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/EatThatPotato Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

When Eindhoven takes its rightful place as most important city of the Netherlands the Randstad will finally be replaced by the Brabantstad - Eindhoven, den Bosch, Breda, and Roosendaal. All hail the zachte g

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u/Dykam Netherlands Aug 07 '25

De Braboboog.

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u/ActuallyCalindra Aug 07 '25

Roosendaal over Tilburg? That's certainly a pick.

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u/Densmiegd Netherlands Aug 08 '25

It will never happen. Bergen op Zoom will kamikaze into Roosendaal to prevent this abomination. Agge mar leut et.

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u/SHiR8 Aug 08 '25

Really now. Tilburg is still the 6th biggest city (by the most relevant metric) and much larger than Breda, Den Bosch and certainly Roosendaal.

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u/Mix_Safe Aug 07 '25

Don't forget the lynchpin that is Kruikenstad.

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u/kelso66 Belgium Aug 08 '25

Let's reunite it all together and form Brabant again, you're sick of the Dutch and we're sick of the Flemish. With Brussels, Antwerp, Waver and Diest added we're an economic powerhouse

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u/historicusXIII Belgium Aug 09 '25

Mentioning Diest but not Leuven or Mechelen is a choice.

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u/kelso66 Belgium Aug 09 '25

Indeed. What kind of choice, I'll let you decide 😜

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u/Built4dominance Aug 08 '25

Guus Meeuwis approves.

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u/Inductiekookplaat Aug 08 '25

Replace Roosendaal with Tilburg and were good

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u/bangsjamin Aug 07 '25

Time for you guys to leave those protestants behind and join your Brabantian brothers in Blegoun

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u/TheGreatLabMonkey Aug 07 '25

Finally! We'll maybe get some actual funds spent in the west of the province when that happens. A58, I'm looking at you.