Innovation Cities™ Index 2015 : Global – Innovation Cities™ Index | City Rankings

City innovation economy classifications and rankings, 2015.

World’s largest city classification and global ranking with 500 benchmark cities classified, and all cities analyst ranked this year. Measuring each cities potential as an innovation economy at the current time, since 2007.

Based on 2thinknow analyst interpretation of 162 city indicators from 2thinknow City Benchmarking Data set.

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Rank City Name State Province Country Class. Score Region Sub Region
1 London United Kingdom 1 NEXUS 57 EUROPE EUROPE
2 San Francisco – San Jose California United States 1 NEXUS 56 AMERICAS USA
3 Vienna Austria 1 NEXUS 56 EUROPE EUROPE
4 Boston Massachusetts United States 1 NEXUS 56 AMERICAS USA
5 Seoul South Korea 1 NEXUS 55 ASIA ASIA
6 New York New York United States 1 NEXUS 55 AMERICAS USA
7 Amsterdam Netherlands 1 NEXUS 55 EUROPE EUROPE
8 Singapore Singapore 1 NEXUS 54 ASIA ASIA
9 Paris France 1 NEXUS 54 EUROPE EUROPE
10 Tokyo Tokyo Japan 1 NEXUS 54 ASIA JAPAN
11 Toronto Canada 1 NEXUS 54 AMERICAS CANADA
12 Munich Germany 1 NEXUS 54 EUROPE EUROPE
13 Seattle Washington United States 1 NEXUS 54 AMERICAS USA
14 Berlin Germany 1 NEXUS 54 EUROPE EUROPE
15 Copenhagen Denmark 1 NEXUS 54 EUROPE EUROPE
16 Chicago Illinois United States 1 NEXUS 54 AMERICAS USA
17 Stockholm Sweden 1 NEXUS 53 EUROPE EUROPE
18 Sydney NSW Australia 1 NEXUS 53 ASIA ANZ
19 Tel Aviv Israel 1 NEXUS 53 EUROPE EUROPE
20 Shanghai Shanghai China 1 NEXUS 53 ASIA CHINA
21 Los Angeles California United States 1 NEXUS 53 AMERICAS USA
22 Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong 1 NEXUS 53 ASIA CHINA
23 Dubai United Arab Emirates 1 NEXUS 52 EMERGING MID-EAST
24 Stuttgart Germany 1 NEXUS 52 EUROPE EUROPE
25 Helsinki Finland 1 NEXUS 52 EUROPE EUROPE
26 Manchester United Kingdom 1 NEXUS 52 EUROPE EUROPE
27 Barcelona Spain 1 NEXUS 52 EUROPE EUROPE
28 Oslo Norway 1 NEXUS 52 EUROPE EUROPE
29 Washington DC District of Columbia United States 1 NEXUS 52 AMERICAS USA
30 Lyon France 1 NEXUS 52 EUROPE EUROPE
31 Hamburg Germany 1 NEXUS 52 EUROPE EUROPE
32 Osaka Osaka Japan 1 NEXUS 51 ASIA JAPAN
33 Melbourne VIC Australia 1 NEXUS 51 ASIA ANZ
34 Leipzig Germany 1 NEXUS 51 EUROPE EUROPE
35 Vancouver Canada 1 NEXUS 51 AMERICAS CANADA
36 Kyoto Kyoto Japan 1 NEXUS 51 ASIA JAPAN
37 Frankfurt Germany 1 NEXUS 51 EUROPE EUROPE
38 Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States 1 NEXUS 51 AMERICAS USA
39 Austin Texas United States 1 NEXUS 50 AMERICAS USA
40 Beijing Beijing China 1 NEXUS 50 ASIA CHINA
41 Montréal Canada 1 NEXUS 50 AMERICAS CANADA
42 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates 1 NEXUS 50 EMERGING MID-EAST
43 Raleigh-Durham North Carolina United States 1 NEXUS 50 AMERICAS USA
44 Dallas-Fort Worth Texas United States 1 NEXUS 50 AMERICAS USA
45 Moscow Russia 1 NEXUS 50 EUROPE RUSSIA
46 Brussels Belgium 1 NEXUS 50 EUROPE EUROPE
47 Miami Florida United States 1 NEXUS 50 AMERICAS USA
48 St Petersburg Russia 2 HUB 49 EUROPE RUSSIA
49 Milan Italy 2 HUB 49 EUROPE EUROPE
50 San Diego California United States 2 HUB 49 AMERICAS USA
51 Houston Texas United States 2 HUB 49 AMERICAS USA
52 Taipei Taiwan 2 HUB 49 ASIA CHINA
53 Orlando Florida United States 2 HUB 49 AMERICAS USA
54 Marseille France 2 HUB 49 EUROPE EUROPE
55 Düsseldorf Germany 2 HUB 49 EUROPE EUROPE
56 Madrid Spain 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
57 Brisbane QLD Australia 2 HUB 48 ASIA ANZ
58 Rome Italy 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
59 Cologne Germany 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
60 Portland Oregon United States 2 HUB 48 AMERICAS USA
61 Dublin Ireland 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
62 Québec Canada 2 HUB 48 AMERICAS CANADA
63 Prague Czech Republic 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
64 Bilbao Spain 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
65 Atlanta Georgia United States 2 HUB 48 AMERICAS USA
66 Kobe Hyogo Japan 2 HUB 48 ASIA JAPAN
67 Denver Colorado United States 2 HUB 48 AMERICAS USA
68 Edinburgh United Kingdom 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
69 Minneapolis-St Paul Minnesota United States 2 HUB 48 AMERICAS USA
70 Bordeaux France 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
