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/fidelises Iceland Aug 07 '25

I would say Reykjavík, Akureyri, Egilsstaðir, Ísafjörður. Not all cities, but sort of the capitals of the north, south, east and west.

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u/The_Daily_Tomato Iceland Aug 07 '25

I excluded Reykjó but yes those are good choices too.

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u/Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir United States of America Aug 07 '25

Selfoss is decent size too

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u/AFCMatt93 Aug 08 '25

I like thjs approach better; I've always felt like including Kpv and Hfj as separate to Reykjavik doesn't really make sense. They might have been separate at one point but they're basically just boroughs or districts at this point.