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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
Naples, Marseille, Munich are quite well known.
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Munich isn't the third city of Germany.
Germany has a first tier of cities with fairly flat relative importance. German city limits are highly variable and largely irrelevent. Munich is in that first tier, but Germans wouldn't consider it obviously "above" or "below" others in that tier. There won't be any agreement re. whether Munich is more or less important than Frankfurt or Hamburg or Ruhr, and Berlin is only considered more important bc of external factors, not to Germans. Cologne, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart will be a half-tier behind.
Also, I'm not sure if Marseille is particularly well-known. It obviously varies by region, but I don't think most highly educated people in developed countries could say anything about Marseille. I've been there and the first things that comes to mind are pieds noirs and bouillabaisse.
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