In Pictures: Cities With The Most Billionaires

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Cities With The Most Billionaires

More of the World's Billionaires claim residence in these 15 metropolises than anywhere else around the globe.


1. Moscow

Number of Billionaires: 79
Total combined wealth: $375.3 billion

Billionaires include: Russia's richest man, steel magnate Vladmimir Lisin; commodities investor and Chelsea soccer team owner Roman Abramovich; and venture capitalist and Facebook investor Yuri Milner.


2. New York

Number of Billionaires: 59
Total combined wealth: $220.8 billion



3. London

Number of Billionaires: 41
Total combined wealth: $164.3 billion

Billionaires include: Indian citizen Lakshmi Mittal, the world's sixth-richest man thanks to steel-maker ArcelorMittal; daredevil Virgin founder Richard Branson; and Philip & Christina Green, the married couple behind clothing company Topshop.


4. Hong Kong

Number of Billionaires: 40
Total combined wealth: $176.8 billion

Billionaires include: Greater China's richest person, Hutchison Whampoa chairman Li Ka-shing; the Kwok family, the brothers behind Hong Kong's largest real estate developer, SHKP; and Angela Leong, the controversial heiress of Stanely Ho's casino empire.


5. Istanbul

Number of Billionaires: 36
Total combined wealth: $60.5 billion

Billionaires include: Turkey's richest person, Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, chairman of mobile phone company Turkcell; Turkey's former richest, finance and retail scion, Husnu Ozyegin; and Macedonian-born Sarik Tara, founder of construction giant, ENKA.


6. Mumbai (tie)

Number of Billionaires: 21
Total combined wealth: $106.6 billion

Billionaires include: Mukesh Ambani, chairman of energy powerhouse Reliance Industries and owner of the world's most expensive home; the Ruia brothers, who run family firm Essar Group; and commodities magnate Kumar Birla of the prominent Birla family.


6. Sao Paulo (tie)

Number of Billionaires: 21
Total combined wealth: $84.8 billion

Billionaires include: Jorge Paulo Lemann, large stakeholder in Anheuser-Busch and new co-owner of Burger King; Banco Safra owner Joseph Safra; and the world's first ethanol billionaire, Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello.


8. Taipei (tie)

Number of Billionaires: 19
Total combined wealth: $49.4 billion

Billionaires include: tech's most powerful woman, Cher Wang; financial services guru Tsai Wan-tsai, founder of Fubon Group; and notebook computer manufacturer Barry Lam of Quanta Computer of Taiwan.


8. Los Angeles (tie)

Number of Billionaires: 19
Total combined wealth: $44.3 billion

Billionaires include: investor-turned-arts patron Eli Broad, Jeffrey Skoll, who got rich as eBay's first president, and investor Michael Milken, the so-called "Junk Bond King."


8. Beijing (tie)

Number of Billionaires: 19
Total combined wealth: $40 billion

Billionaires include: Robin Li, founder of Baidu, China's largest Internet search site; real estate maven Wu Yajun, the world's richest self-made woman; and fellow female property developer Zhang Xin, who runs Soho China with husband.


11. San Francisco (tie)

Number of Billionaires: 17
Total combined wealth: $54.6 billion

Billionaires include: Google cofounder Sergey Brin; Getty Oil heir Gordon Getty; and hedge funder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel, also PayPal's cofounder.


11. Dallas (tie)

Number of Billionaires: 17
Total combined wealth: $45.7 billion

Billionaires include: former presidential candidate and computer services scion Henry Ross Perot, Sr.; cofounder and Dallas Mavericks basketball team owner Mark Cuban; and oil baron-turned-clean energy proponent T. Boone Pickens.


13. Shanghai

Number of Billionaires: 16
Total combined wealth: $35.5 billion

Billionaires include: Liu Yongxing, founder of livestock feed producer East Hope Group; tailor-turned retail magnate Zhou Chengjian of Metersbonwe; and Guo Guangchang, founder of conglomerate Fosun International.


14. Seoul

Number of Billionaires: 15
Total combined wealth: $37.7 billion

Billionaires include: Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-Hee; Chun Mong-Koo, chairman of Hynudai Motor; and LG Group Chairman Koo Bon-Moo.


15. Tokyo, Japan

Number of Billionaires: 14
Total combined wealth: $49.6 billion

Billionaires include: Masayoshi Son, founder of Internet and telecom company, Softbank; Chairman and CEO Tadashi Yanai of Fast Retailing, which owns brands like Helmut Lang and Uniqlo; and Yoshikazu Tanaka, founder of Japan's largest social networking site, Gree.
