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Global Cities on a World Map
Name the world's "alpha global cities" according to the Globalization and World Cities Study Group (2024).
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| First submitted | October 21, 2016 |
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KL is an out-and-out metropolis, Athens isn't.
So that might be why
I noticed however you have spelled it "Sau" instead of ''Sao'' which does not work.
I guess the same with Shenzhen, though it probably gets lumped in with Hong Kong.
(And hey, isn't every city on the globe? ;) )
I'm not good with usa cities
It seems like it's hard to determine what makes a city important. I'd like to look past population, and quotas.
On the same note, why is Lisbon on the same tier as San Francisco?
I guess tourism and golden visas are just as important as technology which is disrupting the whole world. Way too Eurocentric.
San Francisco should be Alpha+ and Lisbon (and Luxembourg) off the list entirely.
The total market capitalization of the entire Portuguese stock market is $30 billion. That's less than 1% of the value of Google alone.
As lovely as Lisbon is to visit, if it vanished tomorrow, the effect on world trade would be essentially nil.
But most of the things they list don't even have Lisbon showing up in their visuals. The only one that I could see where Lisbon was ranked highly (or even at all) was this one: https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980220080011 which I couldn't view entirely because it was behind a paywall.
And to be fair to the list, Moscow is on the same level as Naples, Cologne, The Hague, Brasilia, Abuja, Alexandria, Kolkata, Ankara, Liverpool, and others that are perfectly respectable and recognizable cities, so this may be more about Blantyre and George Town doing better than we would have expected than about Moscow being too low.
As this is a list of cities of importance to their global economic importance, Moscow's exclusion is no surprise. Russia has become very isolated.
To say that Moscow is more important to the world economy than Toronto or Bangkok or Munich not an accurate reflection of Moscow's standing in the world currently.