European population figures

[Spartan]

European National and City Population Figures

(List Includes Principalities)

France:60,424,213

Largest cities

Paris 2,125,246 (1999)

Marseille 798,430 (1999)

Lyon 445,452 (1999)

Toulouse 390,350 (1999)

Nice 342,738 (1999)

Nantes 270,251 (1999)

Strasbourg 264,115 (1999)

Montpellier 225,392 (1999)

Bordeaux 215,363 (1999)

Rennes 206,229 (1999)

Germany: 82,424,609

Largest cities

Berlin 3,382,200 (2001 estimate)

Hamburg 1,715,400 (2001 estimate)

Munich 1,210,200 (2001 estimate)

Cologne 962,900 (2001 estimate)

Frankfurt 646,600 (2001 estimate)

Essen 595,200 (2001 estimate)

Dortmund 589,000 (2001 estimate)

Stuttgart 583,900 (2001 estimate)

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[Neo]

That's a handy list to have! Learned some new cities by reading through that.

[BigCityAttitude]

Interesting... I thought the UK had more millionaire cities than London.

[samsonyuen]

Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Edinburgh, I believe are all millionaires or multis in their metro area.

[Spartan]

I know there are alot of countries left out, but like I said, I will add more later.

[Spartan]

Added more countries and the list od the other countries

[Allan]

As of 1999, Moscow had 8,297,900 residents in the city proper.

[BigCityAttitude]

It's Russia, what do you expect?

Edit: In 2000, Russia had a population of approx. 146 million.

[Spartan]

I knew Russia was large in population, but I was suprised to see it was that high.

I'll post more pop stats next week.

[BigCityAttitude]

Moscow has a downtown, as far as I'm concerned. Just not one distinguished by skyscrapers.

[wolfdawg54]

I thought Paris was bigger than 2 mil...

[Spartan]

It could be. Im not sure if that is city or metro population.

[BigCityAttitude]

Paris has a very large Metro, so I'm guessing 2 million is it's city population.

[M. Brown]

Wow. Moscow is pretty big.

[Christian]

Here are all cities with a population above 50 000 in Norway:

Oslo, 518 929 (801 028 in metro)

Bergen, 212 626

Trondheim, 145 691

Stavanger, 110 677 (171 342 in metro)

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[Allan]

Wow, there are more people in metro Detroit than there are in all of Norway. I did not know that. Norway does have a lot more density and historic architecture than we do here though.

[Christian]

Yes, Norway isn't actually overcrowded... But the population increase is today one of the highest in Europa, and we may pass Denmark and Finland in a few years.

And here are all cities over 10 000 in Iceland:

Reykjavik, 113 387 (estimated 31.12.2003) (177 890 in metro)

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[Christian]

And here are all Swedish cities with a population above 100 000.

Stockholm, 754 948 (2001 estimated)

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[MathNerd05]

Icelandic names are quite nearly impossible to pronounce.

I did not realize London and Moscow were that large.

[Christian]

Icelandic names are quite nearly impossible to pronounce.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes they are hard to pronounce, its actually wors than you can imagine! They have this extremly difficult accent on many of the words. Islandic is the same as old Norwegian, or old scandinavian. But the language has growing from each other now, but i still understand the language quite a few.

[Spartan]

I had a European Geography class, and they talked about the Nordic languages. They said that Icelandic children could read old sages with ease. And that Danish, Sweedish, and Norweigian are all similar enough that they are relatively easy to learn for native speakers. I guess its similar to French, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian being based on Latin. I think that the way languages have developed is fasciniating.

[Christian]

I had a European Geography class, and they talked about the Nordic languages. They said that Icelandic children could read old sages with ease. And that Danish, Sweedish, and Norweigian are all similar enough that they are relatively easy to learn for native speakers. I guess its similar to French, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian being based on Latin. I think that the way languages have developed is fasciniating.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish is very similar. We all know each these languages very well, and we don't need to learn the languages to understand them. Islandic is something which is a bit more difficult, and Finnish and the Sam

[wolfdawg54]

Norway seems to not have as much density in its cities. There really are not that many skyscrapers or highrises in Olso even. Is this true or am I wrong? Also, what about Finland?

[Christian]

Norway seems to not have as much density in its cities. There really are not that many skyscrapers or highrises in Olso even. Is this true or am I wrong? Also, what about Finland?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Norwegian cities isn't very dense, but we can find a bit dense areas in the cities, even with its few inhabitants. Oslo has about 110 high-rise buildings which is standing today while Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger and Drammen has several buildings. But they are not colected in a smaller area, they are located over the whole city. Most of these dense areas is residential commieblocks from the 50s, 60s and the 70s.

I will give some information about Finland soon.

[wolfdawg54]

Why are there no central areas for high-rises in Oslo. It seems that sprawl is conroling Norwegian cities. Is this the case or am I wrong?