Russia is Russia. I don’t count it as European though people do. I live in Berlin and it is small (also it’s only 3.6m people metro area). LA is all metro area with no city which is why I don’t think of it as a city. It doesn’t have the density. Measuring Paris’ population by city proper makes no sense at all. Having spent considerable time in all 3 continents and many of the cities mentioned I think there is a significant difference once cities hit 8m+ population. They become much more imposing and seem to suffer from a different class of infrastructure problems than small cities.

Doesn’t really matter whether you do or not, it’s in Europe.

Ok 3 cities. Russia is in Europe like Turkey is. So make that 4 cities.

The vast majority of its population, 75%+, lives in Europe. Just because their current leader is worsening its ties with the West does not make Russia any less part of Europe.

My point was more when people say they're "going to Europe" they never mean they're going to Russia. If they're going to Russia they say they're going to Russia and not Europe. Russia is culturally and geographically unique.