Second Cities of Europe

Name the second-largest cities of each country in Europe. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_national_capital,_largest_and_second-largest_cities

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Country	Largest City (Metro)	Second City (Metro)
Albania	Tirana	Durrës
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Les Escaldes
Austria	Vienna	Graz
Belarus	Minsk	Gomel
Belgium	Brussels	Antwerp
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Banja Luka
Bulgaria	Sofia	Plovdiv
Croatia	Zagreb	Split
Czech Republic	Prague	Ostrava
Denmark	Copenhagen	Aarhus
Estonia	Tallinn	Tartu
Finland	Helsinki	Tampere
France	Paris	Lyon
Germany	Rhine-Ruhr	Berlin
Greece	Athens	Thessaloniki
Hungary	Budapest	Debrecen
Iceland	Reykjavík	Kópavogur
Ireland	Dublin	Cork
Italy	Rome	Milan
Kosovo	Pristina	Prizren
Latvia	Riga	Daugavpils
Liechtenstein	Schaan	Vaduz
Lithuania	Vilnius	Kaunas

Country	Largest City (Metro)	Second City (Metro)
Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	Esch-sur-Alzette
Macedonia	Skopje	Bitola
Malta	Valletta	Mosta
Moldova	Chişinău	Tiraspol
Monaco	Monte Carlo	La Condamine
Montenegro	Podgorica	Nikšić
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Rotterdam
Norway	Oslo	Bergen
Poland	Warsaw	Kraków
Portugal	Lisbon	Porto
Romania	Bucharest	Constanța
Russia	Moscow	Saint Petersburg
San Marino	Dogana	Borgo Maggiore
Serbia	Belgrade	Novi Sad
Slovakia	Bratislava	Košice
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Maribor
Spain	Madrid	Barcelona
Sweden	Stockholm	Gothenburg
Switzerland	Zürich	Geneva
Ukraine	Kiev	Donetsk
United Kingdom	London	Birmingham
Vatican City	Vatican City	N/A

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15 Comments

Level 61

Dec 31, 2022

According to wikipedia, Homel should be spelled Gomel or Homiel

Level 85

Dec 31, 2022

Thank you, this must have been a typo on my part, I can't see that it was ever called Homel. Or a typo on the old Wikipedia page - it appears that the data this quiz was based on no longer exists on Wikipedia.

Level 83

Jun 25, 2024

This comes from a misunderstanding of Slavic languages and the best ways to transliterate Cyrillic into Latin.

The name of the city is written as "Гомел" - which, if you transliterate from (Russian) Cyrillic into Latin, gives you "Gomel."

However Belorussian is not Russian. In Belorussian (as well as Ukrainian and a few other Slavic languages), the letter "Г" is pronounced as an "H" not as a "G." Meaning that the name of the city is (locally) pronounced as "Homel."

Since the only authoritative spelling is the Cyrillic one, it becomes ambiguous as to how to spell it in Latin.

Personally I would recommend having "Gomel" as the answer but accepting both "Homel" and "Homiel" as type-ins.

I know that I always try both "Gomel" and "Homel" for this city in quizzes just in case one is accepted but the other isn't.

Level 85

Jun 25, 2024

What a wonderful explanation - thank you so much! I have added "Homel" back as a type-in. Now "Gomel", "Homel", and "Homiel" all work.

Level 85

Dec 31, 2022

Czech Republic isn't Brno? Hmmm...

Level 85

Jan 1, 2023

This data is based on metro area, and yes, based on metro area Ostrava is bigger.

Level 83

Jun 25, 2024

Honestly the data's kind of all over the place. Because some of these seem to be city proper populations, some of them seem to be urban area. And then there are also a few examples (the one that sticks out to me is Kópavogur in Iceland) where the accepted answer is actually inside the same metro area as the largest city.

(Which isn't to even begin addressing the case of Monaco - where both Monte Carlo and La Condamine are merely neighbourhoods inside the singular city of Monaco which is co-extensive with the country as a whole, and one could make an argument that this answer should appear as "N/A" the same way that Vatican City's does.)

But eh. It is what it is. I understand that the data was just taken from a Wikipedia page (yuck) and it's maybe best to not editorialize/mess with it.

Level 85

Jun 25, 2024

It's a really complicated question. Defining populations of metro areas is not as straightforward as we might like. What is a metro area, what is a city....so I come from Dallas, and for sure Ft. Worth and its suburbs are considered part of the same metropolitan area, but I can assure you that plenty of people from Ft. Worth are none too happy to be lumped in with Dallas. Culturally they consider themselves very distinct, and there's a lot of truth to it.

As the world urbanizes more, and some urban areas stretch so far that they practically meld into others, it gets increasingly complicated. How long until Washington D.C. and Baltimore are a single metropolitan area? How much longer after that before you never leave urbanization taking I-95 up to Philadelphia? I'm sure there's also a lot of debate at the fringes of metro areas as to what communities are included.

City proper population is much easier, but also much less intuitive.

If anyone has any specific changes, I'm all ears.

Level 77

Jun 25, 2024

I think you should take Esch for Luxembourg, it's the most common name!

Level 85

Jun 25, 2024

Fair. This looks good - I'm trimming the type-in down to simply "Esch" or "Alzette"

Level 69

Jul 6, 2024

Alzette is the name of the river, that wouldn't really make sense.

Esch is the main part of the name, and "sur Alzette" (on Alzette) is a qualifier.

Level 54

Jun 25, 2024

there is far far too few time

Level 85

Jun 25, 2024

I mean, it's supposed to be a challenge! If a lot of people agree I'm open to upping it.

Level 77

Jun 25, 2024

Given there's several where you can't just quickly write the "obvious" answer (due to the city / metro area type uncertainty discussed in other comments), it is tight on time even if you know your large cities.

Level 85

Jun 26, 2024

This is fair, let's make it 6 minutes instead of 4...that gives 8 seconds per country