The Global City Ranking in Detail
The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute has calculated the most connected cities in the digital world. We have established how connected the top 68 cities are online: on Wikipedia, Twitter, and the world wide web as accessed by Google.
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The right-hand column in the table below shows the final placement of each city by the length of the bar; the longer the bar, the better-placed in the ranking. The three sections within the bar visualise which places the cities occupy on Twitter (blue), Wikipedia (black) and the web (red).
| Rank | City |
Twitter – Wikipedia – Web
Composition
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris | |
| 2 | Berlin | |
| 3 | Los Angeles | |
| 4 | London | |
| 5 | New York City | |
| 6 | Chicago | |
| 7 | Madrid | |
| 8 | Tokyo | |
| 9 | Brussels | |
| 10 | Toronto | |
| 11 | Buenos Aires | |
| 12 | Moscow | |
| 13 | Warsaw | |
| 14 | Beijing | |
| 15 | Mexico City | |
| 16 | Barcelona | |
| 16 | Dublin | |
| 16 | Istanbul | |
| 19 | Sydney | |
| 20 | Copenhagen | |
| 21 | Stockholm | |
| 22 | Seoul | |
| 23 | Miami | |
| 24 | Frankfurt | |
| 25 | Tel Aviv | |
| 26 | Hong Kong | |
| 27 | Washington, D.C. | |
| 28 | Lisbon | |
| 29 | Melbourne | |
| 29 | Prague | |
| 31 | Phoenix | |
| 31 | Vancouver | |
| 33 | Bangkok | |
| 34 | Philadelphia | |
| 35 | Montreal | |
| 36 | Munich | |
| 37 | Milan | |
| 38 | Bogotà | |
| 38 | Jakarta | |
| 38 | Rome | |
| 41 | Singapore | |
| 42 | Shenzhen | |
| 43 | Atlanta | |
| 43 | Osaka | |
| 45 | Vienna | |
| 46 | Boston | |
| 47 | Manila | |
| 48 | Houston | |
| 48 | San Francisco | |
| 50 | Dallas | |
| 50 | Shanghai | |
| 52 | Amsterdam | |
| 52 | Guangzhou | |
| 54 | Taipei | |
| 55 | Santiago | |
| 56 | Mumbai | |
| 57 | São Paulo | |
| 58 | St. Petersburg | |
| 59 | Düsseldorf | |
| 60 | Luxembourg | |
| 61 | Geneva | |
| 62 | Nagoya | |
| 62 | New Delhi | |
| 64 | Johannesburg | |
| 64 | Kuala Lumpur | |
| 66 | Dubai | |
| 67 | Riyadh | |
| 68 | Zürich |
