Toplist Global Cities 2017

All metropolises connect people and cultures – but not all to the same extent. The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute has examined the 68 most important cities in the world to measure how well they fulfil their networking role in global terms. The first thing to note: Europe is ahead.
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Top Ten in the Global City Ranking

Rank City Country AT/GaWC*
1 Paris
FR
3
2 Berlin
DE
18
3 Los Angeles
US
25
4 London
UK
4
5 New York City
US
2
6 Chicago
US
15
7 Madrid
ES
48
8 Tokyo
JP
23
9 Brussels
BE
28
10 Toronto
CA
20

AT/GAWC* Ranking places in the A.T. Kearney Global City Index or in the GaWC Ranking.

Rank City Country AT/GaWC*
11 Buenos Aires
AR
Alpha-
12 Moscow
RU
10
13 Warsaw
PL
31
14 Beijing
CN
4
15 Mexico City
MX
Alpha
16 Barcelona
ES
37
16 Dublin
IE
40
16 Istanbul
TR
Alpha
19 Sydney
AU
13
20 Copenhagen
DK
21
21 Stockholm
SE
9
22 Seoul
KR
38
23 Miami
US
39
24 Frankfurt
DE
30
25 Tel Aviv
IL
43
26 Hong Kong
CN
Alpha+
27 Washington, D.C.
US
19
28 Lisbon
PT
Alpha-
29 Melbourne
AU
6
29 Prag
CZ
27
31 Phoenix
US
34
31 Vancouver
CA
24
33 Bangkok
TH
Alpha-
34 Philadelphia
US
36
35 Montreal
CA
32
36 Munich
DE
7
37 Milan
IT
33
38 Bogotá
CO
Alpha-
38 Jakarta
ID
Alpha
38 Rome
IT
49
41 Singapore
SG
11
42 Shenzhen
CN
47
43 Atlanta
US
17
43 Osaka
JP
41
45 Vienna
AT
29
46 Boston
US
5
47 Manila
PH
Alpha-
48 Houston
US
8
48 San Francisco
US
1
50 Dallas
US
26
50 Shanghai
CN
Alpha+
52 Amsterdam
NL
16
52 Guangzhou
CN
Alpha-
54 Taipei
CN
44
55 Santiago
CL
50
56 Mumbai
IN
Alpha
57 São Paulo
BR
Alpha
58 St. Petersburg
RU
35
59 Düsseldorf
DE
22
60 Luxembourg
LU
Alpha-
61 Geneva
CH
14
62 Nagoya
JP
42
62 New Delhi
IN
Alpha-
64 Johannesburg
ZA
Alpha
64 Kuala Lumpur
MY
Alpha
66 Dubai
AE
46
67 Riyadh
SA
Alpha-
68 Zürich
CH
12