World cities map 2010
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
Alpha+
- Hong Kong
- Paris
- Singapore
- Tokyo
- Shanghai
- Chicago
- Dubai
- Sydney
Alpha
- Milan
- Beijing
- Toronto
- Sao Paulo
- Madrid
- Mumbai
- Los Angeles
- Moscow
- Frankfurt
- Mexico City
- Amsterdam
- Buenos Aires
- Kuala Lumpur
- Seoul
- Brussels
- Jakarta
- San Francisco
- Washington DC
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- Miami
- Dublin
- Melbourne
- Zurich
- New Delhi
- Munich
- Istanbul
- Boston
- Warsaw
- Dallas
- Vienna
- Atlanta
- Barcelona
- Bangkok
- Taipei
- Santiago
- Lisbon
- Philadelphia
- Johannesburg
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- Düsseldorf
- Stockholm
- Prague
- Montreal
- Rome
- Hamburg
- Manila
- Houston
- Berlin
- Athens
- Tel Aviv
- Bangalore
- Copenhagen
- Cairo
- Bogota
- Vancouver
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- Budapest
- Beirut
- Luxembourg
- Guangzhou
- Seattle
- Caracas
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Auckland
- Oslo
- Kiev
- Chennai
- Bucharest
- Manchester
- Karachi
- Lima
- Cape Town
- Riyadh
- Montevideo
- Minneapolis
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- Abu Dhabi
- Nicosia
- Birmingham (UK)
- Rio de Janeiro
- Brisbane
- Geneva
- Calcutta
- Detroit
- Denver
- Monterrey
- Bratislava
- Port Louis
- Casablanca
- Manama
- Stuttgart
- Sofia
- Cologne
- St Louis
- Helsinki
- Panama City
- San Diego
- Lagos
- Perth
- Shenzen
- Cleveland
- San Juan
- Calgary
- Guatemala City
- Osaka
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- Glasgow
- Nairobi
- Bristol
- Hanoi
- Cincinnati
- Charlotte
- Antwerp
- Doha
- Lahore
- Baltimore
- Jeddah
- Edinburgh
- Amman
- Hyderabad (India)
- Zagreb
- Adelaide
- Kuwait
- Portland
- Belgrade
- San José (Costa Rica)
- Tunis
- San Jose (CA)
- Riga
Gamma
- Valencia (Spain)
- Kansas City
- Phoenix
- Almaty
- Guadalajara
- Lyon
- Quito
- St Petersburg
- Leeds
- Santo Domingo
- San Salvador
- Vilnius
- Rotterdam
- Tampa
- Columbus
- Indianapolis
- Pittsburgh
- Edmonton
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- Tallinn
- Pune
- Porto
- Porto Alegre
- Orlando
- Gothenburg
- Marseille
- Ottawa
- Colombo
- Ljubljana
- Tegucigalpa
- Richmond
- Islamabad
- Muscat
- Durban
- Austin
- Belfast
- Guayaquil
- Nagoya
- Turin
- Southampton
- Milwaukee
- Wellington
- Curitiba
- Accra
- George Town (Cayman Islands)
High Sufficiency
- Jacksonville
- Leipzig
- Raleigh
- Strasbourg
- Tijuana
- Brazilia
- Salt Lake City
- Ankara
- Pretoria
- Tianjin
- Bilbao
- Ahmedabad
- Las Vegas
- Belo Horizonte
- Liverpool
- Malmö
- Nürnberg
- Canberra
- Wroclaw
- Queretaro
- Nassau
- Utrecht
- Bologna
- Newcastle
- La Paz
- Asuncion
- Hartford
- Seville
- Lille
- Krakow
- Nashville
- Salvador
- Algiers
- Dresden
- The Hague
- Poznan
Sufficiency
- Florence
- Medellin
- Winnipeg
- Nantes
- Sacramento
- Toulouse
- Recife
- Dar es Salaam
- Kaohsiung
- Managua
- Puebla
- Surabaya
- Hamilton
- Christchurch
- Bordeaux
- Tulsa
- Dakar
- Halifax
- San Antonio
- Johor Baharu
- Tirana
- Cardiff
- Quebec
- Lausanne
- Baku
- Luanda
- Bremen
- Aberdeen
- Birmingham (AL)
- Dhaka
- Nanjing
- Chihuahua
- Hannover
- Naples
- Providence
- Penang
- Omaha
- Chengdu
- Abuja
- Port of Spain
- Lusaka
- Arhus
- Leon
- Fukuoka
- Honolulu
- Genoa
- Kampala
- Hangzhou
- Palo Alto
- Cordoba
- Abidjan
- Tbilisi
- Qingdao
- Skopje
- Campinas
- Rochester
- Windhoek
- Memphis
- Nottingham
- Ciudad Juarez
- Dalian
- Kyoto
- Alexandria
- Sheffield
- Santa Cruz
- Izmir
- Gaborone
- Cali
- Dortmund
- Norwich
- New Orleans
- Valencia (Venezuela)
- Cebu
- Harare
- Jerusalem
- Basel
- Macao
- Montpellier
- Minsk
- Linz
- Haifa
- Douala
- Labuan
- Nice