The amount in brackets roughly corresponds to nominal GDP, although not exactly. It could be considered a measure of relative importance. Japanese cities have all been down-graded, but they are still important, and there are 7 on this list.
1. Tokyo Metropolis [870]
2. New York (ex. NJ) [800]
3. London [750]
4. Paris [740]
5. Los Angeles [560]
6. Chicago [530]
7. Sao Paulo [450]
8. Washington DC (ex. Baltimore) [420]
9. Houston [380]
10. Dallas/Ft. Worth [375]
11. Shanghai [350]
12. Philadelphia [345]
13. Seoul [340]
14. Guangzhou/Foshan [330]
15. No. New Jersey [325]
16. Osaka, Japan [320]
17. Boston [315]
18. Sydney [310]
19. San Francisco/Oakland, CA [305]
20. Nagoya/Chukyo, Japan [300]
21. Toronto [297]
22. Yokohama/Kanagawa (Tokyo), Japan [295]
23. Gyeonggi (Seoul) [290]
24. Beijing [285]
25. Atlanta [275]
26. Melbourne [270]
27. Mexico City [265]
28. Singapore [260]
29. Miami [255]
30. Hong Kong [250]
31. Seattle [235]
32. Moscow [230]
33. Ruhr, Germany [210]
34. Saitama (Tokyo) [205]
35. Rio de Janeiro [200]
36. Montreal [199]
37. Buenos Aires [197]
38. Shenzhen [195]
39. Minneapolis [193]
40. Phoenix [192]
41. Detroit [190]
42. Tianjin [187]
43. Chiba (Tokyo) [185]
44. Frankfurt, Germany [184]
45. Suzhou [182]
46. Orange County, CA [180]
47. Taipei, Taiwan [178]
48. Milan [177]
49. San Diego, CA [172]
50. San Jose, CA [170]
51. Madrid, Spain [165]
52. Chongqing [160]
53. Denver (ex. Boulder) [158]
54. Fukuoka, Japan [155]
55. Riyadh [150]
56. Berlin [145]
57. Istanbul [140]
58. Brisbane [135]
59. Rome [130]
60. Hangzhou, China [125]
61. Barcelona [120]
There are a lot of cities that think they are important, but they just aren't, not enough to make this list anyways. Cities that just do not qualify, the runner-ups, are below.
- Abu Dhabi
- Baltimore
- Bangkok
- Brussels
- Cairo
- Charlotte, NC
- Copenhagen
- Delhi
- Doha, Qatar
- Dubai
- Dublin
- Hiroshima
- Johannesburg
- Karachi
- Kuala Lumpur
- Kuwait City
- Lisbon
- Mumbai
- Oslo
- Perth
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Portland, OR
- Santiago
- St. Louis, MO
- Stockholm
- Tampa, FL
- Vancouver
- Vienna
- Wuhan
- Zurich
Update:
Denver has less than 3 million (2.6 million) in its metro area. San Jose has only 1.9 million. The GDP of Hangzhou is about 595 billion yen, which may be as little as $88 billion/year. So these should be removed from the list.
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