100 CITIES AND THEIR NICKNAMES
Turin – City of Four Rivers
1. Paris – The City of Love, The City of Light,
La Ville-Lumiere
2. Prague – The City of Hundred Spires, The
Golden City, The Mother of Cities
3. New York – The Big Apple
4. Las Vegas – Sin City
5. Chicago – The Windy City
6. Vancouver – Rain city, The Big Smoke
7. Montreal – La Belle Ville, Frenchtown, The
City-Mountain
8. Los Angeles – The City of Angels
9. New Orleans – The Big Easy
10. Philadelphia – City of Brotherly Love,
Philly
11. Amsterdam – Venice of the North,
Mokum
12. Venice – La Serenissima, Bride of the
Sea
13. Vienna – The Imperial City, The City of
Dreams, The City of Music
14. London – The Square Mile, The Old
Smoke, The Smoke, The Big Smoke
15. Detroit – Motor City
16. Miami – The Magic City, Little Cuba
17. Memphis – Bluff City
18. Petra – The Rose Red City
19. Pittsburgh – Steel City, Iron City
20. Rome – The Eternal City, City of the
Seven Hills
21. Seattle – The Emerald City
22. Bucharest – Little Paris
23. Florence – The City of Lilies
24. Barcelona – The City of Counts, The City
of Gaudi
25. Budapest – Pearl of the Danube
26. Toronto – Queen City, The Big Muddy
York, Hogtown
27. Dublin – The Fair City
28. Jerusalem – The Holy City
29. Boston – The Hub, Beantown
30. San Francisco – Frisco, The City by the
Bay, The Golden City, San Fran
31. Moscow – The Whitestone, The Forty
Forties, Third Rome
32. Edinburgh – Auld Reekie
33. Geneva – The Peace Capital
34. Rio de Janeiro – Marvelous City
35. Salzburg – White City
36. Mumbai – The City of Dreams
37. Singapore – The Lion City
38. Naples – City of the Sun
39. Bologna – Red City; La Dotta, La Rossa,
La Grassa (the educated, the red, the fat)
40.
41. Genoa – La Superba (The Superb, The
Proud One)
42. Palermo – The Happy
43. Milan – Fashion Capital of the World, The
Drinkable City
44. Cairo – Paris of the Nile
45. Buenos Aires – Paris of the Americas,
Queen of the Plata
46. Ushuaia – The End of the World
47. Melbourne – City by the Bay, Bleak City,
Europe of Australia
48. Sydney – The Harbour City
49. Johannesburg – Egoli or City of Gold,
Jozi, Joburg
50. Sao Paulo – Brazil’s Locomotive, Land of
Drizzle, Sampa
51. Dubrovnik – The Pearl of the Adriatic
52. Helsinki – The White City of the North
53. Bordeaux – City of Wine
54. Nice – Angels City
55. Berlin – The Grey City
56. Jaipur – The Pink City
57. Oslo – Tiger Town
58. Warsaw – Default City, Big Village in the
Middle of Nowhere
59. St Petersburg – The Mind of Russia
60. Madrid – El Foro, The Forum
61. Athens – The City of Violet Crown
62. Dallas – Big D
63. Hong Kong – Pearl of the Orient
64. Munich – Toytown, Millionendorf (village
of a million people), World City with Heart
65. Birmingham – The City of a Thousand
Trades, Brum
66. Lisbon – City with a Future, City of
Seven Hills, The White City
67. The Hague – City of Peace and Justice
68. Kolkata – City of Palaces, City of Love,
City of Joy
69. Beijing – The Forbidden City
70. Adelaide – City of Churches
71. Zagreb – Little Vienna
72. Bruges – Venice of the North
73. Marseille – Phocean City
74. Tel Aviv – The City that Never Stops,
The Big Orange, The Bubble
75. Bolzano – The Door to the Dolomites,
The German One
76. Sanremo – The City of Dreams
77. Tivoli – City of Delights
78. Vicenza – City of Gold
79. Kuala Lumpur – Golden Triangle
80. Cuernavaca – The City of Eternal Spring
81. Tijuana – Television Capital of the World
82. Rotterdam – Manhattan upon Meuse
83. Lima – City of the Kings
84. Manila – City by the Bay
85. Porto – The Invincible City
86. Cadiz – The Little Silver Cup
87. Bilbao – El Bocho
88. Zurich – Little Big City
89. Kyiv – The Mother of Rus’ Cities
90. Honolulu – Sheltered Bay
91. Macau – Oyster City
92. Wroclaw – City of Hundred Bridges
93. Beirut – Paris of the Middle East
94. Udine – Capital of the Great War
95. Ancona – Doric City
96. Tehran – The City of 72 Nations
97. Bengaluru – The City of Gardens
98. Leipzig – Bimbo Town
99. Split – The Diocletian’s City
100. Grenoble – Capital of the Alps
COUNTRIES
Asia
1. Philippines – The Pearl of the Orient
Seas
2. Thailand – Land of Smiles
3. Sri Lanka – India’s Teardrop
4. South Korea – Land of the Morning
Calm
5. North Korea – The Hermit Kingdom
6. Mongolia – Land of Blue Sky
7. Japan – Land of the Rising Sun
8. Indonesia – the Emerald of the
Equator
9. China – The Red Dragon
10. Bhutan – Land of the Thunder Dragon
