau	28,149	Germany
94	Bratislava	28,104	Slovakia
95	Augsburg	27,556	Germany
96	Aalborg	27,460	Denmark
97	Brest	27,233	France
98	Cádiz	26,667	Spain
99	Venice	26,470	Italy
100	Liège	26,413	Belgium
101	Enschede	26,173	Netherlands
102	Münster	26,053	Germany
103	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	25,977	Spain
104	Brno	25,938	Czech Republic
105	Vigo	25,673	Spain
106	Annecy-Genève	25,474	France   Switzerland
107	Pamplona	24,991	Spain
108	Angers	24,955	France
109	Lefkosia	24,928	Cyprus
110	Zagreb	24,907	Croatia
111	Kiel	24,523	Germany
112	Palermo	24,380	Italy
113	Vilnius	24,362	Lithuania
114	Palma de Mallorca	24,358	Spain
115	Wiesbaden	24,350	Germany
116	Ulm	24,044	Germany
117	San Sebastián	23,839	Spain
118	Gdańsk	23,781	Poland
119	Regensburg	23,629	Germany
120	Darmstadt	23,554	Germany
121	Orléans	23,062	France
122	Riga	22,961	Latvia
123	Mulhouse	22,945	France
124	Aachen	22,907	Germany
125	Clermont-Ferrand	22,892	France
126	Saint-Etienne	22,655	France
127	Groningen	22,480	Netherlands
128	Pau	22,318	France
129	Würzburg	22,191	Germany
130	Tampere	22,104	Finland
131	Salzburg	22,093	Austria
132	Odense	21,745	Denmark
133	Caen	21,290	France
134	Catania	21,020	Italy
135	Granada	20,950	Spain
136	Nancy	20,841	France
137	Tilburg	20,814	Netherlands
138	Ostrava	20,781	Czech Republic
139	Osnabrück	20,721	Germany
140	Reims	20,385	France
141	Reggio Emilia	20,311	Italy
142	Ljubljana	20,256	Slovenia
143	Turku	20,009	Finland
144	Nimes	19,908	France
145	Dijon	19,648	France
146	Tours	19,586	France
147	Uppsala	19,080	Sweden
148	Parma	19,032	Italy
149	Offenburg	18,902	Germany
150	Tallinn	18,861	Estonia
151	Erfurt	18,745	Germany
152	Łódź	18,415	Poland
153	Kassel	18,084	Germany
154	Perugia	17,527	Italy
155	Leiden	17,520	Netherlands
156	Córdoba	17,301	Spain
157	Zwolle	17,295	Netherlands
158	Magdeburg	17,112	Germany
159	Santander	16,722	Spain
160	Aschaffenburg	16,613	Germany
161	Wrocław	16,579	Poland
162	Oldenburg	16,576	Germany
163	Göttingen	16,559	Germany
164	Valladolid	16,505	Spain
165	Amiens	16,460	France
166	Lübeck	16,156	Germany
167	Thessaloniki	16,003	Greece
168	Besançon	15,970	France
169	Koblenz	15,881	Germany
170	Iserlohn	15,775	Germany
171	Le Mans	15,595	France
172	Halle (Saale)	15,509	Germany
173	Bocholt	15,141	Germany
174	Siegen	14,936	Germany
175	Bielefeld	14,847	Germany
176	Rostock	14,788	Germany
177	Innsbruck	14,788	Austria
178	Charleroi	14,734	Belgium
179	Valletta	14,676	Malta
180	Vitoria-Gasteiz	14,111	Spain
181	Wuppertal	13,617	Germany
182	Rosenheim	13,073	Germany
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 (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