71 Strasbourg France 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
72 Zürich Switzerland 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
73 Budapest Hungary 2 HUB 48 EUROPE EUROPE
74 Mumbai Maharashtra India 2 HUB 47 ASIA INDIA
75 Shenzhen Guangdong China 2 HUB 47 ASIA CHINA
76 Rotterdam Netherlands 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
77 Kansas City KO/MO United States 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS USA
78 Nice France 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
79 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS USA
80 Karlsruhe Germany 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
81 Newark New Jersey United States 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS USA
82 Geneva Switzerland 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
83 Richmond Virginia United States 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS USA
84 The Hague Netherlands 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
85 Toulouse France 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
86 Warsaw Poland 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
87 Calgary Alberta Canada 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS CANADA
88 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 2 HUB 47 ASIA ASIA
89 Dresden Germany 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
90 Busan South Korea 2 HUB 47 ASIA ASIA
91 Nantes France 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
92 Hannover Germany 2 HUB 47 EUROPE EUROPE
93 Santa Ana-Anaheim California United States 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS USA
94 Tampa Florida United States 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS USA
95 Istanbul Turkey 2 HUB 47 EMERGING MID-EAST
96 Incheon South Korea 2 HUB 47 ASIA ASIA
97 Baltimore Maryland United States 2 HUB 47 AMERICAS USA
98 Auckland New Zealand 2 HUB 46 ASIA ANZ
99 Oporto Portugal 2 HUB 46 EUROPE EUROPE
100 Glasgow United Kingdom 2 HUB 46 EUROPE EUROPE
101 Belgrade Serbia 2 HUB 46 EUROPE EUROPE
102 São Paulo Brazil 2 HUB 46 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
103 Bristol United Kingdom 2 HUB 46 EUROPE EUROPE
104 Torino Italy 2 HUB 46 EUROPE EUROPE
105 Montpellier France 2 HUB 46 EUROPE EUROPE
106 Fukuoka Fukoaka Japan 2 HUB 46 ASIA JAPAN
107 Ann Arbor Michigan United States 2 HUB 46 AMERICAS USA
108 Edmonton Canada 2 HUB 46 AMERICAS CANADA
109 Las Vegas Nevada United States 2 HUB 46 AMERICAS USA
110 Providence Rhode Island United States 2 HUB 46 AMERICAS USA
111 Eindhoven North Brabant Netherlands 2 HUB 46 EUROPE EUROPE
112 Tallahassee Florida United States 2 HUB 46 AMERICAS USA
113 Boulder Colorado United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
114 Wellington New Zealand 2 HUB 45 ASIA ANZ
115 Lisbon Portugal 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
116 Mannheim-Heidelberg Germany 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
117 Nuremberg Germany 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
118 Manchester New Hampshire United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
119 Antwerp Belgium 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
120 Aachen Germany 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
121 Nanjing Jiangsu China 2 HUB 45 ASIA CHINA
122 Salt Lake City Utah United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
123 Essen Germany 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
124 Boise Idaho United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
125 Cape Town South Africa 2 HUB 45 EMERGING AFRICA
126 Bonn Germany 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
127 Dortmund Germany 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
128 Rochester New York United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
129 Oakland California United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
130 Lille France 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
131 Liverpool United Kingdom 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
132 Luxembourg Luxembourg 2 HUB 45 EUROPE EUROPE
133 Bangkok Thailand 2 HUB 45 ASIA ASIA
134 Charlotte North Carolina United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
135 St Louis Missouri United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
