List of songs about cities

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Cities are a major topic for popular songs.[1][2] Music journalist and author Nick Coleman has gone as far as to say that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else."[1]

Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation. In many cases, songs celebrate individual cities, presenting them as exciting and liberating. Not all genres share the tendency to be positive about cities; in Country music cities are often portrayed as unfriendly and dehumanizing, or seductive but full of sin.[1][2] However, there are many exceptions, for example: Lady Antebellum's song "This City" and Danielle Bradbery's "Young in America",.

Lyricist and author Sheila Davis writes that including a city in a song's title helps focus the song on the concrete and specific, which is both more appealing and more likely to lead to universal truth than abstract generalizations. Davis also says that songs with titles concerning cities and other specific places often have enduring popularity.[3]

The following is a list of songs about cities, from both traditional and pop music: the list should not be considered complete.

Albania[edit]

Tirana[edit]

Algeria[edit]

Algiers[edit]

Oran[edit]

Tizi Ouzou[edit]

Armenia[edit]

Yerevan[edit]

Argentina[edit]

Buenos Aires[edit]

Rosario[edit]

Ushuaia[edit]

Córdoba[edit]

Azerbaijan[edit]

Baku[edit]

Australia[edit]

Adelaide[edit]

Alice Springs[edit]

Ballarat[edit]

Bathurst[edit]

Bendigo[edit]

Brisbane[edit]

Broken Hill[edit]

Cairns[edit]

Canberra[edit]

Coffs Harbour[edit]

Darwin[edit]

Fremantle[edit]

Gladstone[edit]

Glenorchy[edit]

Gold Coast[edit]

Hobart[edit]

Kalgoorlie[edit]

Launceston[edit]

Melbourne[edit]

Mount Isa[edit]

Newcastle[edit]

Perth[edit]

Port Lincoln[edit]

Queanbeyan[edit]

Rockhampton[edit]

Sydney[edit]

Tamworth[edit]

Toowoomba[edit]

Townsville[edit]

Woolongong[edit]

Austria[edit]

Friedberg[edit]

Fürstenfeld[edit]

Salzburg[edit]

Vienna[edit]

Belgium[edit]

Aalst[edit]

Antwerp[edit]

Bruges[edit]

Brussels[edit]

Knokke[edit]

Liège[edit]

Ostende[edit]

Waterloo[edit]

Bosnia & Herzegovina[edit]

Sarajevo[edit]

Banja Luka[edit]

Brazil[edit]

Brasília[edit]

Fortaleza[edit]

  • "As Velas do Mucuripe" by Fagner

Londrina[edit]

Porto Alegre[edit]

Recife[edit]

Rio de Janeiro[edit]

Salvador[edit]

São Paulo[edit]

Canada[edit]

Calgary[edit]

Gaspé[edit]

Halifax[edit]

Iqaluit[edit]

Montreal[edit]

Saskatoon[edit]

Regina[edit]

Toronto[edit]

Vancouver[edit]

Winnipeg[edit]

Sudbury[edit]

Chile[edit]

Santiago[edit]

Valparaíso[edit]

Puerto Montt[edit]

China[edit]

Beijing[edit]

Shanghai[edit]

Congo, Democratic Republic of the[edit]

Kinshasa[edit]

Colombia[edit]

Barranquilla[edit]

Bogotá[edit]

Buenaventura[edit]

Cali[edit]

Medellín[edit]

Santa Marta[edit]

Quibdó[edit]

Croatia[edit]

Pula[edit]

Rijeka[edit]

Sinj[edit]

Split[edit]

Vinkovci[edit]

Vukovar[edit]

Zagreb[edit]

Cuba[edit]

Guantánamo[edit]

Havana[edit]

Santiago de Cuba[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

Prague[edit]

Lidice[edit]

Cyprus[edit]

Limassol[edit]

Denmark[edit]

Copenhagen[edit]

Holsterbro[edit]

Skanderborg[edit]

Dominican Republic[edit]

San Pedro de Macorís[edit]

Santo Domingo[edit]

Ecuador[edit]

Guayaquil[edit]

Egypt[edit]

Alexandria[edit]

Cairo[edit]

Finland[edit]

Helsinki[edit]

France[edit]

Ajaccio[edit]

Amiens[edit]

Angers[edit]

Annecy[edit]

Avignon[edit]

Biarritz[edit]

Bordeaux[edit]

Brest[edit]

Caen[edit]

Calais[edit]

Cherbourg-Octeville[edit]

Clermont-Ferrand[edit]

Dijon[edit]

La Rochelle[edit]

Le Havre[edit]

Lille[edit]

Lyon[edit]

Marseille[edit]

Montpellier[edit]

Nancy[edit]

Nantes[edit]

Nice[edit]

Orléans[edit]

Paris[edit]

Pau[edit]

Reims[edit]

Roubaix[edit]

Rouen[edit]

Saint-Étienne[edit]

St. Tropez[edit]

Strasbourg[edit]

Toulouse[edit]

Vesoul[edit]

Germany[edit]

Berlin[edit]

Bochum[edit]

Chemnitz[edit]

Cologne[edit]

Delmenhorst[edit]

Döbeln[edit]

Dresden[edit]

Düsseldorf[edit]

Erlangen[edit]

Frankfurt[edit]

Frankfurt (Oder)[edit]

Gelsenkirchen[edit]

Göttingen[edit]

Hamburg[edit]

Hameln[edit]

Hamm[edit]

Hanover[edit]

Heidelberg[edit]

Heiligenstadt[edit]

Kassel[edit]

Königswinter[edit]

Krefeld[edit]

