Paris, New York, London... What are the nicknames of the most famous cities in the world? You probably know some of them!
At For Travel Lovers, we love nicknames. When it comes to people, nicknames define us better than our first and last names, they're ingenious and funny, and they say so much about who we are and sometimes about how we look (unfortunately).
Nicknames are part of our daily life in many aspects. We give nicknames to people, animals and objects because nicknames generally reflect their true qualities and characteristics much more. Many of the world's most famous cities are no exception to the nickname rule. You probably know some of the most famous cities, but there is still a lot more to know.
On the Internet, there are quite a few lists with nicknames given to cities, but here's a fairly comprehensive one with the most important cities in the world!
City nicknames
1. Nickname of Paris - The City of Light, The City of Love, The City of One Hundred Villages
2. Nickname of Prague - The City of a Hundred Spires, The Golden City, The Mother of Cities
3. Nickname of New York - Big Apple
4. Nickname of Las Vegas - Sin City
5. Nickname of Chicago - The Windy City
6. Vancouver Nickname - Hollywood North, The Big Smoke
7. Nickname of Montreal - The City of a Hundred Spires, The Amsterdam of North America
8. Nickname of Los Angeles - City of Angels
9. New Orleans Nickname - The Big Easy
10. Philadelphia nickname - The City of Brotherly Love, Philly
11. Nickname of Amsterdam - The Venice of the North
12. Nickname of Venice - The Serenissima, The City of the Doges, The City of Lovers
13. Nickname of Vienna - The Imperial, The capital of music
14. Nickname of London - The Old Smoke, The World-City, The English melting pot
15. Nickname of Detroit - Motor City
16. Nickname of Miami - Magic City, Gateway to the Americas
17. Memphis Nickname - The Bluff City, The River City
18. Nickname of Petra - The city of pink sandstone
19. Nickname of Pittsburgh - The City of Steel
20. Nicknames of Rome - The Eternal City, The City of Seven Hills, The Holy City
21. Nickname of Seattle - The Emerald City
22. Nickname of Bucharest - The Little Paris of the Balkans
23. Nickname of Florence - The City of the Lily, The Capital of the Arts
24. Nickname of Barcelona - The City of Gaudí, The City of Gaudi
25. Nickname of Budapest - The Pearl of the Danube
26. Toronto's nickname - The Queen City, Toronto the Wise, Hogtown (because of its slaughterhouse, hog "pig")
27. Nickname Dublin - The City of a Thousand and One Colourful Gates, The Beautiful City
28. Nickname of Jerusalem - The Holy City, The City of Copper and Gold
29. Nickname of Boston - The Hub, Beantown, The Walking City
30. Nickname of San Francisco - The City by the Bay, Fog City, Frisco
31. Nicknames of Moscow - The Third Rome
32. Edinburgh - Auld Reekie (The Old Smoker), Northern Athens
33. Nickname of Geneva - The capital of peace, The smallest of the big capitals, Protestant Rome
34. Nickname of Rio de Janeiro - The Wonderful City (A cidade maravilhosa)
35. Nickname of Salzburg - Germanic Rome
36. Nickname of Bombay - The Maximum City, The City of Dreams
37. Singapore's Nickname - The Lion City, The Garden City
38. Nickname of Naples - The Parthenopian City, The City of the Sun
39. Bologna's nickname - La Dotta, La Rossa, La Grassa (The red, the erudite and the fat); The capital of the Tortellini, The city of the two Towers
40. Nickname of Turin - The City of the Four Rivers, The Automobile Capital
41. Nickname of Genoa - The Superb, The Proud One
42. Nickname of Palermo - The Happy One
43. Nickname of Milan - The Drinkable City, the fashion capital of the world
44. Nickname of Cairo - The Paris of the Nile, The City of a Thousand Minarets
45. Nickname of Buenos Aires - The Paris of South America, The Queen of Plata
46. Nickname of Ushuaia - El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World)
47. Nickname of Melbourne - Paris of the Antipodes, Marvellous Melbourne
48. Nickname of Sydney - The Harbour City
50. Nickname of São Paulo - The Concrete Jungle, The City of Mist, The Locomotive of Brazil
51. Dubrovnik's nickname - The Pearl of the Adriatic Sea
52. Nickname of Helsinki - The White City of the North
53. Nickname of Bordeaux - The world capital of wine
54. Nickname of Nice - Nissa la bella, the City of Angels
55. Nickname Berlin - The Grey City, The City of Bears
56. Nickname of Jaipur - The Pink City
57. Nickname of Oslo - The City of the Tiger
58. Nickname of Warsaw - Paris oriental, The Phoenix City
59. Nickname of St. Petersburg - The Venice of the North
60. Nickname of Madrid - El Foro, (The Forum), The Royal City
61. Nickname of Athens - The City of the Purple Crown, The Cradle of Western Civilization, The City of Athena
62. Nickname of Dallas - Big D
63. Nickname of Hong Kong - The Pearl of the Orient
64. Nickname Munich - The city with a big heart, The secret capital of Germany
65. Nickname of Birmingham - The Workshop of the World, The City of a Thousand Crafts, The Second City
66. Nickname of Lisbon - The White City, The Big Lettuce, The City of Ulysses, The Queen of the Tagus, The City of a Thousand Colours
67. Nickname The Hague - City of Peace and Justice
68. Nickname of Calcutta - City of Palaces, City of Love, City of Joy
69. Nickname of Beijing - The City of Eternal Spring, The Forbidden City
70. Nickname of Adelaide - City of Churches
71. Nickname of Zagreb - Little Vienna
72. Nickname of Bruges - The Venice of the North
73. Nickname of Marseille - The Phocaean City
74. Nickname of Tel Aviv - The City Without Break
75. Nickname of Bolzano - The Gateway to the Dolomites, The Germanic, The Capital of the Alps
76. Nickname of Sanremo - The City of Flowers, The City of Dreams
77. Nickname of Tivoli - City of Delights
78. Nickname of Vicenza - The City of Gold
79. Nickname of Kuala Lumpur - The Golden Triangle
80. Nickname of Montpellier - The Gifted One
81. Nickname of Tijuana - Television Capital of the World
82. Nickname of Rotterdam - Manhattan on the Meuse River
83. Nickname of Lima - The City of Kings ("La Ciudad de los Reyes")
84. Nickname of Manila - City by the Bay, The Pearl of the Orient
85. Nickname of Porto - The Undefeated
86. Nickname of Cádiz - The Little Silver Cup
87. Nickname of Bilbao - El Botxo" (the hollow)
88. Nickname of Zurich - The Economic Capital
89. Nickname of Kiev - The Mother of all Russian Cities
90. Nickname of Honolulu - Sheltered Bay
91. Macao's Nickname - The Queen of Games, The Game Hell
92. Nickname of Wrocław - The Polish Venice
93. Nickname of Beirut - Paris of the East, The city that refuses to disappear, The city that doesn't die
94. Nickname of Lyon - The capital of the Gauls, The world capital of gastronomy, The city of gones
95. Nickname of Avignon - City of the Popes
96. Nickname of Tehran - The City of 72 Nations
97. Nickname of Toulouse - The Pink City, The City of Violets
98. Nickname of Leipzig - Little Berlin, Hypezig, Little Paris
99. Nantes - The city of the dukes, The Venice of the West
100. Nickname of Grenoble - The Capital of the Alps
101. Nicknamed Belgrade - The Berlin of the Balkans
102. Nickname of Brussels - The Washington of Europe
103. Nickname of Marrakech - The Red City
