Eurostat City Statistics · 2022

European cities with populations from 100,000 to 249,999: 162 records

European cities with populations from 100,000 to 249,999 includes 162 records in the 2022 Eurostat dataset. This ranking uses city records only, so greater-city populations never compete with city populations.

Source Eurostat City Statistics Vintage 2022 Geography Eurostat city records only Page coverage 162 city records in this band Dataset updated 2026-08-26

426 city records report the 2022 population indicator. 163 greater-city records are excluded before ranking. Population is the reported DE1001V value for each Eurostat city geography. Missing population values remain excluded. Source details are available in the methodology.

Sortable city table

European cities with populations from 100,000 to 249,999. Use the column headings to change the order.
# Geography
1 Aachen Germany city 249,070
2 Braunschweig Germany city 248,823
3 Kiel Germany city 246,243
4 Tampere/Tammerfors Finland city 244,223
5 Chemnitz Germany city 243,105
6 Vantaa/Vanda Finland city 239,206
7 Halle an der Saale Germany city 238,061
8 Uppsala Sweden city 237,596
9 Magdeburg Germany city 236,188
10 Elche/Elx Spain city 235,580
11 Groningen Netherlands city 234,950
12 Freiburg im Breisgau Germany city 231,848
13 Krefeld Germany city 227,050
14 Messina Italy city 221,246
15 Almere Netherlands city 217,828
16 Mainz Germany city 217,556
17 Cartagena Spain city 216,961
18 Lübeck Germany city 216,277
19 Oviedo Spain city 215,167
20 Erfurt Germany city 213,227
21 Jerez de la Frontera Spain city 212,730
22 Oulu/Uleåborg Finland city 209,551
23 Oberhausen Germany city 208,752
24 Rostock Germany city 208,400
25 Padova Italy city 206,651
26 Kassel Germany city 200,406
27 Debrecen Hungary city 199,725
28 Trieste Italy city 199,015
29 Burgas Bulgaria city 198,035
30 Alcalá de Henares Spain city 196,888
31 Brescia Italy city 195,906
32 Parma Italy city 195,436
33 Prato Italy city 195,213
34 Turku/Åbo Finland city 195,137
35 Taranto Italy city 189,461
36 Hagen Germany city 188,713
37 Modena Italy city 184,971
38 Breda Netherlands city 184,702
39 Potsdam Germany city 183,154
40 Saarbrücken Germany city 179,634
41 Hamm Germany city 179,238
42 Nijmegen Netherlands city 179,100
43 Arnhem Netherlands city 178,832
44 Burgos Spain city 173,483
45 Reggio di Calabria Italy city 172,479
46 Albacete Spain city 172,357
47 Ludwigshafen am Rhein Germany city 172,145
48 Castellón de la Plana/Castelló de la Plana Spain city 171,857
49 Santander Spain city 171,693
50 Mülheim a.d.Ruhr Germany city 170,739
51 Oldenburg (Oldenburg) Germany city 170,389
52 Reggio nell'Emilia Italy city 169,908
53 Plzeň Czechia city 168,733
54 Apeldoorn Netherlands city 165,611
55 Linköping Sweden city 165,527
56 Osnabrück Germany city 165,034
57 Leverkusen Germany city 163,851
58 Perugia Italy city 162,362
59 Enschede Netherlands city 160,640
60 Ede Netherlands city 159,925
61 Darmstadt Germany city 159,631
62 Haarlemmermeer Netherlands city 159,336
63 Heidelberg Germany city 159,245
64 Solingen Germany city 158,957
65 Amersfoort Netherlands city 158,590
66 Szeged Hungary city 157,372
67 Örebro Sweden city 156,988
68 Västerås Sweden city 156,839
69 Herne Germany city 156,621
70 's-Hertogenbosch Netherlands city 156,538
71 Saint-Denis France city 156,149
72 Ravenna Italy city 155,836
73 Livorno Italy city 154,483
74 Regensburg Germany city 153,542
