Sunday, May 27, 2012

Top Cities, version 19

  1. Tokyo 1584 [s/b Tokyo $923 bn; Yokohama $320 bn; Saitama $211 bn; Chiba $197 bn]
  2. New York 1407 [s/b $1281 bn]
  3. Los Angeles 882 [s/b Los Angeles $556 bn; Orange County $180 bn; Riverside-San Bernadino $110 bn; Ventura $36bn]
  4. Osaka (552, was 771) [a better number is $389 bn]
  5. Paris 717 (EU 552) [another source says $764 bn nominal]
  6. London 606 (EU 466) [another source says $752 bn nominal ]
  7. Seoul 601 [s/b Seoul $343 bn; Gyeonggi $289 bn; Incheon $71 bn]
  8. Washington/Baltimore 570 [s/b Washington $383 bn; Baltimore $145 bn]
  9. Chicago 532 [agreed]
  10. San Francisco/San Jose 515 [s/b San Francisco/Oakland $296 bn; San Jose $168 bn]
  11. Rhine-Ruhr 430 (EU 331) [s/b Ruhr $203 bn; Dusseldorf $105 bn; Cologne $96 bn]
  12. Shanghai/Suzhou 410 
  13. Philadelphia 404 [s/b $347 bn]
  14. Nagoya 386 [a better number is $372 bn]
  15. Houston 385 [agreed]
  16. Boston 380 [s/b $314 bn]
  17. Dallas 374
  18. Randstad 352
  19. Milan 313 (EU 241) [s/b $177 bn]
  20. Sydney 308
  21. Toronto 292
  22. Melbourne 275
  23. Atlanta 272
  24. Sao Paulo 270
  25. Singapore 260
  26. Miami 258
  27. Beijing 248
  28. Hong Kong 243
  29. Guangzhou/Foshan 243
  30. Mexico City 237
  31. Seattle 231
  32. Moscow 225
  33. Buenos Aires 225
  34. Madrid 215 
  35. Abu Dhabi 204
  36. Rio de Janeiro 201
  37. Minneapolis 200
  38. Montreal 199
  39. Detroit 198
  40. Phoenix 191 
  41. Frankfurt 185 (EU 142) 
  42. Tianjin (near Beijing) 178
  43. Brussels 178
  44. Taipei 178
  45. Barcelona 177
  46. Kuwait City 177
  47. Denver 176
  48. San Diego 172
  49. Chongqing 159
  50. Riyadh 154
  51. Munich-Augsburg 149
  52. Naples 149
  53. Shenzhen 146
  54. Doha, Qatar 145
  55. Berlin 142 (EU 109)
  56. Istanbul 141
  57. Tampa/St. Petersburg/Sarasota, FL 138
  58. Brisbane 138
  59. Oslo 136
  60. Cleveland/Akron, OH 134
  61. Cincinnati/Dayton, OH 134
  62. St. Louis, MO 130
  63. Portland, OR 125
  64. Lisbon 122 (EU 98)
  65. Vancouver, Canada 121
  66. Rome 120 [s/b $130 bn]
  67. Stockholm 120
  68. Perth 117
  69. Pittsburgh 116
  70. Copenhagen 116
  71. Sapporo 116
  72. Fukuoka 115
  73. Charlotte 114
  74. Hamburg 114
  75. Hangzhou (south of Shanghai) 111
  76. Wuxi (near Shanghai) 108
  77. Kansas City 106
  78. Indianapolis 105
  79. Orlando 104
  80. Qingdao (near Beijing) 104
  81. Dubai/Sharjah 103
  82. Birmingham, UK 103
  83. Monterrey 102
  84. Vienna 102 
  85. Mumbai 100
  86. Salt Lake City/Ogden/Provo 98
  87. Zurich 97
  88. Nanjing (near Shanghai) 97
  89. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC 95 
  90. Athens 94
  91. Brasilia 94
  92. Sacramento 93
  93. Colombus, OH 93
  94. Tel Aviv/Jaffa 92
  95. Las Vegas 90
  96. Jakarta, Indonesia 89
  97. Dublin 89
  98. Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA 88
  99. Santiago, Chile 88
  100. Leeds, UK 88
  101. Stuttgart 87
  102. Busan, South Korea 87
  103. Austin, TX 86
  104. Tehran, Iran 86
  105. Manchester, UK 85
  106. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 85
  107. Milwaukee, WI 85
  108. Manila 84
  109. Johannesburg/East Rand/West Rand 83
  110. Wuhan, China (central China) 82
  111. San Antonio, TX 82
  112. Chengdu, China (near Chongqing) 82
  113. Dalian, China (near Beijing) 81
  114. Nashville, TN 81
  115. Virginia Beach/Norfolk, VA 81
  116. Shenyang, China (near Beijing) 80
  117. Bangkok 75
  118. New Orleans 71
Ranked by nominal GDP.
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Update: here is a better source for US GDP figures

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