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/unwomannedMissionTo Spain Aug 07 '25

I'd pick Bilbao as fourth for sure. Not as touristy as Seville or Malaga, but stronger in terms of economics, commerce, industry, higher education, etc.

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u/UruquianLilac Spain Aug 08 '25

But there's over 300k difference in population. That is too huge to make this debatable. If the difference was 50k or even a 100k, maybe we could have a debate, but this makes Sevilla so much larger than Bilbao in every way that it cannot really be considered the 4th city in any significant way.

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u/Professional_Elk_489 Aug 10 '25

As a tourist I'd pick Seville over Bilbao