List of important internet cities

These are the locations of the internet root servers.  Some cities has multiple servers, so they are more important. The biggest surprise here is Auckland, which has 7 servers, while Sydney only has 3.

1. San Francisco, CA, US (14 sites)
2. Washington (11 sites)
3. Los Angeles, CA, US (8 sites)
4. Tokyo, JP (8 sites)
5. Auckland/Wellington, NZ (7 sites)
6. Paris, FR (7 sites)
7. Miami, FL, US (6 sites)
8. New York, NY, US (6 sites)
9. Amsterdam, NL (5 sites)
10. Beijing, CN (5 sites) 
11. Chicago, IL, US (5 sites)
12. Frankfurt, DE (5 sites)
13. Hong Kong, HK (5 sites)
14. Toronto, CA (5 sites)
15. Sao Paulo/Campinas, BR (5 sites)
16. Atlanta, GA, US (4 sites)
17. Brussels, BE (4 sites)
18. Cairo, EG (4 sites)
19. Johannesburg, ZA (4 sites)
20. London, UK (4 sites)
21. Perth, AU (4 sites)
22. Seoul, KR (4 sites)
23. Singapore, SG (4 sites)
24. Stockholm, SE (4 sites)
25. Oslo, NO (4 sites)
26. Brisbane, AU (3 sites)
27. Buenos Aires, AR (3 sites)
28. Geneva, CH (3 sites)
29. Helsinki, FI (3 sites)
30. Istanbul, Turkey (3 sites) 
31. Jakarta, ID (3 sites)
32. Kuala Lumpur, MY (3 sites)
33. Madrid, ES (3 sites)
34. Manila, PH (3 sites)
35. Milan, IT (3 sites) 
36. Moscow, RU (3 sites)
37. Nairobi, KE (3 sites)
38. Ottawa, Canada (3 sites)
39. Prague, CZ (3 sites)
40. Santiago de Chile, CL (3 sites)
41. Sydney, AU(3 sites) 
42. Taipei, TW (3 sites)
43. Turin, IT (3 sites)
44. Warsaw, PL (3 sites) 
45. Athens, GR (2 sites) 
46. Boston, MA, US (2 sites)
47. Brasilia, BR (2 sites)
48. Cape Town, ZA (2 sites) 
49. Dhaka, BD (2 sites) 
50. Doha, QA (2 sites)
51. Dublin, IE (2 sites)
52. Guam, GU, US (2 sites)
53. Honolulu, HI, US (2 sites) 
54. Lisbon, PT (2 sites)
55. Luxembourg City, LU (2 sites)
56. Monterrey, MX (2 sites)
57. Mumbai, IN (2 cities)
58. Munich, DE (2 sites)
59. Porto Alegre, BR (2 sites)
60. Quito, EC (2 sites)
61. Rhine/Ruhr, DE (2 sites)
62. Rome, IT (2 sites)
63. Anchorage, US (2 sites)
64. Seattle, WA, US (2 sites)
65. Sofia, BG (2 sites)
66. Vienna, AT (2 sites)
67. Abu Dhabi, AE
68. Al Muharraq, Bahrain 
69. Ankara, TR
70. Bangkok, TH 
71. Barcelona, ES 
72. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BR 
73. Berlin, DE 
74. Bogota, Colombia
75. Bucharest, RO
76. Budapest, HU
77. Caracas, VE 
78. Chennai, IN; 
79. Colombo, LK
80. Copenhagen, Denmark
81. Curitiba, Parana, BR 
82. Dakar, Senegal 
83. Dallas, TX, US
84. Dammam, SA
85. Dar es Salaam, TZ 
86. Delhi, IN
87. Denver, CO, US 
88. Dubai, AE
89. Edinburgh, UK; 
90. Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, BR 
91. Fribourg, CH
92. Hamburg, DE
93. Jacksonville, FL, US 
94. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 
95. Karachi, PK
96. Kathmandu, Nepal
97. Kaunas, LT
98. Kharkiv, Ukraine 
99. Kiev, Ukraine 
100. Lima (Callao), Peru
101. Londrina, Parana, BR
102. Lyon, France 
103. Malmo, Sweden 
104. Maputo, Mozambique
105. Marseille, FR
106. Montevideo, Uruguay 
107. Montreal, CA
108. Novosibirsk, RU
109. Odessa, Ukraine 
110. Osaka, JP 
111. Panama, PA
112. Philadelphia, PA, US 
113. Podgorica, ME
114. Portland, OR, US 
115. Poznan, PL
116. Reykjavik, IS
117. Riga, LV
118. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
119. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 
120. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
121. San Diego, CA, US 
122. San Juan, PR
123. Sanaa, Yemen 
124. Semey, Kazakhstan
125. St Denis, Reunion, France 
126. St. Maarten, AN 
127. Suva, Fiji
128. Tallinn, EE
129. Tel Aviv, IL
130. Thimphu, Bhutan
131. Vancouver, CA 
132. Yerevan, AM
133. Zurich, Switzerland

Source: http://www.root-servers.org/