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 Nuremberg 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 Zagreb 45,096 Croatia
55 Grenoble 44,826 France
56 Katowice 44,570 Poland
57 Bologna 43,129 Italy
58 Rouen 43,070 France
59 Strasbourg 41,422 France
60 Linz 41,413 Austria
61 Sevilla 40,658 Spain
62 Karlsruhe 39,945 Germany
63 Rennes 39,899 France
64 Nice 39,592 France
65 Bergamo 39,562 Italy
66 Florence 38,838 Italy
67 Montpellier 38,387 France
68 Leipzig 38,033 Germany
69 Alicante/Alacant-Elche/Elx 37,280 Spain
70 Bilbao 35,447 Spain
71 Porto 34,898 Portugal
72 Gent 33,554 Belgium
73 Padua 33,461 Italy
74 Sofia 33,259 Bulgaria
75 Murcia-Cartagena 32,719 Spain
76 Ingolstadt 32,626 Germany
77 Verona 32,499 Italy
78 Breda 32,245 Netherlands
79 Arnhem-Nijmegen 31,871 Netherlands
80 Mainz 31,672 Germany
81 Heidelberg 31,095 Germany
82 Saarbrücken 30,795 Germany
83 Málaga-Marbella 30,776 Spain
84 Graz 30,347 Austria
85 Genoa 29,039 Italy
86 Heilbronn 28,985 Germany
87 Kraków 28,742 Poland
88 Bari 28,702 Italy
89 Poznań 28,603 Poland
90 Freiburg im Breisgau 28,149 Germany
91 Bratislava 28,104 Slovakia
92 Zaragoza 27,897 Spain
93 Augsburg 27,556 Germany
94 Aalborg 27,460 Denmark
95 A Coruña 27,348 Spain
96 Brest 27,233 France
97 Venice 26,470 Italy
98 Liège 26,413 Belgium
99 Enschede 26,173 Netherlands
100 Münster 26,053 Germany
101 Brno 25,938 Czech Republic
102 Annecy-Genève 25,474 France
 Switzerland
103 Angers 24,955 France
104 Lefkosia 24,928 Cyprus
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 Gdańsk 23,781 Poland
112 Regensburg 23,629 Germany
113 Darmstadt 23,554 Germany
114 Oviedo-Gijón 23,550 Spain
115 Orléans 23,062 France
116 Riga 22,961 Latvia
117 Mulhouse 22,945 France
118 Aachen 22,907 Germany
119 Clermont-Ferrand 22,892 France
120 Saint-Etienne 22,655 France
121 Cádiz 22,636 Spain
122 Groningen 22,480 Netherlands
123 Pau 22,318 France
124 Würzburg 22,191 Germany
125 Tampere 22,104 Finland
126 Salzburg 22,093 Austria
127 Vigo 21,988 Spain
128 Odense 21,745 Denmark
129 Caen 21,290 France
130 Catania 21,020 Italy
131 Granada 20,950 Spain
132 Nancy 20,841 France
133 Tilburg 20,814 Netherlands
134 Ostrava 20,781 Czech Republic
135 Osnabrück 20,721 Germany
136 Pamplona/Iruña 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 Magdeburg 17,112 Germany
156 Aschaffenburg 16,613 Germany
157 Wrocław 16,579 Poland
158 Oldenburg 16,576 Germany
159 Las Palmas 16,562 Spain
160 Göttingen 16,559 Germany
161 Amiens 16,460 France
162 Lübeck 16,156 Germany
163 Thessaloniki 16,003 Greece
164 Besançon 15,970 France
165 Koblenz 15,881 Germany
166 Iserlohn 15,775 Germany
167 Le Mans 15,595 France
168 Halle (Saale) 15,509 Germany
169 Bocholt 15,141 Germany
170 Siegen 14,936 Germany
171 Bielefeld 14,847 Germany
172 Rostock 14,788 Germany
173 Innsbruck 14,788 Austria
174 Charleroi 14,734 Belgium
175 Valletta 14,676 Malta
176 Córdoba 14,616 Spain
177 Valladolid 14,294 Spain
178 Santander 14,022 Spain
179 Wuppertal 13,617 Germany
180 Rosenheim 13,073 Germany
181 Vitoria-Gasteiz 12,940 Spain
182 Poitiers 12,849 France
183 Cluj-Napoca 12,471 Romania
184 Reutlingen 12,270 Germany
185 Košice 12,253 Slovakia
186 Perpignan 12,252 France
187 Cagliari 12,059 Italy
188 Pforzheim 12,031 Germany
189 Bydgoszcz–Toruń (Bydgoszcz, Toruń) 11,904 Poland
190 Paderborn 11,897 Germany
191 Kaunas 11,690 Lithuania
192 Schweinfurt 11,663 Germany
193 Plzeň 11,587 Czech Republic
194 Messina 11,585 Italy
195 Taranto 11,491 Italy
196 Limoges 11,268 France
197 Leeuwarden 11,255 Netherlands
198 Timișoara 11,147 Romania
199 Konstanz 11,111 Germany
200 Giessen 10,718 Germany
201 Namur 10,452 Belgium
202 Zwickau 10,231 Germany
203 Bayreuth 10,183 Germany
204 Schwerin 10,128 Germany
205 Flensburg 10,115 Germany
206 Lublin 9,765 Poland
207 Les Abymes 9,731 France
208 Bielsko-Biała 9,725 Poland
209 Bremerhaven 9,419 Germany
210 Mönchengladbach 9,340 Germany
211 Constanța 9,246 Romania
212 Wetzlar 9,086 Germany
213 Fort-de-France 8,988 France
214 Ploiești 8,842 Romania
215 Kaiserslautern 8,817 Germany
216 Kielce 8,775 Poland
217 Düren 8,482 Germany
218 Opole 8,475 Poland
219 Iași 8,394 Romania
220 Coimbra 8,369 Portugal
221 Hildesheim 8,362 Germany
222 Rzeszów 8,284 Poland
223 Prato 8,238 Italy
224 Neubrandenburg 7,936 Germany
225 Brașov 7,903 Romania
226 Görlitz 7,807 Germany
227 Miskolc 7,437 Hungary
228 Szczecin 7,173 Poland
229 Olsztyn 7,162 Poland
230 Székesfehérvár 7,011 Hungary
231 Częstochowa 6,706 Poland
232 Maribor 6,667 Slovenia
233 Białystok 6,452 Poland
234 Radom 6,330 Poland
235 Craiova 5,973 Romania
236 Debrecen 5,936 Hungary
237 Plovdiv 5,298 Bulgaria
238 Split 4,942 Croatia
239 Galați 4,340 Romania
240 Tarnów 4,310 Poland
241 Varna 4,309 Bulgaria
242 Pécs 3,934 Hungary
243 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

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