Current Upstart Cities – Innovation Cities™ Index


Cities that that can move towards being globally competitive (Node) in future.

Preceded by Nexus (Top), Hub, Node and followed by unranked.

Global Rank City Name State Province Country Class. Score Sub Region
439 Manama   Bahrain 4 UPSTART 31 MID-EAST
440 Dhaka Dhaka Division Bangladesh 4 UPSTART 31 ASIA PAC
441 Muscat   Oman 4 UPSTART 31 MID-EAST
442 Pretoria   South Africa 4 UPSTART 31 AFRICA
443 Chisinau   Moldova 4 UPSTART 31 EURO CONT
444 Tomsk Tomsk Oblast Russia 4 UPSTART 31 RUSSIA
445 Shantou Guangdong China 4 UPSTART 31 CHINA
446 Barnaul Altai Krai Russia 4 UPSTART 31 RUSSIA
447 Lahore   Pakistan 4 UPSTART 31 EURASIA
448 Orenburg Orenburg Oblast Russia 4 UPSTART 31 RUSSIA
449 Sarajevo   Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 UPSTART 30 EURO CONT
450 Guimaraes Norte Portugal 4 UPSTART 30 EURO CONT
451 Guatemala City Guatemala Guatemala 4 UPSTART 30 LATIN AMERICA
452 Santa Cruz de Tenerife   Spain 4 UPSTART 30 EURO CONT
453 Lviv Lviv Oblast Ukraine 4 UPSTART 30 EURASIA
454 Izhevsk Udmurt Republic Russia 4 UPSTART 30 RUSSIA
455 Tolyatti Samara Oblast Russia 4 UPSTART 30 RUSSIA
456 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India 4 UPSTART 30 INDIA
457 Bandung West Java Indonesia 4 UPSTART 30 ASIA PAC
458 Kharkov Kharkiv Oblast Ukraine 4 UPSTART 30 EURASIA
459 Caracas   Venezuela 4 UPSTART 30 LATIN AMERICA
460 Yangon Yangon Region Burma 4 UPSTART 30 ASIA PAC
461 Al-Ain   United Arab Emirates 4 UPSTART 29 MID-EAST
462 Bishkek   Kyrgyzstan 4 UPSTART 29 EURASIA
463 Cali Valle del Cauca Colombia 4 UPSTART 29 LATIN AMERICA
464 Chittagong Chittagong Bangladesh 4 UPSTART 29 ASIA PAC
465 Minsk   Belarus 4 UPSTART 29 EURASIA
466 San Juan   Argentina 4 UPSTART 29 LATIN AMERICA
467 Odessa Odessa Oblast Ukraine 4 UPSTART 29 EURASIA
468 Rabat   Morocco 4 UPSTART 29 AFRICA
469 Madurai Tamil Nadu India 4 UPSTART 29 INDIA
470 Ajman   United Arab Emirates 4 UPSTART 28 MID-EAST
471 Guayaquil Guayas Ecuador 4 UPSTART 28 LATIN AMERICA
472 Astana   Kazakhstan 4 UPSTART 28 EURASIA
473 Nassau   Bahamas 4 UPSTART 28 LATIN AMERICA
474 Dnepropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Ukraine 4 UPSTART 28 EURASIA
475 Algiers   Algeria 4 UPSTART 28 AFRICA
476 Kingston   Jamaica 4 UPSTART 27 LATIN AMERICA
477 Tunis   Tunisia 4 UPSTART 27 AFRICA
478 Cartagena   Colombia 4 UPSTART 27 LATIN AMERICA
479 Lagos   Nigeria 4 UPSTART 27 AFRICA
480 Port Louis   Mauritius 4 UPSTART 26 AFRICA
481 Phnom Penh, Cam Phnom Penh Cambodia 4 UPSTART 26 ASIA PAC
482 Ulaanbaatar   Mongolia 4 UPSTART 26 ASIA PAC
483 La Paz La Paz Department Bolivia 4 UPSTART 26 LATIN AMERICA
484 Donetsk Donetsk Oblast Ukraine 4 UPSTART 26 EURASIA

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