136 Des Moines Iowa United States 2 HUB 45 AMERICAS USA
137 Buffalo New York United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
138 San Antonio Texas United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
139 Rio De Janeiro Brazil 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
140 Riverside California United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
141 Colorado Springs Colorado United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
142 Honolulu Hawaii United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
143 Ventura-Oxnard California United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
144 Charlottesville Virginia United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
145 Berkeley California United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
146 Albany New York United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
147 Medellin Colombia 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
148 Utrecht Netherlands 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
149 Birmingham United Kingdom 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
150 Graz Austria 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
151 Linz Austria 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
152 Reims France 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
153 Jacksonville Florida United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
154 Ljubljana Slovenia 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
155 Rennes France 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
156 Perth WA Australia 3 NODE 44 ASIA ANZ
157 Bremen Germany 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
158 Norfolk-Virginia Beach Virginia United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
159 Sacramento California United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
160 Basel Switzerland 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
161 Odense Southern Denmark Denmark 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
162 Kiel Germany 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
163 Oklahoma City Oklahoma United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
164 Yokohama Kanagawa Japan 3 NODE 44 ASIA JAPAN
165 Bochum North Rhine-Westphalia Germany 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
166 Duisburg North Rhine-Westphalia Germany 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
167 Savannah Georgia United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
168 Daegu South Korea 3 NODE 44 ASIA ASIA
169 Nagoya Aichi Japan 3 NODE 44 ASIA JAPAN
170 Fort Lauderdale Florida United States 3 NODE 44 AMERICAS USA
171 Jerusalem Israel 3 NODE 44 EUROPE EUROPE
172 Hartford Connecticut United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
173 Saint-Étienne Rhône-Alpes France 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
174 Salzburg Austria 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
175 Belfast United Kingdom 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
176 Leuven Flemish Brabant Belgium 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
177 Rouen Haute-Normandie France 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
178 Phoenix Arizona United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
179 Cleveland Ohio United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
180 Milwaukee Wisconsin United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
181 Nashville Tennessee United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
182 Lucerne Switzerland 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
183 Malmö Scania Sweden 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
184 Suzhou Jiangsu China 3 NODE 43 ASIA CHINA
185 Bangalore Karnataka India 3 NODE 43 ASIA INDIA
186 Adelaide SA Australia 3 NODE 43 ASIA ANZ
187 Gold Coast QLD Australia 3 NODE 43 ASIA ANZ
188 Buenos Aires Argentina 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
189 Bogotá Colombia 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
190 Canberra ACT Australia 3 NODE 43 ASIA ANZ
191 New Orleans Louisiana United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
192 Chengdu Sichuan China 3 NODE 43 ASIA CHINA
193 Guangzhou Guangdong China 3 NODE 43 ASIA CHINA
