A metropolitan area'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 area in a given period of time. In this case the statistics of Eurostat's [1] Urban Audit for larger urban zones have been used.
This list shows top 200 EU metropolitan areas by GDP. [2] [3] [4]
| Rank | Metropolitan area | GDP (mil. €) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Paris metropolitan area, France | 782,639 | 2022 [3] |
| 2 |  Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany | 501,718 | 2020 [4] |
| 3 | Munich Metropolitan Region, Germany | 336,703 | 2020 [4] |
| 4 | Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, Germany | 273,357 | 2020 [4] |
| 5 | Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Germany | 268,179 | 2022 [5] |
| 6 |  Madrid Metropolitan Area, Spain | 261,713 | 2022 [3] |
| 7 | Stuttgart Metropolitan Region, Germany | 258,236 | 2020 [4] |
| 8 |  Greater Dublin Area, Ireland | 230,366 | 2021 [2] |
| 9 | Hamburg Metropolitan Region, Germany | 228,774 | 2020 [4] |
| 10 |  Milan metropolitan area, Italy | 228,436 | 2021 [2] |
| 11 |  Amsterdam metropolitan area, Netherlands | 201,100 | 2021 [2] |
| 12 |  Brussels metropolitan area, Belgium | 200,457 | 2022 [2] |
| 13 |  Greater Copenhagen, Denmark | 178,834 | 2022 [2] |
| 14 | Barcelona metropolitan area, Spain | 173,722 | 2021 [2] |
| 15 |  Stockholm metropolitan area, Sweden | 172,401 | 2021 [3] |
| 16 | Rome metropolitan area, Italy | 163,462 | 2021 [2] |
| 17 | Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region, Germany | 162,990 | 2020 [4] |
| 18 | Nuremberg Metropolitan Region, Germany | 148,131 | 2020 [4] |
| 19 |  Vienna metropolitan area, Austria | 140,330 | 2021 [2] |
| 20 | Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, France | 125,382 | 2021 [2] |
| 21 | Metropolitan Cork, Ireland | 115,681 | 2021 [2] |
| 22 |  Warsaw metropolitan area, Poland | 114,436 | 2022 [3] |
| 23 |  Prague metropolitan area, Czechia | 109,990 | 2022 [2] |
| 24 |  Greater Helsinki, Finland | 105,831 | 2022 [3] |
| 25 | Northwest Metropolitan Region, Germany | 101,322 | 2020 [4] |
| 26 | Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, Germany | 99,242 | 2020 [4] |
| 27 | Metropolis of Lyon, France | 97,306 | 2021 [2] |
| 28 |  Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece | 97,030 | 2022 [3] |
| 29 | Central German Metropolitan Region, Germany | 95,939 | 2020 [4] |
| 30 | Rotterdam metropolitan area, Netherlands | 95,187 | 2021 [2] |
| 31 | Gothenburg metropolitan area, Sweden | 88,582 | 2021 [2] |
| 32 |  Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal | 87,368 | 2022 [2] |
| 33 | European Metropolis of Lille, France | 85,949 | 2021 [2] |
| 34 | Utrecht metropolitan area, Netherlands | 83,278 | 2021 [2] |
| 35 |  Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary | 81,835 | 2022 [2] |
| 36 |  Luxembourg metropolitan area, Luxembourg | 77,529 | 2022 [2] |
| 37 | Turin metropolitan area, Italy | 75,854 | 2021 [2] |
| 38 |  Bucharest Metropolitan Area, Romania | 65,995 | 2021 [3] |
| 39 | Malmö metropolitan area, Sweden | 62,349 | 2021 [2] |
| 40 | Antwerp metropolitan area, Belgium | 62,169 | 2022 [2] |
| 41 | Valencia metropolitan area, Spain | 61,411 | 2021 [2] |
| 42 | Bordeaux metropolitan area, France | 61,279 | 2021 [2] |
| 43 | Naples metropolitan area, Italy | 61,059 | 2021 [2] |
| 44 | Toulouse Métropole, France | 59,033 | 2021 [2] |
| 45 | The Hague metropolitan area, Netherlands | 56,038 | 2021 [2] |
