Can you name the most populated European cities with English names consisting of only 4, 5 and 6 letters?

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Population (Overall Rank) 4 Letters
2,649,000 (6)
2,590,000 (7)
1,014,000 (34)
803,000 (45)
793,000 (47)
786,000 (48)
506,000 (96)
505,000 (97)
451,000 (119)
415,000 (130)
385,000 (139)
348,000 (157)
343,000 (159)
335,000 (169)
301,000 (203)
296,000 (209)
286,000 (218)
274,000 (232)
238,000 (281)
234,000 (287)

Population (Overall Rank) 5 Letters
2,152,000 (8)
1,677,000 (12)
1,306,000 (20)
1,139,000 (26)
1,092,000 (28)
921,000 (39)
727,000 (55)
656,000 (62)
600,000 (72)
528,000 (88)
475,000 (109)
466,000 (113)
440,000 (123)
342,000 (162)
334,000 (171)
310,000 (190)
299,000 (205)
286,000 (220)
273,000 (233)
264,000 (244)

Population (Overall Rank) 6 Letters
8,297,000 (1)
7,074,000 (2)
3,387,000 (4)
2,824,000 (5)
1,615,000 (13)
1,540,000 (15)
1,195,000 (22)
1,193,000 (23)
1,165,000 (24)
1,047,000 (32)
1,002,000 (36)
868,000 (43)
772,000 (49)
740,000 (52)
578,000 (79)
563,000 (82)
543,000 (84)
540,000 (85)
528,000 (89)
482,000 (106)

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Short-Named European Cities Quiz

by Booger

Created May 10, 2011 in Geography
Featured Oct 2, 2011
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	halophex:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 15:24 GMT	17 points
	Plenty of 4-letter words came to mind as I played - unfortunately most of them belong in a George Carlin monologue

	ZapRowsdower:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 15:33 GMT	5 points
	Lots o' people in Russia. Who knew? :-)

	zalkon2004:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 15:34 GMT	10 points
	At some point I have got to learn Russian cities! Moscow, St. Petersburg, ugh...ugh..ugh...

	Davidos:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 15:40 GMT	1 point
	Its tough to tell what cities in Russia are in Europe and which are in Asia, especially since the Ural Mts. aren't labled very well on my map.

	tulliuscicero:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 15:45 GMT	-1 points
	Could you accept Napoli for Naples?

	pfrijiritr:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 15:45 GMT	3 points
	St. Petersburg (3) doubtlessly feels nominally weight-conscious.

	thedropsoffire:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 16:15 GMT	31 points
	Surprised Bern wasn't there

	asta:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 16:36 GMT	26 points
	wigan! No way! haha!

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	gigimacmurray:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 16:50 GMT	2 points
	I know "thedropsoffire", I kept typing in Bern, thinking, "C'mon, it's a big city in Switzerland, the capital even". I typed in Wien or Vienna, no good on that one, either.

	salla:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 16:54 GMT	-1 points
	there are over 1 million people in dublin?

	Kwoj:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 17:13 GMT	12 points
	Knew it was time to give up when i typed in 'Luxembourg'

	jefrunner:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 17:20 GMT	27 points
	Huh, got Brest in Belarus while thinking of the one in France! I'll take whatever help I can get.

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	Booger:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 19:12 GMT	18 points
	@ SaintPetersbourg: Sporcle is a website in English. There is no way anyone could possibly know the native language spellings of all of these cities without looking them up. Even then, many of the native language spellings (such as Wien for Vienna and München for Munich) would affect whether the city would appear on this list at all and if so where. While it would be nice if I could include the native-language versions of the city names that happen to have the same number of letters as the English versions of the city names, I think an expectation for such alternates for every city listed here is unrealistic. And if I did some, but not others, I would be criticized.

	Booger:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 19:19 GMT	27 points
	@jefrunner: Who knew Europe had two significant Brests? I didn't until I made this quiz.

	dancastro:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 19:22 GMT	4 points
	@Davidos: on the ground, the Russians themselves have marked very well the boundary Europe-Asia, so there is no doubt about the continent to which each city belongs. There are several columns, monuments and even lines marked on the highways with the inscription Европа (Yevropa) on one side and Азия (Aziya) on the other.

	DunKhan:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 19:47 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz! If the boundaries are done purely by geography though, then surely the European bits of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan should be included? Or are they included and Baku and Tblisi just happen to fall in Asia or outside of the range of this quiz?

	ghankstewart:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 19:48 GMT	8 points
	No Venice, no Zurich! I'm surprised: this would have been an incredibly difficult minefield! Nice quiz as is!

	Pit_trout:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 19:54 GMT	11 points
	Maybe give a bonus for Hull (UK)? Its official name Kingston-upon-Hull is too long, yes, but it’s always known as Hull and is big enough that it would count in the 4-letters. @DunKhan: your argument has good logic to it, but the well-established Sporcle convention is to treat Russia and Turkey as bicontinental but the Caucasian countries as entirely in Asia.

	Jeep1964:	Oct 2nd, 2011 at 19:56 GMT	4 points
	Am I the only one that put in Brest and meant the one in Belarus? For those not familiar with the city, look up the treaty between Germany and Russia that took Russia out of World War I. It's the Brest in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.