194 Spokane Washington United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
195 Memphis Tennessee United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
196 Grand Rapids Michigan United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
197 Bakersfield California United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
198 Sapporo Hokkaido Japan 3 NODE 43 ASIA JAPAN
199 Birmingham Alabama United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
200 Springfield Massachusetts United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
201 Stockton California United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
202 Charleston South Carolina United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
203 Fresno California United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
204 Rochester Minnesota United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
205 Green Bay Wisconsin United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
206 Cannes France 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
207 Cardiff United Kingdom 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
208 Leeds United Kingdom 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
209 Kaohsiung Taiwan Taiwan 3 NODE 43 ASIA CHINA
210 Bern Switzerland 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
211 Changchun, Jilin Jilin China 3 NODE 43 ASIA CHINA
212 Greensboro North Carolina United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
213 Madison Wisconsin United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
214 Ulsan South Korea 3 NODE 43 ASIA ASIA
215 Roanoke Virginia United States 3 NODE 43 AMERICAS USA
216 Hangzhou Zhejiang China 3 NODE 43 ASIA CHINA
217 Doha Qatar 3 NODE 43 EMERGING MID-EAST
218 Kingston-Upon-Hull United Kingdom 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
219 Dijon Bourgogne France 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
220 Yekaterinburg Sverdlovsk Oblast Russia 3 NODE 43 EUROPE RUSSIA
221 Florence Italy 3 NODE 43 EUROPE EUROPE
222 Chennai Chennai India 3 NODE 42 ASIA INDIA
223 Kazan Tatarstan Russia 3 NODE 42 EUROPE RUSSIA
224 Tucson Arizona United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
225 Mexico City Mexico 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
226 Allentown Pennsylvania United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
227 Wichita Kansas United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
228 Cincinnati Ohio United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
229 Bridgeport Connecticut United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
230 Syracuse New York United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
231 Corpus Christi Texas United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
232 Gothenburg Sweden 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
233 Detroit Michigan United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
234 Le Havre Upper Normandy France 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
235 Lancaster Pennsylvania United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
236 Bratislava Slovakia 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
237 Zagreb Croatia 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
238 Tianjin Tianjin China 3 NODE 42 ASIA CHINA
239 Hiroshima Japan 3 NODE 42 ASIA JAPAN
240 Dalian Liaoning China 3 NODE 42 ASIA CHINA
241 Coventry United Kingdom 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
242 Gdansk Poland 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
243 Nagasaki Nagasaki Japan 3 NODE 42 ASIA JAPAN
244 Novosibirsk Novosibirsk Oblast Russia 3 NODE 42 EUROPE RUSSIA
245 Grenoble Rhône-Alpes France 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
246 Gent Belgium 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
247 Venice Italy 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
248 Modesto California United States 3 NODE 42 AMERICAS USA
249 Daejeon Chungnam South Korea 3 NODE 42 ASIA ASIA
250 Liège Belgium 3 NODE 42 EUROPE EUROPE
251 Macau Macau China 3 NODE 42 ASIA CHINA
252 Tallinn Estonia 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
253 Bucharest Romania 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
254 Sofia Bulgaria 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