| 46 | Nantes metropolitan area, France | 54,834 | 2021 [2] |
| 47 | Aarhus metropolitan area, Denmark | 50,694 | 2021 [2] |
| 48 | Eindhoven metropolitan area, Netherlands | 46,445 | 2021 [2] |
| 49 | Dresden metropolitan area, Germany | 46,369 | 2021 [2] |
| 50 | Brescia metropolitan area, Italy | 45,428 | 2021 [2] |
| 51 | Grenoble metropolitan area, France | 44,826 | 2021 [2] |
| 52 | Katowice metropolitan area, Poland | 44,570 | 2021 [2] |
| 53 | Bologna metropolitan area, Italy | 43,129 | 2021 [2] |
| 54 | Métropole Rouen Normandie, France | 43,070 | 2021 [2] |
| 55 | Strasbourg metropolitan area, France | 41,422 | 2021 [2] |
| 56 | Linz metropolitan area, Austria | 41,413 | 2021 [2] |
| 57 | Seville metropolitan area, Spain | 40,658 | 2021 [2] |
| 58 | Karlsruhe metropolitan area, Germany | 39,945 | 2021 [2] |
| 59 | Rennes Métropole, France | 39,899 | 2021 [2] |
| 60 | Nice metropolitan area, France | 39,592 | 2021 [2] |
| 61 | Bergamo metropolitan area, Italy | 39,562 | 2021 [2] |
| 62 | Porto metropolitan area, Portugal | 39,179 | 2021 [2] |
| 63 | Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy | 38,838 | 2021 [2] |
| 64 | Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, France | 38,387 | 2021 [2] |
| 65 | Alicante-Elche metropolitan area, Spain | 37,280 | 2021 [2] |
| 66 | Ghent metropolitan area, Belgium | 36,878 | 2021 [2] |
| 67 | Bilbao metropolitan area, Spain | 35,447 | 2021 [2] |
| 68 | Padua–Treviso–Venice metropolitan area, Italy | 33,461 | 2021 [2] |
| 69 |  Sofia metropolitan area, Bulgaria | 33,259 | 2021 [2] |
| 70 | Murcia metropolitan area, Spain | 32,719 | 2021 [2] |
| 71 | Verona metropolitan area, Italy | 32,499 | 2021 [2] |
| 72 | Breda metropolitan area, Netherlands | 32,245 | 2021 [2] |
| 73 | Arnhem–Nijmegen metropolitan area, Netherlands | 31,871 | 2021 [2] |
| 74 | Heidelberg metropolitan area, Germany | 31,095 | 2021 [2] |
| 75 | Saarbrücken metropolitan area, Germany | 30,795 | 2021 [2] |
| 76 | Málaga metropolitan area, Spain | 30,776 | 2021 [2] |
| 77 |  Bratislava metropolitan area, Slovakia | 30,709 | 2022 [2] |
| 78 | Graz metropolitan area, Austria | 30,347 | 2021 [2] |
| 79 | Brno metropolitan area, Czechia | 30,334 | 2022 [2] |
| 80 | Aalborg metropolitan area, Denmark | 28,926 | 2022 [2] |
| 81 | Liège metropolitan area, Belgium | 28,852 | 2021 [2] |
| 82 |  Zagreb metropolitan area, Croatia | 28,780 | 2022 [2] |
| 83 | Kraków metropolitan area, Poland | 28,742 | 2021 [2] |
| 84 | Metropolitan City of Bari, Italy | 28,702 | 2021 [2] |
| 85 | Poznań metropolitan area, Poland | 28,603 | 2021 [2] |
| 86 | Freiburg im Breisgau metropolitan area, Germany | 28,149 | 2021 [2] |
| 87 | Zaragoza metropolitan area, Spain | 27,987 | 2021 [2] |
| 88 |  Nicosia metropolitan area, Cyprus | 27,777 | 2022 [2] |
| 89 | A Coruña metropolitan area, Spain | 27,348 | 2021 [2] |
| 90 | Brest Métropole, France | 27,233 | 2021 [2] |
| 91 | Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy | 26,752 | 2020 [2] |
| 92 | Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy | 26,470 | 2021 [2] |
| 93 | Enschede metropolitan area, Netherlands | 26,173 | 2021 [2] |
| 94 | Annecy, metropolitan area, France | 25,474 | 2021 [2] |
| 95 | Angers Loire Métropole, France | 24,955 | 2021 [2] |
| 96 | Kiel metropolitan area, Germany | 24,523 | 2021 [2] |
| 97 | Metropolitan City of Palermo, Italy | 24,380 | 2021 [2] |
| 98 |  Vilnius urban area, Lithuania | 24,362 | 2021 [2] |
