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The 150 richest cities in the world by GDP in 2005

11 March 2007: The tables provide GDP figures for cities and their surrounding urban areas in 2005. Most such agglomerations are economically, socially and culturally dominated by one city at their centre. Occasionally however, several cities of similar status and their suburbs make up an urban area. The GDP figures are estimated and expressed in US$, using purchasing power parity exchange rates. The estimates are based on PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates and projections as well as UN urban agglomeration definitions and population estimates. The research was carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

THE MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES IN THE WORLD
ECA International survey (June 2008): Introduction | Table: World | Table: Europe | Table: Asia |
UBS survey (March 2008): Most expensive cities (Intro) | World's most expensive cities (table) | Richest cities by personal earnings (table) | Richest cities by purchasing power (table |
Mercer survey (July 2008): Most expensive cities
EIU survey (2007): Most expensive cities

RICHEST CITIES BY GDP
Introduction | 150 richest cities in 2005 | 150 richest cities in 2020 | Europe's richest cities |

LARGEST CITIES RANKED BY LAND AREA, POPULATION AND DENSITY
Introduction & methodology
Land area: Cities ranked 1 to 125 | Cities ranked 126 to 250 |
Population: Cities ranked 1 to 125 | Cities ranked 126 to 250 |
Population density: Cities ranked 1 to 125 | Cities ranked 126 to 250 |

URBAN AND METRO AREAS
Largest urban and metropolitan areas: In 2006 | In 2020 | Fastest growing | Alphabetical index |

CITIES
Core cities: Largest core cities | Capital cities |

Richest cities and urban areas in 2005

Rank	City/Urban area	Country	GDP in US$bn
1	Tokyo	Japan	1191
2	New York	USA	1133
3	Los Angeles	USA	639
4	Chicago	USA	460
5	Paris	France	460
6	London	UK	452
7	Osaka/Kobe	Japan	341
8	Mexico City	Mexico	315
9	Philadelphia	USA	312
10	Washington DC	USA	299
11	Boston	USA	290
12	Dallas/Fort Worth	USA	268
13	Buenos Aires	Argentina	245
14	Hong Kong	China	244
15	San Francisco/Oakland	USA	242
16	Atlanta	USA	236
17	Houston	USA	235
18	Miami	USA	231
19	Sao Paulo	Brazil	225
20	Seoul	South Korea	218
21	Toronto	Canada	209
22	Detroit	USA	203
23	Madrid	Spain	188
24	Seattle	USA	186
25	Moscow	Russia	181
26	Sydney	Australia	172
27	Phoenix	USA	156
28	Minneapolis	USA	155
29	San Diego	USA	153
30	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	141
31	Barcelona	Spain	140
32	Shanghai	China	139
33	Melbourne	Australia	135
34	Istanbul	Turkey	133
35	Denver	USA	130
36	Singapore	Singapore	129
37	Mumbai	India	126
38	Rome	Italy	123
39	Montreal	Canada	120
40	Milan	Italy	115
41	Baltimore	USA	110
42	Metro Manila	Philippines	108
43	St Louis	USA	101
44	Beijing	China	99
45	Cairo	Egypt	98
46	Jakarta	Indonesia	98
47	Tampa/St Petersburg	USA	97
48	Pusan	South Korea	95
49	Kolkata	India	94
50	Vienna	Austria	93
51	Delhi	India	93
52	Tel Aviv-Jaffa	Israel	92
53	Santiago	Chile	91
54	Cleveland	USA	90
55	Bangkok	Thailand	89
56	Tehran	Iran	88
57	Portland	USA	87
58	Bogotá	Colombia	86
59	St Petersburg	Russia	85
60	Guangzhou	China	84
61	Pittsburgh	USA	80
62	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	80
63	Lisbon	Portugal	79
64	Vancouver	Canada	79
65	Johannesburg	South Africa	79
66	Monterrey	Mexico	78
67	Stockholm	Sweden	76
68	Cape Town	South Africa	75
69	Berlin	Germany	75
70	Athens	Greece	73
71	Birmingham	UK	72
72	Fukuoka	Japan	72
73	Manchester	UK	69
74	Lima	Peru	67
75	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	65
76	Guadalajara	Mexico	60
77	Hamburg	Germany	58
78	Turin	Italy	58
79	Lyon	France	56
80	Jiddah	Saudi Arabia	55
81	Karachi	Pakistan	55
82	Dhaka	Bangladesh	52
83	Munich	Germany	50
84	Dublin	Ireland	49
85	Leeds	UK	48
86	Warsaw	Poland	48
87	Tianjin	China	45
88	Bangalore	India	45
89	Porto Alegre	Brazil	44
90	Helsinki	Finland	43
91	Naples	Italy	43
92	Budapest	Hungary	43
93	Zurich	Switzerland	42
94	Ankara	Turkey	42
95	Amsterdam	Netherlands	42
96	Auckland	New Zealand	41
97	Copenhagen	Denmark	41
98	Recife	Brazil	41
99	Rotterdam	Netherlands	40
100	Brussels	Belgium	39
101	East Rand	South Africa	39
102	Brasilia	Brazil	38
103	Salvador	El Salvador	38
104	Wuhan	China	38
105	Chennai	India	38
106	Ho Chi Min City	Vietnam	38
107	Hyderabad	India	38
108	Fortaleza	Brazil	37
109	Prague	Czech Republic	36
110	Chongqing	China	35
111	Algiers	Algeria	35
112	Medellin	Colombia	34
113	Taegu	South Korea	34
114	Curitiba	Brazil	33
115	Ahmadabad	India	32
116	Oslo	Norway	31
117	Izmir	Turkey	31
118	Lagos	Nigeria	30
119	Pune	India	30
120	Alexandria	Egypt	30
121	Cologne	Germany	29
122	Lahore	Pakistan	28
123	Caracas	Venezuela	28
124	Hanoi	Vietnam	28
125	Shenyang	China	27
126	Puebla	Mexico	27
127	Lille	France	27
128	Bandung	Indonesia	26
129	Casablanca	Morocco	24
130	Khartoum	Sudan	23
131	Surat	India	22
132	Baghdad	Iraq	22
133	Chengdu	China	21
134	Xian	China	19
135	Kanpur	India	17
136	Yangon	Burma	16
137	Chittagong	Bangladesh	16
138	Changchun	China	15
139	Jaipur	India	15
140	Lucknow	India	14
141	Luanda	Angola	12
142	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	11
143	Pyongyang	North Korea	10
144	Faisalabad	Pakistan	10
145	Kinshasha	Congo	10
146	Krakow	Poland	10
147	Kabul	Afghanistan	9
148	Nairobi	Kenya	8
149	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	7
150	Kano	Nigeria	7
151	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	5

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