255 Albuquerque New Mexico United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
256 Delhi Delhi India 3 NODE 41 ASIA INDIA
257 Sheffield Yorkshire United Kingdom 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
258 Colombo Western Province Sri Lanka 3 NODE 41 ASIA ASIA
259 Columbus Ohio United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
260 Indianapolis Indiana United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
261 Ottawa Canada 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS CANADA
262 Montgomery Alabama United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
263 Curitiba Brazil 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
264 Springfield Illinois United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
265 Dongguan Guangdong China 3 NODE 41 ASIA CHINA
266 Monterrey Mexico 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
267 Louisville Kentucky United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
268 Metz Lorraine France 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
269 Baton Rouge Louisiana United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
270 Xi’an Shanxi China 3 NODE 41 ASIA CHINA
271 El Paso Texas United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
272 Beirut Lebanon 3 NODE 41 EMERGING MID-EAST
273 Nizhny Novgorod Russia 3 NODE 41 EUROPE RUSSIA
274 Winnipeg Canada 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS CANADA
275 Chattanooga Tennessee United States 3 NODE 41 AMERICAS USA
276 Limoges Limousin France 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
277 Bath & NE Somerset United Kingdom 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
278 Bologna Italy 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
279 Parma Italy 3 NODE 41 EUROPE EUROPE
280 Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk Krai Russia 3 NODE 41 EUROPE RUSSIA
281 Suwon Gyeonggi-do South Korea 3 NODE 41 ASIA ASIA
282 Samara Samara Oblast Russia 3 NODE 41 EUROPE RUSSIA
283 Pune Maharashtra India 3 NODE 40 ASIA INDIA
284 Wollongong NSW Australia 3 NODE 40 ASIA ANZ
285 Cedar Rapids Iowa United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
286 Chongqing Chongqing China 3 NODE 40 ASIA CHINA
287 Lexington Kentucky United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
288 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 3 NODE 40 ASIA ASIA
289 Rostov-na-Donu Russia 3 NODE 40 EUROPE RUSSIA
290 Xiamen Fujian China 3 NODE 40 ASIA CHINA
291 Verona Italy 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
292 Hobart TAS Australia 3 NODE 40 ASIA ANZ
293 Wuhan Hubei China 3 NODE 40 ASIA CHINA
294 Toledo Ohio United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
295 Riga Latvia 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
296 Newcastle-upon-Tyne United Kingdom 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
297 Athens Greece 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
298 Augusta Georgia United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
299 Jakarta Indonesia 3 NODE 40 ASIA ASIA
300 Málaga Spain 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
301 Omaha Nebraska United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
302 Halifax Canada 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS CANADA
303 Kaliningrad Kaliningrad Oblast Russia 3 NODE 40 EUROPE RUSSIA
304 Greenville South Carolina United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
305 London Canada 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS CANADA
306 Petaling Jaya Selangor Malaysia 3 NODE 40 ASIA ASIA
307 Pamplona Spain 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
308 Tulsa Oklahoma United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
309 Valencia Spain 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
310 Columbia South Carolina United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
311 Seville Spain 3 NODE 40 EUROPE EUROPE
312 Bozeman Montana United States 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS USA
313 Hamilton Canada 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS CANADA
314 Brasilia Brazil 3 NODE 40 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
315 Hyderabad Hyderabad India 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA INDIA
316 Kuwait City Kuwait 4 INFLUENCER 39 EMERGING MID-EAST
