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202X city classification
The cities in the 202X classification (2nd) are as follows.
(1) or (1) indicates a city moved one category up or down since the 202X classification (1st).
Alpha
Alpha level cities are linked to major economic states and regions and into the world economy and are classified into four sections, Alpha ++, Alpha +, Alpha, and Alpha − cities.
Alpha ++
Alpha ++ cities are cities most integrated with the global economy:
Alpha +
Alpha + cities are highly integrated cities, filling advanced service needs:
Alpha
Alpha −
Beta
Beta level cities are cities that link moderate economic regions to the world economy and are classified into three sections, Beta +, Beta, and Beta − cities.
Beta +
Beta
Beta −
- Adelaide
- Andorra la Vella
- Antwerp
- Austin (2)
- Belgrade
- Birmingham
- Changsha
- Chongqing
- Cleveland
- Cologne
- Dalian
- Dar es Salaam
- Detroit
- Dhaka
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Guatemala City
- Helsinki
- Jeddah
- Jinan
- Kampala
- Kolkata
- Lahore (1)
- Lyon
- Nicosia (1)
- Osaka
- Panama City
- Port Louis[i]
- Quito
- Riga
- Rotterdam
- Saint Petersburg
- San Jose
- San José
- San Juan
- San Salvador
- Shenyang
- Tallinn
- Tampa (2)
- Tunis
- Valencia
- Xiamen
- Xi'an (1)
- Yangon
- Zhengzhou (1)
Gamma
Gamma level cities are cities that link smaller economic regions into the world economy and are classified into three sections, Gamma +, Gamma, and Gamma − cities.
Gamma +
Gamma
- Ahmedabad[i]
- Ankara
- Asunción
- Belfast
- Belo Horizonte
- Bilbao
- Columbus
- Dakar
- Gothenburg
- Haikou (3)
- La Paz
- Las Vegas (1)
- Lausanne
- Leeds
- Luanda
- Lusaka
- Malmö (1)
- Managua (2)
- Medellín
- Milwaukee
- Minsk
- Nashville (1)
- Ottawa
- Portland (1)
- Sacramento
- San Antonio (1)
- Santo Domingo
- Skopje (1)
- Taichung (1)
- Tbilisi
- Tegucigalpa
- Tirana
- Turin
- Wrocław (1)
- Wellington
Gamma −
- Aarhus
- Agra (1)
- Canberra
- Curitiba
- Douala
- Dresden
- Edmonton
- Florence
- Fuzhou
- Gaborone (1)
- Guadalajara
- Harbin (2)
- Indianapolis
- Kansas City (1)
- Kaohsiung (1)
- Limassol
- Málaga
- Maputo
- Nagoya
- Nantes
- Nassau (1)
- Penang
- Pittsburgh
- Port-au-Prince
- Poznań
- Querétaro (2)
- Raleigh
- Salt Lake City (2)
- Taiyuan (1)
Sufficiency
Sufficiency level cities are cities that have a sufficient degree of services so as not to be overly dependent on world cities. This is sorted into High Sufficiency cities and Sufficiency cities.
High Sufficiency
Sufficiency
- Aberdeen
- Alexandria
- Anaheim[i]
- Antananarivo
- Apia[i]
- Atlantic City[i]
- Bakersfield
- Bandar Seri Begawan
- Barranquilla
- Basel[i]
- Bern[i]
- Birmingham
- Bishkek[i]
- Blantyre
- Boise
- Bologna
- Bordeaux
- Brazzaville[i]
- Bremen
- Bridgeport
- Buffalo
- Burlington
- Bursa
- Busan
- Campinas[i]
- Cardiff
- Carson City[i]
- Cebu City
- Changchun
- Chihuahua[i]
- Chișinău
- Christchurch
- Ciudad Juárez
- Córdoba
- Des Moines
- Dundee
- Dushanbe
- El Paso
- Fort Worth
- Fresno
- Fukuoka
- Funafuti
- Genoa
- Georgetown[ii]
- Ghent
- Goiânia
- Gold Coast
- Graz
- Grenoble
- Guiyang
- Haifa[i]
- Hamilton
- Hanover
- Harrisburg[i]
- Havana
- Henderson
- Hobart
- Hohhot
- Honolulu[i]
- Jerusalem
- Katowice
- Kazan
- Kigali
- Kingston
- Koror City
- Kyoto
- Lanzhou
- León
- Libreville
- Liège
- Lille
- Linz
- Łódź
- Lomé[i]
- London
- Long Beach
- Longyearbyen
- Louisville
- Madison
- Malacca[i]
- Malé[i]
- Manchester
- Mannheim[i]
- Marseille
- Mecca[i]
- Memphis
- Mérida
- Mexicali
- Mississauga
- Montgomery
- Montpellier
- Nanchang
- Nanning
- Navi Mumbai
- Naypyidaw
- New Orleans
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle
- Nice
- Nottingham
- Novosibirsk
- Nur-Sultan (1)
- Nuuk
- Oakland
- Oklahoma City
- Omaha[i]
- Palermo
- Palo Alto
- Paramaribo
- Podgorica
- Port Elizabeth
- Portland[i]
- Port Moresby[i]
- Praia
- Pretoria
- Pristina
- Quebec City
- Recife
- Redding[i]
- Reno
- Reykjavík
- Riverside[i]
- Rochester[i]
- Rosario
- Saint Paul
- Salvador[i]
- San Bernardino[i]
- San Pedro Sula
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Santa Monica
- Sapporo
- Sarajevo
- Sendai
- Sheffield
- Shijiazhuang
- Southampton[i]
- Stanley
- Strasbourg
- Suva[i]
- Swansea
- Tallahassee
- Tórshavn
- Toulouse
- Trieste
- Tromsø
- Tucson
- Ürümqi
- Utrecht
- Vaduz
- Valencia
- Valletta
- Valparaíso
- Vatican City
- Venice
- Vientiane
- Windsor
- Winnipeg
- Wuxi
- Yaren
- Zhuhai
No longer classified
The following cities were included in the 202X edition (1st), but not in the 202X edition (2nd):