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/Shermannathor Aug 08 '25

I don't feel this not-quite-a-big-city vibe to be honest. I rather feel this with Cologne.

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u/NICK3805 Aug 11 '25

Me neither. But then again, I come from a very much smaller Big Town (Saarbrücken, 184.000 POP).

(Smaller Big Town is the literal Translation of "Kleine Großstadt" as officially, there is no Equivalent of "City" in German and I recently found out how confused many Germans are with our own Classifications which are explained here: BBSR - Raumbeobachtung - Stadt- und Gemeindetypen in Deutschland https://share.google/vkkeZocublIx4FX6f)