317 Ballarat VIC Australia 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA ANZ
318 Trieste Italy 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE EUROPE
319 Manila Philippines 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA ASIA
320 Dayton Ohio United States 4 INFLUENCER 39 AMERICAS USA
321 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 4 INFLUENCER 39 EMERGING MID-EAST
322 Little Rock Arkansas United States 4 INFLUENCER 39 AMERICAS USA
323 Padova Italy 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE EUROPE
324 Adana Adana Turkey 4 INFLUENCER 39 EMERGING MID-EAST
325 Vilnius Lithuania 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE EUROPE
326 Christchurch New Zealand 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA ANZ
327 Ankara Turkey 4 INFLUENCER 39 EMERGING MID-EAST
328 Geelong VIC Australia 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA ANZ
329 Winston-Salem North Carolina United States 4 INFLUENCER 39 AMERICAS USA
330 Bendigo VIC Australia 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA ANZ
331 Modena Italy 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE EUROPE
332 Kraków Poland 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE EUROPE
333 Hanoi Hanoi Vietnam 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA ASIA
334 Knoxville Tennessee United States 4 INFLUENCER 39 AMERICAS USA
335 Kitchener Canada 4 INFLUENCER 39 AMERICAS CANADA
336 Katowice Poland 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE EUROPE
337 Reykjavik Iceland 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE EUROPE
338 Zhuhai Guangdong China 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA CHINA
339 Tomsk Tomsk Oblast Russia 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE RUSSIA
340 Perm Perm Krai Russia 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE RUSSIA
341 Saratov Saratov Oblast Russia 4 INFLUENCER 39 EUROPE RUSSIA
342 Ahmedabad India 4 INFLUENCER 39 ASIA INDIA
343 Fredericton – St John New Brunswick Canada 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS CANADA
344 Brno South Moravian Region Czech Republic 4 INFLUENCER 38 EUROPE EUROPE
345 Kosice Slovakia 4 INFLUENCER 38 EUROPE EUROPE
346 Newcastle NSW Australia 4 INFLUENCER 38 ASIA ANZ
347 Johannesburg South Africa 4 INFLUENCER 38 EMERGING AFRICA
348 Springfield Missouri United States 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS USA
349 Akron Ohio United States 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS USA
350 Moncton New Brunswick Canada 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS CANADA
351 Salvador Bahia Brazil 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
352 Reno Nevada United States 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS USA
353 Gijón Asturias Spain 4 INFLUENCER 38 EUROPE EUROPE
354 Qingdao Shandong China 4 INFLUENCER 38 ASIA CHINA
355 Panama City Panama 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
356 Anchorage Alaska United States 4 INFLUENCER 38 AMERICAS USA
357 Harbin Heilongjiang China 4 INFLUENCER 38 ASIA CHINA
358 Queenstown New Zealand 4 INFLUENCER 38 ASIA ANZ
359 Shenyang Liaoning China 4 INFLUENCER 38 ASIA CHINA
360 Izmir Turkey 4 INFLUENCER 38 EMERGING MID-EAST
361 Dubrovnik Croatia 4 INFLUENCER 38 EUROPE EUROPE
362 Omsk Omsk Oblast Russia 4 INFLUENCER 38 EUROPE RUSSIA
363 Cairo Egypt 4 INFLUENCER 38 EMERGING MID-EAST
364 Baku Azerbaijan 4 INFLUENCER 37 EMERGING EURASIA
365 Volgograd Volgograd Oblast Russia 4 INFLUENCER 37 EUROPE RUSSIA
366 Belo Horizonte Brazil 4 INFLUENCER 37 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
367 Vladivostok Primorsky Krai Russia 4 INFLUENCER 37 EUROPE RUSSIA
368 Thessaloniki Greece 4 INFLUENCER 37 EUROPE EUROPE
369 Amman Jordan 4 INFLUENCER 37 EMERGING MID-EAST
370 Recife Pernambuco Brazil 4 INFLUENCER 37 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
371 Lviv Lviv Oblast Ukraine 4 INFLUENCER 37 EMERGING EURASIA
372 Kiev Ukraine 4 INFLUENCER 37 EMERGING EURASIA
373 Zhengzhou Henan China 4 INFLUENCER 37 ASIA CHINA
374 Jackson Mississippi United States 4 INFLUENCER 37 AMERICAS USA
375 Puebla Puebla Mexico 4 INFLUENCER 37 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
376 Tirana Albania 4 INFLUENCER 36 EUROPE EUROPE
377 Santiago Chile 4 INFLUENCER 36 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
