Percent Of People Who Live In The Capital City In Europe

Map created by Nerdy.MapsThe map above shows the percentage of people who live in the wider metro area and/or agglomeration of the country’s capital city.

Unsurprisingly, the numbers are highest in many of Europe’s smallest countries such as Malta (82%) and Luxembourg (82%) and exclude micro-states like the Vatican or San Marino where it would be 100%.

The to other extreme is also rather interesting, Switzerland is the lowest at just 5%. But several large states such as Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Poland and Turkey all have numbers below 10%.

Here is the full ranked list:

1. Malta (Valletta) – 82%
2. Luxembourg (Luxembourg City) – 82%
3. Iceland (Reykjavik) – 64%
4. Latvia (Riga) – 46%
5. Estonia (Tallinn) – 43%
6. Ireland (Dublin) – 40%
7. Denmark (Copenhagen) – 35%
8. Greece (Athens) – 35%
9. Hungary (Budapest) – 33%
10. Austria (Vienna) – 32%
11. Montenegro (Podgorica) – 32%
12. Albania (Tirana) – 32%
13. Finland (Helsinki) – 31%
14. Croatia (Zagreb) – 30%
15. North Macedonia (Skopje) – 30%
16. Portugal (Lisbon) – 29%
17. Norway (Oslo) – 29%
18. Slovenia (Ljubljana) – 27%
19. Kosovo (Pristina) – 27%
20. Lithuania (Vilnius) – 26%
21. Serbia (Belgrade) – 26%
22. Belarus (Minsk) – 26%
23. Czech Republic (Prague) – 25%
24. Bulgaria (Sofia) – 24%
25. Belgium (Brussels) – 24%
26. Sweden (Stockholm) – 23%
27. Moldova (Chișinău) – 22%
28. United Kingdom (London) – 22%
29. France (Paris) – 19%
30. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) – 15%
31. Spain (Madrid) – 14%
32. Netherlands (Amsterdam) – 14%
33. Romania (Bucharest) – 12%
34. Slovakia (Bratislava) – 12%
35. Poland (Warsaw) – 9%
36. Ukraine (Kyiv) – 9%
37. Italy (Rome) – 7%
38. Turkey (Ankara) – 7%
39. Germany (Berlin) – 6%
40. Switzerland (Bern) – 5%