Non-UK people question

[marnanel]

If someone asked you to name two cities in the UK, what would they be?

(Or to put it another way, what's the most famous city in the UK apart from the obvious one?)

I'm mostly interested about what non-UK people think, but UK people should feel free to suggest what they think the answers might show.

For the purposes of this question, ignore what the technical meaning of "city" is and just pretend it means "significant town".

Comments

[highlander_ii]

Are we talking the whole 'UK' or just the 'England' part of it?

Obviously, there's London, and I've been to Brighton (my stay in England was an entire 12 hours during a layover on my way to Italy). And 2 Gatecons were held in England, one in Cheltenham and one in Reading. Beyond that, I'm drawing a blank on cities I know or might know names of and if they are actually 'cities' or if they are 'made up places from pop culture'. =)

Throwing in Scotland, adds Edinburgh, and Wales adds Cardiff.

That's all I've got w/o a map. =)

[ilyena_sylph]

*appears from my network*

Hm. London and Manchester?

This only because I read fandoms with Brit sports...

[desh]

I'd probably say Liverpool. Yay, Beatles.

London and Birmingham

[szabgab]

just because there was a YAPC in 2006 and a QA Hackathon in 2009 I missed.

But before that I think Brighton would come in second.

[pne]

I'd say London and Birmingham.

[lnr]

My first thought was "Leeds and..." and then I read the rest of your comment and London and Cambridge came to mind in that order, but I'm not sure London would be an immediate thought with me if you hadn't said "apart from the obvious one".