获取mysql数据库中记录的最大项目数

Question

I've a Mysql table called "roomrent" which have following structure:

Id     city           country
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1      Dhaka          Bangladesh
2      Dhaka          Bangladesh
3      Washington     United States 
4      Paris          France
5      Dhaka          Bangladesh
6      Paris          France

I want to show 5 cities from DB which are recorded maximum time. Like: in this table Dhaka is recoded maximum time.

So it's should be show like this:

Dhaka
Paris
Washington
and other.....

How do i get this with mysql query ? I know it's can be done by mysql Select query , But I can't.

Note: I'm new in php & mysql and It's my learning time.

Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

You should be able to use the following. Which gets a count of the cities that appear in your table and will return the top 5:

select city, count(city) Total
from roomrent
group by city
order by total desc
limit 0, 5

See SQL Fiddle with Demo