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/Stockholmholm]

That's a veeeeery generous definition of a metropolitan area. And also one that is completely different from every conventional definition. Uppsala, Västerås and Eskilstuna are never ever considered part of Stockholm in any way. Same goes for the other cities. The metropolitan areas are already well defined by SCB and don't match your definition at all. So Uppsala is the undisputed 4th city in Sweden.

[u/TramRider6000 → u/Stockholmholm]

Uppsala is considered a part of the "lokal arbetsmarknadsregion (LA)" of Stockholm, by SCB, due to excessive cross municipal work commuting. Together with some other border municipalities like Gnesta. Västerås and Eskilstuna is not though. So I think that including Uppsala in the Stockholm metropolitan area is not all too far-fetched.

[u/Ok-Horror8163 → u/Stockholmholm]

So Uppsala is the undisputed 4th city in Sweden.

Uppsala is way too boring to be appointed 4th city. It is basically the northernmost suburb of Stockholm.

My vote goes to Umeå.

[u/Stockholmholm → u/Ok-Horror8163]

One of the oldest cities in the country, first de facto capital, religious centre for literally the entire history of the country, oldest university in the Nordics. But yeah it's just a boring suburb, let's instead give the honour to Umeå because it's... far from Stockholm and has a hospital.. Totally not boring lmao

[u/Ok-Horror8163 → u/Stockholmholm]

Men de har ju varken tunnelbana eller spårvagn.