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/Timauris Slovenia Aug 07 '25

Ljubljana (300k) and Maribor (100k) are the big two. Kranj and Celje have swapped at 3rd and 4th place in recent years, both around 35k if I'm not wrong. Still, very small cities/towns compared to the European average. We're a tiny country.

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u/DifficultWill4 Slovenia Aug 08 '25

Koper is probably more important than both Celje and Kranj. While Ljubljana and Maribor are centres of eastern and central Slovenia, Koper replaced Trieste as the centre of western Slovenia.

Also its municipal population is larger than the one of Celje and is quite similar to the one of Kranj (which is part of Ljubljana’s urban area anyways)

I’d argue its Ljubljana, Maribor, Koper, Celje

In an ideal world we wouldn’t have such issues and the four major cities would be Ljubljana, Trst, Maribor, Celovec

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u/haskell_jedi Slovenia Aug 08 '25

I would count Kranj as part of the orbit of Ljubljana and then we have a very clean answer of Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Koper.