Ipsos, a market research organization, recently conducted a poll to find The World's Favorite City.
The company polled more than 18,000 people in 24 countries to find out the best cities to do business in, live in, and visit.
Ipsos then tallied the responses to determine which global cities ranked the highest across all three categories.
The overall winner this year was New York, followed by London, Paris, Abu Dhabi, and Sydney. Zurich was named the world's best city to live, while New York was voted the top city for business. Paris was the best city to visit, Ipsos found.
The most interesting part of the Ipsos study, however, was that it looked at what individual countries thought were the best cities. Some countries had a lot of national pride — Japan, for instance, ranked Tokyo as number one in all three categories.
On the other hand, Madrid failed to even make the top 10 list in Spain. The Spanish public was much more eager to live in either Stockholm, Zurich, or Berlin.
Check out the full list of each country's favorite overall city below, and explore the entire interactive study here.
Argentina's favorite city is New York
Australia loves its native Sydney
Belgium rated New York as its favorite city
Brazil chose New York as the best, too
Canada hearts Toronto
China thinks Hong Kong is the greatest city
France loves Paris
Germany chose Berlin as its favorite city
Great Britain thinks New York is the best world city
Hungary rated Zurich the highest
India's favorite city is Singapore
Italy rated New York as its favorite city
Japan really, really loves Tokyo
Mexico chose Paris as its favorite city
Poland also chose Paris as the best
Russia picked Paris, too
Saudi Arabia loves Abu Dhabi
South Africa's favorite world city is New York
South Korea is very proud of Seoul
Spain voted New York as the best city
Sweden also chose New York
Turkey loves its Istanbul
And the United States hearts New York
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