378 Cordoba Argentina 4 INFLUENCER 36 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
379 Casablanca Morocco 4 INFLUENCER 36 EMERGING AFRICA
380 Surat Gujarat India 4 INFLUENCER 36 ASIA INDIA
381 Chisinau Moldova 4 INFLUENCER 36 EUROPE EUROPE
382 Lincoln Nebraska United States 4 INFLUENCER 36 AMERICAS USA
383 San Jose, Costa Rica Costa Rica 4 INFLUENCER 36 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
384 San Salvador El Salvador 4 INFLUENCER 36 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
385 Durban South Africa 4 INFLUENCER 36 EMERGING AFRICA
386 Porto Alegre Brazil 4 INFLUENCER 36 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
387 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 4 INFLUENCER 35 EMERGING MID-EAST
388 Quito Ecuador 4 INFLUENCER 35 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
389 Bursa, Turkey Bursa Turkey 4 INFLUENCER 35 EMERGING MID-EAST
390 Lima Peru 4 INFLUENCER 35 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
391 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh India 4 INFLUENCER 35 ASIA INDIA
392 Manama Bahrain 4 INFLUENCER 35 EMERGING MID-EAST
393 Rabat Morocco 4 INFLUENCER 35 EMERGING AFRICA
394 Guadalajara Mexico 4 INFLUENCER 35 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
395 Muscat Oman 4 INFLUENCER 35 EMERGING MID-EAST
396 Timisoara Romania 4 INFLUENCER 35 EUROPE EUROPE
397 Valparaíso Valparaíso Chile 4 INFLUENCER 35 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
398 Caracas Venezuela 4 INFLUENCER 35 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
399 Santo Domingo, DR Dominican Republic 4 INFLUENCER 35 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
400 Izhevsk Udmurt Republic Russia 4 INFLUENCER 35 EUROPE RUSSIA
401 Kolkata West Bengal India 5 UPSTART 34 ASIA INDIA
402 Montevideo Uruguay 5 UPSTART 34 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
403 Granada Spain 5 UPSTART 34 EUROPE EUROPE
404 Barnaul Altai Krai Russia 5 UPSTART 34 EUROPE RUSSIA
405 Dhaka Bangladesh 5 UPSTART 34 ASIA ASIA
406 Orenburg Orenburg Oblast Russia 5 UPSTART 34 EUROPE RUSSIA
407 Tolyatti Samara Oblast Russia 5 UPSTART 34 EUROPE RUSSIA
408 Yantai-Weihai Shandong China 5 UPSTART 34 ASIA CHINA
409 Odessa Odessa Oblast Ukraine 5 UPSTART 34 EMERGING EURASIA
410 Kharkov Kharkiv Oblast Ukraine 5 UPSTART 34 EMERGING EURASIA
411 Alexandria Egypt 5 UPSTART 34 EMERGING MID-EAST
412 Dnepropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Ukraine 5 UPSTART 34 EMERGING EURASIA
413 Havana Havana Cuba 5 UPSTART 33 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
414 Jaipur Rajasthan India 5 UPSTART 33 ASIA INDIA
415 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India 5 UPSTART 33 ASIA INDIA
416 Tbilisi Georgia 5 UPSTART 33 EMERGING EURASIA
417 Donetsk Donetsk Oblast Ukraine 5 UPSTART 33 EMERGING EURASIA
418 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 5 UPSTART 32 EMERGING AFRICA
419 Sevastopol Sevastopol Ukraine 5 UPSTART 32 EMERGING EURASIA
420 Chittagong Chittagong Bangladesh 5 UPSTART 32 ASIA ASIA
421 Zaporozhye Zaporizhia Oblast Ukraine 5 UPSTART 32 EMERGING EURASIA
422 Phnom Penh, Cam Phnom Penh Cambodia 5 UPSTART 32 ASIA ASIA
423 Simferopol Crimea Ukraine 5 UPSTART 32 EMERGING EURASIA
424 Almaty Kazakhstan 5 UPSTART 31 EMERGING EURASIA
425 Nairobi Kenya 5 UPSTART 31 EMERGING AFRICA
426 Karachi Pakistan 5 UPSTART 31 EMERGING EURASIA
427 Bishkek Kyrgyzstan 5 UPSTART 31 EMERGING EURASIA
428 Madurai Tamil Nadu India 5 UPSTART 31 ASIA INDIA
429 Bandung West Java Indonesia 5 UPSTART 31 ASIA ASIA
430 Skopje Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 5 UPSTART 30 EUROPE EUROPE
431 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 5 UPSTART 30 EMERGING AFRICA
432 Algiers Algeria 5 UPSTART 30 EMERGING AFRICA
433 Tegucigalpa Honduras 0 29 AMERICAS LATIN AMERICA
434 San Juan Puerto Rico 0 28 AMERICAS USA
435 Minsk Belarus 0 28 EMERGING EURASIA
436 Yangon Yangon Region Burma 0 28 ASIA ASIA
437 Dakar Senegal 0 28 EMERGING AFRICA
438 Port Louis Mauritius 0 27 EMERGING AFRICA
439 Lahore Pakistan 0 26 EMERGING EURASIA
440 Luanda Angola 0 26 EMERGING AFRICA
441 Lagos Nigeria 0 24 EMERGING AFRICA
442 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo 0 20 EMERGING AFRICA

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