The world's best cities announced - and there are a handful of UK hotspots named among the elite

The world's best cities have been ranked - with a handful of Britain's cultural hotspots ranked among the elite.

More than 50% of the locations in the top 10 of the World's Best Cities ranking were in Europe, with New York, Tokyo, Dubai and Singapore also making the ranking.

The rankings, which are compiled by real estate and tourism consultancy Resonance, look at six different categories: place, product, programming, people, prosperity and promotion.

They focus more on financial and business factors, such as the number of major tech companies in a given city, than other more vacation-focused rankings.

London, the capital of the United Kingdom, with a population of 11 million, took first place. It has been hailed for its incredible restaurants, has been a hit on social media as the "hashtag capital of the world" and has a slew of luxury properties that attract the mega-rich.

Our friends across the Channel followed a close second, with Paris hailed for attacking the pandemic with doctors, vaccinations and large-scale urban renewal.

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These included an "aggressive empowerment of self-propelled mobility" that included a city-wide speed limit of 30 km/h and an "obsessive" implementation of hundreds of miles of bike parks.

"It is the adhesion of the citizens to this audacity that definitively changes the fabric of the city", adds the company.

The next stop was the US East Coast hub, New York - dubbed "America's Greatest City" - which is reborn after two hellish years due to the Covid pandemic, the description adds .

"It was a chilling reminder during the pandemic of the vulnerability of even the most colossal and seemingly all-powerful; here we saw what lay ahead for the rest of the country. And the world. As soon as the first cases rose, Gotham has become the nation's nightmare at the heart of the coronavirus," the site reads.

New York, which has suffered from the pandemic, came third (
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The world's best cities announced - and there are a handful of UK hotspots named among the elite

The world's best cities have been ranked - with a handful of Britain's cultural hotspots ranked among the elite.

More than 50% of the locations in the top 10 of the World's Best Cities ranking were in Europe, with New York, Tokyo, Dubai and Singapore also making the ranking.

The rankings, which are compiled by real estate and tourism consultancy Resonance, look at six different categories: place, product, programming, people, prosperity and promotion.

They focus more on financial and business factors, such as the number of major tech companies in a given city, than other more vacation-focused rankings.

London, the capital of the United Kingdom, with a population of 11 million, took first place. It has been hailed for its incredible restaurants, has been a hit on social media as the "hashtag capital of the world" and has a slew of luxury properties that attract the mega-rich.

Our friends across the Channel followed a close second, with Paris hailed for attacking the pandemic with doctors, vaccinations and large-scale urban renewal.

Paris comes second in the standings (

Picture:

Getty Images/iStockphoto)

These included an "aggressive empowerment of self-propelled mobility" that included a city-wide speed limit of 30 km/h and an "obsessive" implementation of hundreds of miles of bike parks.

"It is the adhesion of the citizens to this audacity that definitively changes the fabric of the city", adds the company.

The next stop was the US East Coast hub, New York - dubbed "America's Greatest City" - which is reborn after two hellish years due to the Covid pandemic, the description adds .

"It was a chilling reminder during the pandemic of the vulnerability of even the most colossal and seemingly all-powerful; here we saw what lay ahead for the rest of the country. And the world. As soon as the first cases rose, Gotham has become the nation's nightmare at the heart of the coronavirus," the site reads.