Sunday 23 December 2007

World Capitals: We reveal the greatest city on earth - Independent Online Edition

Welcome to World Capitals, where we explain our methodology to determine a league table of great cities.

The information is in three parts. First, “World Capitals – How We Did It” explains the criteria chosen and the sources used (together with any deficiencies we identified in the data). It describes the formulae applied to the data – in other words, the weighting we gave to every piece of information. And it points out drawbacks with each criterion that may favour particular locations.

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