City nicknames and "slogans/sayings"

[Mr Bricks]

So what´s your (or some other city´s) nickname? Or is there some sort of "slogan"/"saying"? And I don´t mean names used in everyday language.

A few I came up with: NYC - "The big apple", "The city that never sleeps",

London - (saying) "When I man is tired of London he´s tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford"

Paris - "City of lights", "City of Romance"

St:Peterburg - "Paris of the North"

Shanghai - "Paris of the East", "Pearl of the orient"

Rome - "The eternal city"

[mrstar]

Glasgow - No Mean City

[hkskyline]

Hong Kong has been traditionally called 'pearl of the orient'.

[svs]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

Hong Kong has been traditionally called 'pearl of the orient'.

Hong Kong of course, translates to "fragrant harbor". I think that is pretty nice.

[Elsongs]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

Hong Kong has been traditionally called 'pearl of the orient'.

I thought HK was "The City of Life"

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by Elsongs

I thought HK was "The City of Life"

It was but they needed a more powerful approach and came up with "Asia's World City"

HK was also called "New York of The East", "New York of Asia", "Manhattan of Asia" or "Honghattan" because of it's skyline and high quantity of skyscrapers

Singapore is more known as "Lion City" than "Garden City"

[hkth]

Originally Posted by Elsongs

I thought HK was "The City of Life"

Originally Posted by WANCH

It was but they needed a more powerful approach and came up with "Asia's World City"

HK was also called "New York of The East", "New York of Asia", "Manhattan of Asia" or "Honghattan" because of it's skyline and high quantity of skyscrapers

Singapore is more known as "Lion City" than "Garden City"

Actually Shenzhen is also a Garden City!

For Guangzhou, there're nicknames like "Flower City", "Ram City" and "Five Rams City".

[hkskyline]

Originally Posted by WANCH

HK was also called "New York of The East", "New York of Asia", "Manhattan of Asia" or "Honghattan" because of it's skyline and high quantity of skyscrapers

I have never heard of those names before. Unlike what you're portraying, Hong Kongers are not in perpetual competition with New Yorkers.

[teh]

Singapore -
The Garden City, The Lion City

Slogan for Singapore - " Uniquely Singapore "

By social or political analysts - The Nanny State, Disneyland with a death penalty.

By unhappy foreign politicians - The red dot. A piece of snot. Tiny Singapore.

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

I have never heard of those names before. Unlike what you're portraying, Hong Kongers are not in perpetual competition with New Yorkers.

Yes they're not but these names were given because of the skyline.

[hkskyline]

Originally Posted by Elsongs

I thought HK was "The City of Life"

Pearl of the Orient has been around far longer, while the City of Life was a marketing slogan used by the tourism board a number of years ago. Since then, they changed it to Asia's World City.

[SE9]

Nairobi, Kenya: "The Green City in the Sun"

Pretoria, South Africa: "Jacaranda City"

London: "The Big Smoke"

[staff]

Stockholm: "Venice of the North".

Shanghai: "Whore of the Orient" (HK in the "Pearl of the Orient" I think).

Malmö: "City of Parks". "Haur du sitt Malmö haur du sitt varlden" (saying in the local dialect that translates "Have you seen Malmö, you've seen the world).

Copenhagen: "Byen" ("The City", in Danish).

[Novak]

Helsinki
- The White Pearl of the Baltic Sea
- The White City of the North
- The Daughter of the Baltic

[MOTA]

Rio de Janeiro - The Wonderful City

[Marco_]

Originally Posted by MOTA

Rio de Janeiro - The Wonderful City

City of god?

[Küsel]

Originally Posted by Marco_

City of god?

That's a slum Maybe you mean because of the last pope's comment: "If God is Brazilian (a common saying: Deus e Brasileiro), then the pope is Carioca (person from Rio)"

Zurich:
Old slogan: Little Big City
Nowadays: Downtown Switzerland

But that's slogans by the tourism board. The original nicknames are "Limmatstadt" (because of the main river) or "Zwinglistadt" (after the famous reformer)

[Marco_]

Amsterdam is called Mokum (City in Hebrew language), or Venice of the North

[pdxheel]

Portland, Oregon has several:

"Rose City"
"Stumptown"
"River City"
"Bridgetown"

[bruin787]

Los Angeles
- the city of angels