Blue Banana - List of Cities and Regions

List of Cities and Regions

The cities in the table below include their greater urban areas, clockwise from the Northwest.

City / Metropolitan Area Country Population (millions)
Liverpool / Liverpool Urban Area United Kingdom 1.3
Newport / South Wales United Kingdom 1.3
Cardiff / South Wales United Kingdom 1.3
Manchester - Salford / Greater Manchester United Kingdom 2.5
Leeds - Bradford / West Yorkshire Urban Area United Kingdom 1.9
Sheffield / South Yorkshire United Kingdom 1.5
Birmingham - Wolverhampton / West Midlands United Kingdom 2.6
Nottingham - Derby United Kingdom 0.8
London commuter belt United Kingdom 13.9
Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai France & Belgium 1.8
Flemish Diamond Belgium 5.5
Randstad Netherlands 7.1
Brabantse Stedenrij Netherlands 1.7
Arnhem-Nijmegen Netherlands 0.8
Euregio Enschede-Gronau Netherlands & Germany 3.3
Meuse-Rhine Belgium, Netherlands, & Germany 3.9
Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area Germany 12.0
Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Germany 5.2
Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany 3.4
Mannheim/Rhine-Neckar Germany 2.0
Saarbrücken-Forbach Germany & France 0.7
Strasbourg-Ortenau France & Germany 0.9
Stuttgart Region/Metropolitan Region Germany 5.3
Munich metropolitan area Germany 2.6
Basel metropolitan area Switzerland, France & Germany 0.7
Zürich metropolitan area Switzerland 3.8
Milan metropolitan area Italy 7.5
Turin metropolitan area Italy 2.2
Genoa metropolitan area Italy 1.3
Nice metropolitan area France 0.9
TOTAL 92.4

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