Worldwide Centers of Commerce


The Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index is an index of the world's cities by MasterCard. Using seven evaluative dimensions, it provides rankings for 75 leading commercial cities.

2008 rankings

As of 2008, the top 75 commercial centers according to the Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index in the world are:

RankCity
1 London
2 New York City
3 Tokyo
4 Singapore
5 Chicago
6 Hong Kong
7 Paris
8 Frankfurt
9 Seoul
10 Amsterdam
11 Madrid
12 Sydney
13 Toronto
14 Copenhagen
15 Zurich
16 Stockholm
17 Los Angeles
18 Philadelphia
19 Osaka
20 Milan
21 Boston
22 Taipei
23 Berlin
24 Shanghai
25 Atlanta



RankCity
26 Vienna
27 Munich
28 San Francisco
29 Miami
30 Brussels
31 Dublin
32 Montreal
33 Hamburg
34 Houston
35 Dallas
36 Washington, D.C.
37 Vancouver
38 Barcelona
39 Düsseldorf
40 Geneva
41 Melbourne
42 Bangkok
43 Edinburgh
44 Dubai
45 Tel Aviv
46 Lisbon
47 Rome
48 Mumbai
49 Prague
50 Kuala Lumpur



RankCity
51 Moscow
52 Budapest
53 Santiago
54 Mexico City
55 Athens
56 São Paulo
57 Beijing
58 Johannesburg
59 Warsaw
60 Shenzhen
61 New Delhi
62 Chennai
63 Buenos Aires
64 Istanbul
65 Rio de Janeiro
66 Bangalore
67 Saint Petersburg
68 Jakarta
69 Riyadh
70 Cairo
71 Manila
72 Chengdu
73 Chongqing
74 Beirut
75 Caracas

Countries with cities on the list by region

ContinentCountryCities
Cairo
Johannesburg
Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing
Hong Kong
Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore
Jakarta
Tel Aviv
Tokyo, Osaka
Beirut
Kuala Lumpur
Manila
Riyadh
Singapore
Seoul
Taipei
Bangkok
Dubai
Sydney, Melbourne
Vienna
Brussels
Prague
Copenhagen
Paris
Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf
Athens
Budapest
Dublin
Milan, Rome
Amsterdam
Warsaw
Lisbon
Moscow, Saint Petersburg
Madrid, Barcelona
Stockholm
Zurich, Geneva
Istanbul
London, Edinburgh
Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver
Mexico City
New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Washington, D.C.
Buenos Aires
São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
Santiago
Caracas