Capital and largest city of Denmark, Copenhagen is spread on the Islands of Zealand and Amager, linked to Malmo by car and rail roads. Copenhagen and Malmo are in fact integrating their labor markets. Copenhagen has been ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world, one of the most important business cities in Scandinavia and the Nordic Region, a cultural world city.

The city of Copenhagen is frequently mentioned in “best city” surveys, based on different criteria. All worldwide and regional surveys where Copenhagen appears in the rankings presented on this site are listed below. Continue reading »

With Saint Paul, the capital of Minnesota, Minneapolis is known as one of the Twin Cities. Minneapolis is just larger and lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, at the river’s confluence with the Minnesota River. In fact, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota.

Metropolitan area of the Twin Cities has over 3 million residents, with different cultures and backgrounds. Its name comes from the “City of Lakes” and the “Mill City”. Throughout the city, neighborhoods house unique shops and ethnic eateries. Continue reading »

Dusseldorf is maybe the city with the best quality of life from Germany. Capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf is also an economic centre, situated on the River Rhine.

With a high population density (the metropolitan area alone has over 10 million inhabitants), Dusseldorf is renowned for its many events and for its fashion and trade fairs. Much of Dusseldorf’s Altstadt quarter is well pedestrianised. This is a great place where tourists begin their sightseeing. Continue reading »

Luxembourg is a parliamentary representative democracy with a constitutional monarch, a city and almost a country by itself. It is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany, with a small population of under half a million people.

It is the world’s only remaining sovereign Grand Duchy. The old medieval city of Luxembourg-Ville (the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) is built on the rocky Bock Peninsula, between the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers. Continue reading »

Boston was founded in the 17th century by Puritan colonists from England. It is today the capital and largest city of the state of Massachusetts. Located in Suffolk County, in the northeastern United States, Boston is the largest city and the economic and cultural center of the New England.

The downtown is concentrated in the Cambridge–Boston-Quincy metropolitan area. Boston became in time a major shipping port and manufacturing center, and has expanded beyond the peninsula. Continue reading »