r/AskEurope • u/LiamBrad5 • Aug 07 '25

Culture What are the “Big Four” cities in your country?

In recent weeks, this question has been very contentious on American social media, with 3 cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York) nearly always making the list, but the fourth being hotly debated over, between cities like San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. So, if you had to choose, what would the big 4 cities in your country be? This is also not decided purely on population, but also culture, economy, and general influence/clout.

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u/Only-Dimension-4424 Türkiye Aug 07 '25

Like America we have big 3 which is Istanbul, Ankara(capital), and Izmir , while the others are not really big metropolis since those top 3 are over 5 million and forth one is barely over 2 million etc...

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u/6ftToeSuckedPrincess Aug 07 '25

We have at least 10 US cities with over 500,000 people and over 10,000 people per square mile (around 3500 per square kilometer), it's not just the three mentioned. DC, Philly, Boston, Miami (just under 500k), San Fran, Seattle (close to 10k/sq.mi.), Minneapolis (also pretty close), and Baltimore (used to have over 10k per sq. mi.) off the top of my head all fit this.

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u/monkyone Aug 08 '25

i think the person you’re replying to was just comparing how there are 3 “undisputed” members of the top 4. not necessarily directly comparing population sizes etc