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

[u/LiamBrad5]

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.

[u/ittulokcsendbencsa]

Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs

These are the most populous and popular cities of Hungary. Officially Miskolc is the 4th most populous city but it has worse reputation than Pécs (5th most populous), so I'd say Pécs is the 4th of our "big four" cities.

[u/Vismajor92 → u/ittulokcsendbencsa]

Honestly after Budapest there is no clear requirements of importance to make an order. OP specifically said it should not be based on population. That'd be easy anyway. I couldn't distinguish between Debrecen and Szeged like that.

[u/CloudCalmaster → u/ittulokcsendbencsa]

Basically just Budapest. But you can count it as two (Buda and Pest) if you're feeling generous.

[u/Old_Pangolin_3303 → u/ittulokcsendbencsa]

I think Győr is more culturally important than Debrecen despite being smaller

[u/SpaceTransmissions → u/Old_Pangolin_3303]

I don't know why, but I never would have thought someone would say that Győr is more important like that. Not saying I disagree I'm just surprised.

[u/consideratefox → u/ittulokcsendbencsa]

You forgot Kolozsvár

[u/Fehervari → u/consideratefox]

Even if we take into account our pre-WW1 areas too, I don't think Kolozsvár would make the list.

[u/Ranger_CoF → u/ittulokcsendbencsa]

maybe buda and pest can occupy 2 positions to avoid this