19 Cites That Will Rule The World In 2025

[Razor]

I seen this on my MSN news feed when I logged out of my Hotmail a little earlier.

For what it's worth

There are some nice skyline shots and some handy little facts.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topst...id=mailsignout

[Cirrus]

I like how these are all the same cities that are important today, but they've given them all new names. Nice clickbait.

[pdxtex]

here im going to guess before looking at your article.

New York
Tokyo
London
Moscow
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Toronto
Houston
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Buenos Aires
Rio De Janeiro
Chicago
Seattle
Sydney
Jakarta
Guangzhou
Atlanta
Dallas

11 of 19. meh. also that list cheats. its lumping in cities together and listing the mega region instead.

[JDRCRASH]

Originally Posted by pdxtex

here im going to guess before looking at your article.

New York
Tokyo
London
Moscow
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Toronto
Houston
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Buenos Aires
Rio De Janeiro
Chicago
Seattle
Sydney
Jakarta
Guangzhou
Atlanta
Dallas

11 of 19. meh. also that list cheats. its lumping in cities together and listing the mega region instead.

Yeah I feel like if that's the case it should be titled "The 19 regions that will rule the world by 2025".

[chris08876]

How are some regions doubling or adding 100% of their current GDP in the span of 8 years?

I question some economic figures added there.

[memph]

So they don't believe in Seoul conquering the world one k-pop hit at a time?

Seems like this is based on GDP/population which is not everything though. Washington might not have an as big economy as Tokyo, but it's the head of the world's wealthiest nation, and by far the most powerful military. Also the Bay Area is still pretty huge for tech which is such a big part of everyone's lives these days.
Other important cities that got left out - Delhi, Bangkok, Jakarta, Karachi, Mumbai, Buenos Ares, Cairo, Riyadh (controls much of the energy supply, though maybe not by 2025?). Delhi, Jakarta and Karachi as well as Lagos are all likely to have urban areas of over 30 million people by 2025, along with Shanghai, Tokyo and Pearl River Delta.

Lumping some of these together, like Pearl River Delta seems ok, but Chongqing and Chengdu are separated by 300km, most of which is rural. That's like lumping the Randstadt, Brussels and Rhine-Ruhr into a single region except the areas in between those urban regions are still more built up.

[dimondpark]

No Bay Area?

pfft bitch please, we'll turn off the internet and eff up all yalls android/ios phones. #girlBYE

jk nbfrt.

[mrsmartman]

Originally Posted by memph

So they don't believe in Seoul conquering the world one k-pop hit at a time?

Seems like this is based on GDP/population which is not everything though. Washington might not have an as big economy as Tokyo, but it's the head of the world's wealthiest nation, and by far the most powerful military. Also the Bay Area is still pretty huge for tech which is such a big part of everyone's lives these days.
Other important cities that got left out - Delhi, Bangkok, Jakarta, Karachi, Mumbai, Buenos Ares, Cairo, Riyadh (controls much of the energy supply, though maybe not by 2025?). Delhi, Jakarta and Karachi as well as Lagos are all likely to have urban areas of over 30 million people by 2025, along with Shanghai, Tokyo and Pearl River Delta.

Lumping some of these together, like Pearl River Delta seems ok, but Chongqing and Chengdu are separated by 300km, most of which is rural. That's like lumping the Randstadt, Brussels and Rhine-Ruhr into a single region except the areas in between those urban regions are still more built up.

I agree with most of your observation. This compilation is obviously biased as it misses out major cities in Middle East and Africa.

[Razor]

ya it's just a click bait list for sure, just thought I would post it.

[isaidso]

I'll guess the 19 before looking at it:

New York
Toronto
San Francisco
Mexico City
Sao Paulo
London
Paris
Istanbul
Moscow
Johannesburg
Mumbai
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Jakarta
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Seoul
Melbourne