11. Singapore – The Lion City
12. Afghanistan – Graveyard of Empires
13. Hong Kong – Asia’s World City
14. Macau – Vegas of the East
15. Iraq – Cradle of Ancient Civilization
16. Myanmar – Land of the Golden
Pagodas
Europe
17. Ukraine – The Bread Basket of Europe
18. Switzerland – Land of Milk and Honey
19. Slovenia – The Sunny Side of the Alps
20. Italy – The Boot
21. Ireland – The Emerald Isle
22. Iceland – Land of Fire and Ice
23. France – L’hexagone
24. Finland – Land of Thousand Lakes
25. England – Land of Hope and Glory
26. Belarus – The White Rus
27. Albania – Land of the Eagles
28. Austria – Land of Beauty and Music
Americas
29. Venezuela – Land of Grace
30. United States of America – The Land
of the Free
31. Paraguay – The Island Surrounded by
Land
32. Guyana – Land of Many Waters
33. Chile – Land of Poets
34. Canada – The Great White North
35. Brazil – Land of the Palms
(Pindorama)
36. Peru – Land of the Incas
Middle East
37. Lebanon – Switzerland of the Middle
East
38. Israel – The Holy Land
Oceania
39. New Zealand – Land of the Long
White Cloud
40. Australia – Land Down Under
Africa
41. South Africa – Rainbow National
42. Rwanda – Land of a Thousand Hills
43. Madagascar – The Red Island
44. Lesotho – The Kingdom In the Sky
45. Egypt – The Gift of the Nile
46. Burkina Faso – Land of the Upright
Men
Sugar bowl of the world
Cuba is affectionately known as the Sugar
Bowl of the world, and that is in no small part
due to its being a major exporter of the
world's sweetest product.
Land of golden fleece
Australia, aka the Land of Golden Fleece,
earns this title thanks to its large population of
sheep. This south-of-the-equator country is
perhaps more commonly also known as The
Land Down Under, for obvious geographical
reasons.
Land of thousand lakes
Finland's nickname, like many countries'
nicknames, have glaringly obvious and
symbolic reasons behind them. In this case,
the Land of Thousand Lakes is no exception.
Land of white elephants
Keeping with the symbolic countries
nicknames meanings, Thailand is referred to
as the Land of White Elephants, and the giant
one standing in the room is the "big" reason
why.
Land of the rising sun
Japan's nickname, Land of the rising sun, is
one part location in nature and one part
perspective. Based on the origins of the
nickname, Japan was dubbed with this
moniker by China, as it is from that
geographical perspective, where the sun
appears to "rise."
Playground of Europe / Land of Milk and
Honey
Switzerland may be known as the Playground
of Europe in part because of its ski and resort
destinations in the Alps. It is also sometimes
referred to as the Land of Milk and Honey (a
nickname also shared by other countries
like Lebanon), because of its fine wine and
honey production repute.
Rainbow Nation
This South African nation has one of the
more unique among all the countries
nicknames, both in name and meaning.
Dubbed to have been made famous by South
African leader TuTu, South Africa is warmly
known as the Rainbow Nation, symbolic of its
desire to accept and form a union of many
nations.
The Great White North
Countries nicknames like those of Canada,
known as The Great White North, sometimes
lack creativity but can also be very accurate.
Land of Poets
Chilean poets have won the Nobel Prize not
once, but twice (Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and
Pablo Neruda in 1971), and are now
unsurprisingly referred to as the Land of
Poets.
Land of Fire and Ice
Oh yes, Iceland sits on active volcanic
ground, meanwhile, more than ten percent of
the entire country is covered in glaciers and
ice. Hence, as the theme of countries
nicknames would have it, Iceland is
appropriately known as the Land of Fire and
Ice.
The Boot
Of all the countries nicknames ever imagined,
none could be more obvious, size, and form
than Italy, known simply as The Boot.
PHILIPPINES
Bacolod, Negros Occidental
“City of Smiles”
Cebu
“The Queen City of the South”
Zamboanga
“City of Flowers”
Cagayan de Oro
“The City of Golden Friendship”
Antipolo
“City in the Sky”
Baguio
“Summer Capital of the Philippines”
Roxas City, Capiz Province
“Seafood Capital of the Philippines”
Dadiangas (General Santos City) – GenSan
“The Tuna Capital of the Philippines”
Marikina
Shoe Capital of the Philippines
San Pablo, Laguna
“City of Buko Pie”
“City of Seven Lakes”
Liliw, Laguna
Tsinelas Capital of Laguna