| 99 | Palma de Mallorca metropolitan area, Spain | 24,358 | 2021 [2] |
| 100 | Ostrava metropolitan area, Czechia | 24,329 | 2022 [2] |
| 101 | Ulm metropolitan area, Germany | 24,044 | 2021 [2] |
| 102 | San Sebastián metropolitan area, Spain | 23,839 | 2021 [2] |
| 103 | Gdansk metropolitan area, Poland | 23,781 | 2021 [2] |
| 104 | Regensburg metropolitan area, Germany | 23,629 | 2021 [2] |
| 105 | Asturias metropolitan area, Spain | 23,550 | 2021 [2] |
| 106 | Orléans metropolitan area, France | 23,062 | 2021 [2] |
| 107 |  Riga metropolitan area, Latvia | 22,961 | 2021 [2] |
| 108 | Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, France | 22,945 | 2021 [2] |
| 109 | Odense metropolitan area, Denmark | 22,933 | 2022 [2] |
| 110 | Aachen metropolitan area, Germany | 22,907 | 2021 [2] |
| 111 | Clermont-Ferrand metropolitan area, France | 22,892 | 2021 [2] |
| 112 | Saint-Étienne Métropole, France | 22,655 | 2021 [2] |
| 113 | Cádiz-Jerez metropolitan area, Spain | 22,636 | 2021 [2] |
| 114 | Groningen metropolitan area, Netherlands | 22,480 | 2021 [2] |
| 115 | Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées, France | 22,318 | 2021 [2] |
| 116 | Tampere metropolitan area, Finland | 22,104 | 2021 [2] |
| 117 | Salzburg metropolitan area, Austria | 22,093 | 2021 [2] |
| 118 | Vigo metropolitan area, Spain | 21,988 | 2021 [2] |
| 119 |  Ljubljana metropolitan area, Slovenia | 21,929 | 2021 [2] |
| 120 |  Tallinn metropolitan area, Estonia | 21,680 | 2022 [2] |
| 121 | Caen metropolitan area, France | 21,290 | 2021 [2] |
| 122 | Metropolitan City of Catania, Italy | 21,020 | 2021 [2] |
| 123 | Métropole du Grand Nancy, France | 20,841 | 2021 [2] |
| 124 | Tilburg metropolitan area, Netherlands | 20,814 | 2021 [2] |
| 125 | Pamplona metropolitan area, Spain | 20,519 | 2021 [2] |
| 126 | Grand Reims, France | 20,385 | 2021 [2] |
| 127 | Reggio Emilia metropolitan area, Italy | 20,311 | 2021 [2] |
| 128 | Osnabrück metropolitan area, Germany | 20,271 | 2021 [2] |
| 129 | Turku metropolitan area, Finland | 20,009 | 2021 [2] |
| 130 | Communauté d'agglomération Nîmes Métropole, France | 19,908 | 2021 [2] |
| 131 | Dijon Métropole, France | 19,648 | 2021 [2] |
| 132 | Tours Métropole Val de Loire, France | 19,586 | 2021 [2] |
| 133 | Uppsala metropolitan area, Sweden | 19,080 | 2021 [2] |
| 134 | Parma metropolitan area, Italy | 19,032 | 2021 [2] |
| 135 | Offenburg metropolitan area, Germany | 18,902 | 2021 [2] |
| 136 | Erfurt metropolitan area, Germany | 18,745 | 2021 [2] |
| 137 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife metropolitan area, Spain | 18,680 | 2021 [2] |
| 138 | Łódź metropolitan area, Poland | 18,415 | 2021 [2] |
| 139 | Kassel metropolitan area, Germany | 18,084 | 2021 [2] |
| 140 | Perugia metropolitan area, Italy | 17,527 | 2021 [2] |
| 141 | Leiden metropolitan area, Netherlands | 17,520 | 2021 [2] |
| 142 | Zwolle metropolitan area, Netherlands | 17,295 | 2021 [2] |
| 143 | Granada metropolitan area, Spain | 17,141 | 2021 [2] |
| 144 | Magdeburg metropolitan area, Germany | 17,112 | 2021 [2] |
| 145 |  Valletta metropolitan area, Malta | 16,716 | 2022 [2] |
| 146 | Las Palmas metropolitan area, Spain | 16,562 | 2021 [2] |
| 147 | Wrocław metropolitan area, Poland | 16,579 | 2021 [2] |
| 148 | Amiens metropolitan area, France | 16,460 | 2021 [2] |
| 149 | Thessaloniki metropolitan area, Greece | 16,003 | 2021 [2] |
