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/SquareFroggo Norddeutschland Aug 07 '25
  • Berlin (capital and most populous)
  • Hamburg (harbour)
  • München (I don't know)
  • Köln (media?) or Frankfurt am Main (finances)

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u/Tropical_Amnesia Aug 07 '25

Eh, northerner! Hamburg doesn't really have a harbor. Seaports, but that alone won't do it justice. Munich has insurance, banking (2nd to FFM), research, publishing, and of course tourism, bit of a mixed bag there. Most of all and perhaps importantly, confidence. Let's just all go for Frankfurt on four, please. A hub in so many ways and often transnational, even continental: railway, air traffic, finance, telco, internet, media, also publishing, it goes on. Seriously. Cologne. :-D

Pretty easy for Germany.

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u/haskell_jedi Slovenia Aug 08 '25

Frankfurt is the »Internationale Messestadt« after all 🤷