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Nibsey:
Well less so city titles than county titles;

So Dublin is: The big Schmoke, The Pale
Galway: City of the tribes
Limerick: Stab city, Treaty city
Cork: The rebel county
Kilkenny: The marble city
Waterford: The crystal county
Louth: The wee county
Kerry: The kingdom
My favourite is probably Mayo: 'Mayo, God help us'

Dublin doesn't have that many nicknames considering it's the capital. I suspose Dublinners prefer to nickname their infrastructure and statues rather than the city itself.

drebay:
I live in the "Rose City" and we even have a Rose Parade.  Also two Rose Gardens, one that is filled with Roses, and one that we fill with fans of basketball, hockey, music and monster trucks.

T'Mar of Vulcan:
Johannesburg is known as "the City of Gold" because its location is solely due to the gold mining industry. The Zulu nickname, Egoli (which means city of gold) was used as the title of a soap opera set here. The province it's in, Gauteng, means "place of gold" in Sotho.

Most English-speaking people call it Joburg (previously Jo'Burg but officially the shortened version now has no apostrophe). Most black people call it Jozi.

I call it home.

Twik:
Toronto is often called "Big Smoke". Not that it has that much pollution - one pundit said it meant it had "a big reputation, not much to show for it - all smoke and no fire".

Mississauga, where I actually live, has no real nickname, except when people call it "Misterandmississauga".

On the far side of Toronto, there's Scarberia, I mean, Scarborough.

GreenEyedHawk:
I live in Edmonton, the City of Champions, which may have been true back in the 80s when some of hockey history's legendary great players were part of our team and the Oilers were an intimidating force to be reckoned with, but not so much now.

It's also sometimes called the Festival City, and if you've ever been in Edmonton in the summertime, you'd know why.

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