Emerging Cities Ranking 2019 by 2thinknow Innovation Cities™ Index

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Emerging cities ranking 2019 & city classification from 12th annual Innovation Cities™ Index by 2thinknow city ranking for Mid-East, Eurasia and Africa.

2thinknow city ranking for innovation since 2007.

Part of the world’s largest global city ranking, the Innovation Cities™ Index, with 500 benchmark cities classified and ranked globally, featuring 53 cities in Emerging region (16 Mid-East, 18 Eurasia, 19 Africa) this year.

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This city rankings includes tech, smart, startups and other aspects of a good city to live, work and play based on economic opportunity for innovators. The Innovation Cities™ Indexes measure each cities potential as an innovation economy at the current time, since 2007.

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162 City Indicators

Based on 162 standard indicators with underlying Data Points from 2thinknow's awesome City Benchmarking Data set - all available to order for single cities or sets of cities. If you want more background information, order the Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report (info, order)

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Index Resources

EMERGING RANK	CITY	GEOGRAPHY	STATE/PROVINCE	GROUPING	SCORE	CLASS	GLOBAL RANK	CITY ID
1	Dubai	United Arab Emirates		MID-EAST	49	NEXUS	31	353
2	Tel Aviv	Israel		MID-EAST	47	NEXUS	41	1337
3	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates		MID-EAST	44	HUB	75	8
4	Jerusalem	Israel		MID-EAST	39	NODE	236	588
5	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia		MID-EAST	38	NODE	281	1112
6	Doha	Qatar		MID-EAST	37	NODE	284	344
7	Cape Town	South Africa	Western Cape	AFRICA	37	NODE	289	223
8	Haifa	Israel		MID-EAST	37	NODE	297	479
9	Cairo	Egypt	Cairo	MID-EAST	37	NODE	304	208
10	Kuwait City	Kuwait		MID-EAST	36	NODE	315	698
11	Sharjah	United Arab Emirates		MID-EAST	36	NODE	323	1228
12	Kiev	Ukraine		EURASIA	35	NODE	347	645
13	Johannesburg	South Africa	Gauteng	AFRICA	35	NODE	351	591
14	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia		MID-EAST	35	NODE	354	584
15	Karachi	Pakistan		EURASIA	34	UPSTART	377	616
16	Tehran	Iran		MID-EAST	33	UPSTART	390	1335
17	Alexandria	Egypt	Alexandria Governorate	MID-EAST	33	UPSTART	398	29
18	Tbilisi	Georgia	Tbilisi	EURASIA	32	UPSTART	407	1617
19	Muscat	Oman		MID-EAST	32	UPSTART	413	868
20	Almaty	Kazakhstan		EURASIA	32	UPSTART	414	35
21	Manama	Bahrain		MID-EAST	31	UPSTART	415	779
22	Baku	Azerbaijan		EURASIA	31	UPSTART	420	1616
23	Beirut	Lebanon		MID-EAST	31	UPSTART	422	126
24	Durban	South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	AFRICA	31	UPSTART	423	361
25	Amman	Jordan		MID-EAST	31	UPSTART	425	41
26	Casablanca	Morocco		AFRICA	31	UPSTART	427	235
27	Lahore	Pakistan		EURASIA	31	UPSTART	428	707
28	Nairobi	Kenya		AFRICA	30	UPSTART	433	880
29	Ajman	United Arab Emirates		MID-EAST	30	UPSTART	442	19
30	Pretoria	South Africa		AFRICA	30	UPSTART	443	1065
31	Al-Ain	United Arab Emirates		MID-EAST	29	UPSTART	452	24
32	Minsk	Belarus		EURASIA	29	UPSTART	454	1527
33	Odessa	Ukraine	Odessa Oblast	EURASIA	29	UPSTART	455	949
34	Nur Sultan (Astana)	Kazakhstan		EURASIA	27		467	74
35	Kharkov	Ukraine	Kharkiv Oblast	EURASIA	27		468	639
36	Rabat	Morocco		AFRICA	27		469	1082
37	Lviv	Ukraine	Lviv Oblast	EURASIA	27		470	756
38	Lagos	Nigeria		AFRICA	27		474	706
39	Dnepropetrovsk	Ukraine	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	EURASIA	26		477	343
40	Tunis	Tunisia		AFRICA	26		479	1395
41	Algiers	Algeria		AFRICA	26		483	31
42	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan		EURASIA	25		484	153
43	Zaporozhye	Ukraine	Zaporizhia Oblast	EURASIA	25		485	1518
44	Port Louis	Mauritius		AFRICA	24		488	1547
45	Donetsk	Ukraine	Donetsk Oblast	EURASIA	24		489	346
46	Sevastopol	Ukraine	Sevastopol	EURASIA	24		490	1222
47	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	AFRICA	24		491	12
48	Dakar	Senegal		AFRICA	23		492	323
49	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania		AFRICA	23		493	329
50	Simferopol	Ukraine	Crimea	EURASIA	23		494	1237
51	Douala	Cameroon	Cameroon Littoral Region	AFRICA	22		495	350
52	Luanda	Angola		AFRICA	22		496	744
53	Dushanbe	Tajikistan		EURASIA	22		497	362
54	Port Harcourt	Nigeria		AFRICA	20		498	1050
55	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	AFRICA	20		499	650
56	Khartoum	Sudan		AFRICA	18		500	640

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