| 150 | Grand Besançon Métropole, France | 15,970 | 2021 [2] |
| 151 | Koblenz metropolitan area, Germany | 15,881 | 2021 [2] |
| 152 | Charleroi metropolitan area, Belgium | 15,782 | 2022 [2] |
| 153 | Iserlohn metropolitan area, Germany | 15,775 | 2021 [2] |
| 154 | Le Mans Métropole, France | 15,595 | 2021 [2] |
| 155 | Bocholt metropolitan area, Germany | 15,141 | 2021 [2] |
| 156 | Siegen metropolitan area, Germany | 14,936 | 2021 [2] |
| 157 | Bielefeld metropolitan area, Germany | 14,847 | 2021 [2] |
| 158 | Rostock metropolitan area, Germany | 14,788 | 2021 [2] |
| 159 | Innsbruck metropolitan area, Austria | 14,787 | 2021 [2] |
| 160 | Córdoba metropolitan area, Spain | 14,616 | 2021 [2] |
| 161 | Valladolid metropolitan area, Spain | 14,294 | 2021 [2] |
| 162 | Santander metropolitan area, Spain | 14,022 | 2021 [2] |
| 163 | Plzeň metropolitan area, Czechia | 13,298 | 2022 [2] |
| 164 | Košice metropolitan Area, Slovakia | 13,289 | 2021 [2] |
| 165 | Vitoria-Gasteiz metropolitan area, Spain | 12,940 | 2021 [2] |
| 166 | Grand Poitiers communauté urbaine, France | 12,849 | 2021 [2] |
| 167 | Cluj-Napoca metropolitan area, Romania | 12,471 | 2021 [2] |
| 168 | Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole, France | 12,252 | 2021 [2] |
| 169 | Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Italy | 12,059 | 2021 [2] |
| 170 | Pforzheim metropolitan area, Germany | 12,031 | 2021 [2] |
| 171 | Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area, Poland | 11,904 | 2021 [2] |
| 172 | Paderborn metropolitan area, Germany | 11,897 | 2021 [2] |
| 173 | Kaunas urban area, Lithuania | 11,690 | 2021 [2] |
| 174 | Schweinfurt metropolitan area, Germany | 11,663 | 2021 [2] |
| 175 | Metropolitan City of Messina, Italy | 11,585 | 2021 [2] |
| 176 | Taranto metropolitan area, Italy | 11,491 | 2021 [2] |
| 177 | Namur metropolitan area, Belgium | 11,370 | 2021 [2] |
| 178 | Limoges metropolitan area, France | 11,268 | 2021 [2] |
| 179 | Leeuwarden metropolitan area, Netherlands | 11,255 | 2021 [2] |
| 180 | Timișoara metropolitan area, Romania | 11,147 | 2021 [2] |
| 181 | Konstanz, metropolitan area, Germany | 11,111 | 2021 [2] |
| 182 | Les Abymes metropolitan area, France | 10,489 | 2021 [2] |
| 183 | Flensburg metropolitan Area, Germany | 10,115 | 2021 [2] |
| 184 | Lublin metropolitan area, Poland | 9,765 | 2021 [2] |
| 185 | Bielsko-Biała metropolitan area, Poland | 9,725 | 2021 [2] |
| 186 | Fort-de-France metropolitan area, France | 9,654 | 2021 [2] |
| 187 | Coimbra metropolitan area, Portugal | 9,306 | 2022 [2] |
| 188 | Constanța metropolitan area, Romania | 9,246 | 2021 [2] |
| 189 | Wetzlar metropolitan area, Germany | 9,086 | 2021 [2] |
| 190 | Ploiești metropolitan area, Romania | 8,842 | 2021 [2] |
| 191 | Kaiserslautern metropolitan area, Germany | 8,817 | 2021 [2] |
| 192 | Kielce metropolitan area, Poland | 8,775 | 2021 [2] |
| 193 | Opole metropolitan area, Poland | 8,475 | 2021 [2] |
| 194 | Iași metropolitan area, Romania | 8,394 | 2021 [2] |
| 195 | Rzeszów metropolitan area, Poland | 8,284 | 2021 [2] |
| 196 | Prato metropolitan area, Italy | 8,238 | 2021 [2] |
| 197 | Neubrandenburg metropolitan area, Germany | 7,936 | 2021 [2] |
| 198 | Brașov metropolitan area, Romania | 7,903 | 2021 [2] |
| 199 | Székesfehérvár metropolitan area, Hungary | 7,506 | 2022 [2] |
| 200 | Maribor metropolitan area, Slovenia | 7,230 | 2022 [2] |
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