Functional urban areas by country

The OECD and the European Commission have jointly developed a methodology to define functional urban areas (FUAs) in a consistent way across countries. Using population density and travel-to-work flows as key information, a FUA consists of a densely inhabited city and of a surrounding area (commuting zone) whose labour market is highly integrated with the city (OECD 2012). The ultimate aim of the OECD-EU approach to functional urban areas is to create a harmonised definition of cities and their areas of influence for international comparisons as well as for policy analysis on topics related to urban development.

The following profiles provide the functional urban areas of each country. The following information is included:

Map of the country with all the functional urban areas.
List of the functional urban areas by population size.
Population living in functional urban areas.
Methodological notes on data used.
Shapefiles of the metropolitan areas areas by country

The map and list of urban areas are in pdf and shapefile format below:

Australia - shapefile	Japan - shapefile
Austria - shapefile	‌ Korea - shapefile
Belgium - shapefile	Latvia - shapefile
Canada - shapefile	Lithuania - shapefile
Chile - shapefile	Luxembourg - shapefile
Colombia - shapefile - paper	Mexico - shapefile
Czech Republic - shapefile	Netherlands‌ - shapefile
Denmark - shapefile	New Zealand - shapefile
Estonia - shapefile	Norway - shapefile
European Union - shapefile	Poland - shapefile
Finland - shapefile	Portugal- shapefile
France - shapefile	Slovak Republic - shapefile
Germany - shapefile	Slovenia - shapefile
Greece - shapefile	Spain - shapefile
Hungary - shapefile	Sweden - shapefile
Iceland - shapefile	Switzerland - shapefile
Ireland - shapefile	Türkiye - shapefile
Israel - shapefile	United Kingdom - shapefile
Italy - shapefile	United States - shapefile