Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26865706-20161009101104/@comment-26182781-20170623135941

Misterskin wrote: NinjaMan107 wrote: I have never been out of the United States but I really want to go to Denmark. Mainz does sound French. Metz sounds more like an American baseball team. (New York Mets) You have totally wrong on this: Metz is one of the importants cities in the North-East of France (not important as Strasbourg or Nancy, and I'm not talking in football/soccer here). Mainz is a city in Germany, it can sound french but it is really deep is Germany (in France we call "Mainz" "Mayence").

Yes, Metz, Nancy and Strasbourg are big cites in Nort East France. Strasbourg is the most important and also the biggest city and capital. You only forgot Dijon, Reims, Troyes and Mulhouse. They also lie in Grand Est. Dijon and Reims are bigger cities than Nancy and Metz. I have never understood why Metz and Nancy are so important in France. In Paris they already have Metz and Nancy on the boards on the A4, while Reims or Strasbourg would have been much more logical since they are bigger cities. Mainz is not very deep in Germany. It is only 150 kilometer from the border of France, but still I can't understand why it sounds like a French city. All Germany cities sound very German. Look at cities such as Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe and Freiburg in Breisgua who are all close to the border of France. They sure aren't French. Only the French cities in Alsace still sounds German because that part of France was a part of Germany before World War I. Strasbourg's name was Straßburg and Mulhouse's name was Mülhausen.