Perhaps not surprisingly, New York City tops the list. As the financial capital of the world, Manhattan and the surrounding area continue to attract billionaire financiers. Other cities are popular for the lifestyle they offer, from weather to cultural amenities to good schools for billionaire offspring. More billionaires actually call Europe home over North America. There are 775 billionaires in Europe versus 609 in North America. However, the two continents’ resident billionaires’ net worth are incredibly close. Europe’s billionaires control a combined $2.375 trillion while North America’s posses $2.371 trillion. Asia has the third most billionaires, followed by the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Pacific. When you break it down to the population of billionaires in any given country, the U.S. has the most billionaires, followed by China, the U.K., Germany, and Russia. However, the U.S.’s population of billionaires is larger than the combined number of billionaires in China, the U.K., Germany, and Russia. The cities on the list below are home to 34% of the world’s billionaires: New York City Number of Billionaires: 103 Moscow Number of Billionaires: 85 Hong Kong Number of Billionaires: 82 London Number of Billionaires: 72 Beijing Number of Billionaires: 37 Sao Paulo Number of Billionaires: 36 Istanbul Number of Billionaires: 35 Dubai Number of Billionaires: 24 Paris Number of Billionaires: 33 Singapore Number of Billionaires: 32 Mumbai Number of Billionaires: 28 Tokyo Number of Billionaires: 26 Los Angeles Number of Billionaires: 25 Shenzhen, China Number of Billionaires: 25 Geneva Number of Billionaires: 23 Mexico City Number of Billionaires: 21 Shanghai Number of Billionaires: 21 Taipei Number of Billionaires: 21 Madrid Number of Billionaires: 21 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Number of Billionaires: 20