75 Neuss Germany city 152,731
76 Paderborn Germany city 152,531
77 Klaipėda Lithuania city 152,237
78 Marbella Spain city 150,725
79 Nîmes France city 150,444
80 Badajoz Spain city 150,146
81 Helsingborg Sweden city 150,111
82 Logroño Spain city 150,020
83 Rimini Italy city 149,169
84 Aix-en-Provence France city 147,933
85 Miskolc Hungary city 147,480
86 Foggia Italy city 146,803
87 Bergen Norway city 144,699
88 Jyväskylä Finland city 144,473
89 Norrköping Sweden city 144,457
90 Huelva Spain city 141,854
91 Brest France city 140,993
92 Lleida Spain city 140,797
93 Pécs Hungary city 138,420
94 Ingolstadt Germany city 138,016
95 Dos Hermanas Spain city 137,561
96 Torrejón de Ardoz Spain city 134,733
97 Ruse Bulgaria city 133,813
98 Gyõr Hungary city 132,111
99 Offenbach am Main Germany city 131,295
100 Umeå Sweden city 130,998
101 Zwolle Netherlands city 130,668
102 Ferrara Italy city 129,872
103 Fürth Germany city 129,122
104 Mataró Spain city 128,956
105 Salerno Italy city 128,136
106 Latina Italy city 127,861
107 Lund Sweden city 127,374
108 Ulm Germany city 126,949
109 Würzburg Germany city 126,933
110 Zoetermeer Netherlands city 125,767
111 Heilbronn Germany city 125,613
112 Pforzheim Germany city 125,529
113 Leeuwarden Netherlands city 125,504
114 Stara Zagora Bulgaria city 124,599
115 Wolfsburg Germany city 123,949
116 Algeciras Spain city 122,368
117 Sassari Italy city 122,159
118 Kuopio Finland city 121,543
119 Maastricht Netherlands city 121,151
120 Besançon France city 120,057
121 Lahti/Lahtis Finland city 120,027
122 Brugge Belgium city 118,731
123 Trento Italy city 117,847
124 Bottrop Germany city 117,311
125 Siracusa Italy city 117,055
126 Forlì Italy city 116,558
127 Göttingen Germany city 116,557
128 Reutlingen Germany city 116,456
129 Nyíregyháza Hungary city 115,521
130 Winterthur Switzerland city 115,129
131 Borås Sweden city 114,093
132 Koblenz Germany city 113,638
133 Namur Belgium city 113,636
134 Erlangen Germany city 113,292
135 Bremerhaven Germany city 113,173
136 Cádiz Spain city 113,066
137 Maribor Slovenia city 113,004
138 Alphen aan den Rijn Netherlands city 112,926
139 Remscheid Germany city 111,770
140 Jaén Spain city 111,669
141 Bergisch Gladbach Germany city 111,645
142 Recklinghausen Germany city 110,714
143 Trier Germany city 110,570
144 Jena Germany city 110,502
145 Vicenza Italy city 110,293
146 Kecskemét Hungary city 108,817
147 Terni Italy city 107,165
148 Reus Spain city 106,741
149 Bolzano Italy city 106,601
150 Rijeka Croatia city 105,744
151 Moers Germany city 103,725
152 Salzgitter Germany city 103,694
153 Telde Spain city 102,472
154 Piacenza Italy city 102,364
155 Venlo Netherlands city 102,136
156 Šiauliai Lithuania city 101,756
157 Leuven Belgium city 101,612
158 Siegen Germany city 101,516
159 Deventer Netherlands city 101,446
160 Novara Italy city 101,367
161 Södertälje Sweden city 101,209
162 Hildesheim Germany city 100,319
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Universe and definition

The ranking universe is the 426 records in the current dataset labeled "city" that report Eurostat indicator DE1001V for 2022. The band includes both endpoints, from 100,000 through 249,999 people. All 163 reporting records labeled "greater city" are excluded, as are functional urban areas and records without this population value. Rank restarts within this page's qualifying city records. Open the source dataset. The site dataset was updated 2026-08-26.