World cities map 2012
Results are derived from the activities of 175 leading firms providing advanced producer services across 526 cities worldwide (i.e. the input is 175 x 526 = 92,050 pieces of information). The results should be interpreted as indicating the importance of cities as nodes in the world city network (i.e. enabling corporate globalisation).
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- London
- New York
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- Hong Kong
- Paris
- Singapore
- Shanghai
- Tokyo
- Beijing
- Sydney
- Dubai
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- Chicago
- Mumbai
- Milan
- Moscow
- Sao Paulo
- Frankfurt
- Toronto
- Los Angeles
- Madrid
- Mexico City
- Amsterdam
- Kuala Lumpur
- Brussels
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- Seoul
- Johannesburg
- Buenos Aires
- Vienna
- San Francisco
- Istanbul
- Jakarta
- Zurich
- Warsaw
- Washington DC
- Melbourne
- New Delhi
- Miami
- Barcelona
- Bangkok
- Boston
- Dublin
- Taipei
- Munich
- Stockholm
- Prague
- Atlanta
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- Bangalore
- Lisbon
- Copenhagen
- Santiago
- Guangzhou
- Rome
- Cairo
- Dallas
- Hamburg
- Düsseldorf
- Athens
- Manila
- Montreal
- Philadelphia
- Tel Aviv
- Lima
- Budapest
- Berlin
- Cape Town
- Luxembourg
- Houston
- Kiev
- Bucharest
- Beirut
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- Ho Chi Minh City
- Bogota
- Auckland
- Montevideo
- Caracas
- Riyadh
- Vancouver
- Chennai
- Manchester
- Oslo
- Brisbane
- Helsinki
- Karachi
- Doha
- Casablanca
- Stuttgart
- Rio de Janeiro
- Geneva
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- Guatemala City
- Lyon
- Panama City
- San José (Costa Rica)
- Bratislava
- Minneapolis
- Tunis
- Nairobi
- Cleveland
- Lagos
- Abu Dhabi
- Seattle
- Hanoi
- Sofia
- Riga
- Port Louis
- Detroit
- Calgary
- Denver
- Perth
- Calcutta
- San Diego
- Amman
- Antwerp
- Manama
- Birmingham (UK)
- Nicosia
- Quito
- Rotterdam
- Belgrade
- Monterrey
- Almaty
- Shenzhen
- Kuwait City
- Hyderabad
- Edinburgh
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- Zagreb
- Lahore
- St Petersburg
- Jeddah
- Durban
- Santo Domingo
- St Louis
- Islamabad
- Guayaquil
- Baltimore
- San Salvador
- Cologne
- Phoenix
- Adelaide
- Bristol
- Charlotte (NC)
- George Town (Cayman Islands)
- Osaka
- Tampa
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- Glasgow
- San Juan
- Marseille
- Guadalajara
- Leeds
- Baku
- Vilnius
- Tallinn
- Raleigh (NC)
- Ankara
- Belfast
- San Jose (CA)
- Colombo
- Valencia (Spain)
- Cincinnati
- Milwaukee
- Muscat
- Ljubljana
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- Nantes
- Tianjin
- Accra
- Algiers
- Gothenburg
- Porto
- Columbus (OH)
- Utrecht
- Orlando
- Ahmedabad
- Asuncion
- Kansas City
- Seville
- Turin
- Dar es Salaam
- Portland
- Krakow
- Managua
- Pune
- Leipzig
- Malmö
- La Paz
High Sufficiency
- Southampton
- Indianapolis
- Porto Alegre
- Strasbourg
- Gaborone
- Chengdu
- Richmond (VA)
- Pittsburgh (PA)
- Tijuana
- Austin
- Qingdao
- Nassau
- Tegucigalpa
- Lille
- Curitiba
- The Hague
- Hartford (CT)
- Wroclaw
- Edmonton
- Lausanne
- Dhaka
- Nürnberg
- Lusaka
- Kampala
- Bilbao
- Douala
- Abidjan
- Salt Lake City
- Hangzhou
- Poznan
- Wellington
- Ottawa
- Dakar
- Queretaro
- Dresden
- Newcastle
- Skopje
- Nanjing
- Tirana
- Chongqing
- Belo Horizonte
Sufficiency
- Florence
- Pretoria
- Toulouse
- Arhus
- San Antonio
- Bremen
- Nashville (TN)
- Bologna
- Canberra
- Nagoya
- Sacramento
- Providence (RI)
- Luanda
- Dalian
- Liverpool
- Jacksonville
- Puebla
- Kaohsiung
- Minsk
- Linz
- Tbilisi
- Las Vegas
- Maputo
- Harare
- Cardiff
- Xiamen
- Birmingham (AL)
- Leon
- Port of Spain
- Penang
- Memphis (TN)
- Aberdeen
- Abuja
- Hannover
- Surabaya
- Bern
- Halifax
- Ciudad Juarez
- Alexandria
- Bordeaux
- Phnom Penh
- Winnipeg
- Cali
- Greensboro
- Genoa
- Medellin
- Santa Cruz
- Montpellier
- Cordoba
- Wuhan
- Graz
- Jerusalem
- New Orleans
- Rochester (NY)
- Nice
- Busan
- Windhoek
- Dammam
- Christchurch
- Recife
- Tashkent
- Hamilton
- Reykjavik
- Naples
- Tulsa
- Ludwigshafen
- Kingston
- Brasilia
- Johor Bahru
- Xi’an
- Macao
- Fukuoka
- Sheffield
- Izmir
- Nottingham
- Des Moines
- Campinas
- Chisinau
- Haifa
- Madison (WI)
- Yerevan
- Cebu
- Labuan
- Salvador