Leipzig[edit]

Ludwigshafen[edit]

Mannheim[edit]

München[edit]

Nürnberg[edit]

  • "Nürnberg" by Hoelderlin
  • "Nürnberg" by Herr Nilsson

Oberhausen (Rheinland)[edit]

Rostock[edit]

Stuttgart[edit]

Wolfenbüttel[edit]

Guinea-Bissau[edit]

Bissau[edit]

Greece[edit]

Athens[edit]

Piraeus[edit]

Thessaloniki[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

Hungary[edit]

Budapest[edit]

Iceland[edit]

Reykjavík[edit]

Husavik[edit]

Iran[edit]

Isfahan[edit]

Iraq[edit]

Baghdad[edit]

Ireland[edit]

Dublin[edit]

Cork[edit]

Israel/Palestine[edit]

Jerusalem[edit]

India[edit]

Agra[edit]

Ahmedabad[edit]

Amritsar[edit]

Badrinath[edit]

Bareilly[edit]

Bengaluru[edit]

Bikaner[edit]

Bhopal[edit]

Chandigarh[edit]

Chennai[edit]

Dehradun[edit]

Delhi[edit]

Goa[edit]

Hyderabad[edit]

Jaipur[edit]

Jalandhar[edit]

Kanpur[edit]

KanyaKumari[edit]

Kolkata[edit]

Lucknow[edit]

Ludhiana[edit]

Mumbai[edit]

Patiala[edit]

Patna[edit]

Pune[edit]

Raipur[edit]

Vadodara[edit]

Varanasi[edit]

Vrindavan[edit]

Italy[edit]

Bologna[edit]

Genoa[edit]

Milan[edit]

Modena[edit]

Naples[edit]

Pompeii[edit]

Rimini[edit]

Rome[edit]

Turin[edit]

Venice[edit]

Verona[edit]

Ivory Coast[edit]

Abidjan[edit]

Jamaica[edit]

Kingston[edit]

Montego Bay[edit]

Japan[edit]

Fukuoka[edit]

Hiroshima[edit]

Kyoto[edit]

Nagasaki[edit]

Nara[edit]

Tokyo[edit]

Yokohama[edit]

Kenya[edit]

Mombasa[edit]

Kosovo[edit]

Pristina[edit]

Latvia[edit]

Riga[edit]

Lebanon[edit]

Beirut[edit]

Liechtenstein[edit]

Vaduz[edit]

Luxemburg[edit]

Luxemburg[edit]

Mesopotamia[edit]

Babylon[edit]

Mexico[edit]

Acapulco[edit]

Atotonilco[edit]

Culiacán[edit]

Guadalajara[edit]

Juarez[edit]

Mexico City[edit]

Sinaloa[edit]

Tampico[edit]

Tijuana[edit]

Veracruz[edit]

Moldova[edit]

Bălți[edit]

Morocco[edit]

Marrakesh[edit]

Casablanca[edit]

Tanger[edit]

Agadir[edit]

Nepal[edit]

Kathmandu[edit]

Netherlands[edit]

Amsterdam[edit]

Delfzijl[edit]

The Hague[edit]

Eindhoven[edit]

Maassluis[edit]

Nieuwegein[edit]

Nijmegen[edit]

Rotterdam[edit]

Tilburg[edit]

Sneek[edit]

Utrecht[edit]

Zwolle[edit]

Zoutelande[edit]

Amersfoort[edit]

New Zealand[edit]

Auckland[edit]

Hastings[edit]

Wellington[edit]

Nicaragua[edit]

Managua[edit]

Nigeria[edit]

Lagos[edit]

North Korea[edit]

Pyongyang[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

Lahore[edit]

Panama[edit]

Peru[edit]

Lima[edit]

Philippines[edit]

Manila[edit]

Poland[edit]

Bydgoszcz[edit]

Gdańsk[edit]

Gdynia[edit]

Kraków[edit]

Łódź[edit]

Piła[edit]

Poznań[edit]

Rybnik[edit]

  • "Karliku, Karliku" by traditional folk song.

Sopot[edit]

Szczecin[edit]

Warsaw[edit]

Wrocław[edit]

Portugal[edit]

Cascais[edit]

Coimbra[edit]

Lisbon[edit]

Peniche[edit]

Porto[edit]

Puerto Rico[edit]

San Juan[edit]

Romania[edit]

Bucharest[edit]

Timișoara[edit]

Medgidia[edit]

Russia[edit]

Moscow[edit]

Saint Petersburg[edit]

Rwanda[edit]

Gisenyi[edit]

Kigali[edit]

Senegal[edit]

Mbignona[edit]

Serbia[edit]

Belgrade[edit]

South Africa[edit]

Cape Town[edit]

Durban[edit]

Johannesburg[edit]

Margate[edit]

Port Elizabeth[edit]

Pretoria[edit]

  • "Trein na Pretoria" versions by Stefan Lubbe, Die Briels, Die Grafsteen Sangers, Dozi, Peter Senekal.
  • "We are marching to Pretoria" (traditional)

Soweto[edit]

Pretoria/Tshwane[edit]

  • "Mamelodi" (a Township in Pretoria) by Larry Joe featuring Vusi Mahlasela

South Korea[edit]

Seoul[edit]

Busan[edit]

  • Dorawayo Busan Hang E (돌아와요 부산항에) sung by Cho Yong Pil

Spain[edit]

Almería[edit]

Barcelona[edit]

Bilbao[edit]

Cádiz[edit]

Córdoba[edit]

Granada[edit]

Huelva[edit]

Málaga[edit]

Madrid[edit]

Murcia[edit]