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What Is the World's Most Economically Powerful City?

Times Square: January 1938/September 2009. Sources: Bofinger, E.M./NYC Municipal Archives; Wikimedia Commons

Cities matter.

But in contest for one metro to rule them all, New York takes the crown as the most economically powerful metropolitan, according to my assessment of five recent comprehensive rankings of global cities. London is second, followed by Tokyo and Chicago. The former tops the ranks of the most economically powerful cities in Asia, though Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai also rank highly. Paris, LA, DC and Boston also show strength.

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