r/geography Aug 31 '24

What's a city significant and well known in your country, but will raise an eyebrow to anyone outside of it? Discussion

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u/Maniadh Aug 31 '24

As someone in Northern Ireland, I've always been aware of Leeds but it took me by surprise too to learn how big/significant it is compared to cities like Manchester and Sheffield, which I'd always presumed were magnitudes larger.

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u/joebewaan Aug 31 '24

Manchester is

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u/SnooBooks1701 Sep 02 '24

Greater Manchester is, Manchester proper is the same size

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u/joebewaan Sep 02 '24

Yeah technically, but I usually go off a city being one continuous metro area without fields / rural stuff in between. So for Manchester that would pretty much be everything inside the m60, so still quite a bit larger