Runner Up Cities

Any list is somewhat arbitrary.  Here are the runner up cities which could possibly stake a claim into the top 100 if they can knock out some other candidate:

United States and Canada: Austin, TX; Calgary, Alberta; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Edmonton, Alberta; Hampton Roads, VA; Honolulu, HI; Indianapolis, IN; Kansas City, MO; Las Vegas, NV; Milwaukee, WI; New Orleans, LA; Oklahoma City, OK; Orlando, FL; Ottawa, Canada; Pittsburgh, PA; Richmond, VA; Salt Lake City, UT; San Antonio, TX; San Juan, Puerto Rico

South America: Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Caracas, Venezuela;  Curitaba, Brazil; Montevideo, Uraguay; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador

Central America and Caribbean:  Guadalajara, Mexico; Guatemala City; Nassau, Bahamas; Panama City; San Jose, Costa Rica; San Salvador, El Salvador; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic;

Europe: Ankara, Turkey; Antwerp, Belgium; Athens, Greece; Belfast, UK; Belgrade, Serbia; Birmingham, UK; Bratislava, Slovakia; Bucharest, Romania; Budapest, Hungary; Cologne, Germany; Dusseldorf, Germany; Gibraltor; Gothenburg, Sweden; Kyiv, Ukraine; Leeds UK; Lisbon, Portugal; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Lyon, France; Manchester, UK; Malta; Monaco; Marseille, France; Nicosia, Cyprus;  Reykjavik, Iceland; Riga, Latvia; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Sofia, Bulgaria; St. Petersburg, Russia; Stuttgart, Germany; Talinn, Estonia; Valencia, Spain; Vilnius, Lithuania; Zagreb, Croatia

Africa: Accra, Ghana; Alexandria, Egypt; Casablanca; Durban, South Africa; Libreville, Gabon; Kinshasa, DR Congo; Lagos, Nigeria; Nairobi, Kenya; Port Luis, Mauritius; Tunis, Tunisia;

Middle East: Amman, Jordan; Beirut, Lebanon; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Kuwait; Muscat, Oman

Asia: Adelaide, Australia; Ahmedebad, India; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Brisbane, Australia; Chengdu, China; Colombo, Sri Lanka;  Daegu-Gyeongbuk, South Korea; Dhaka, Pakistan; Fukuoka, Japan; Gold Coast City, Australia; Hanoi, Vietnam; Incheon, South Korea; Islamabad, Pakistan; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Lahore, Pakistan; Macau, China; Nagoya, Japan; Penang Island, Malaysia; Perth, Australia; Pune, India; Shenyang, China; Surat, India; Wuhan, China

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Here is another list, partially overlapping with this, of important cities that have not been included in the top 125:

Baku, Azerbaijan
Astana, Kazakhstan
Sacramento, CA
Kansas City, MO
Brakin (Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa,DR-Congo)
Durban, South Africa
Brunei
Nairobi, Kenya
San Antonio, Texas
Orlando, FL
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Las Vegas, NV
Budapest, Hungary
Panama City, Panama
Recife, Brazil
Wuhan, China
Gold Coast City, Australia
Daegu, South Korea
Incheon, South Korea
Penang Island, Malaysia
Perth, Australia
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Adelaide, Australia
Curitiba, Brazil
Monaco

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Partial list of cities that have not been included in top 200
Wellington, Adelaide, Putrajaya (Malaysia), Astana, Lausanne (Switzerland), Bonn, Turin
Addis Ababa, Abuja
Columbus, OH; Edmonton; Hampton Roads, VA; Indianapolis, IN; Milwaukee, WI; Oklahoma City, OK; Richmond, VA; Salt Lake City;
Kingston, Jamaica; San Juan, Puerto Rico, Quito
Katowice, Poland [pop. 2.7 million]