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Paris (France)1549

The worldwide ranking generated by 14.9k votes

191 / 191

Paris (France)1549

Tokyo (Japan)1495

Sofia (Bulgaria)1477

Rome (Italy)1453

Dublin (Ireland)1437

Ottawa (Canada)1430

Bern (Switzerland)1421

Beijing (China)1391

Madrid (Spain)1373

#10

Brasília (Brazil)1370

#11

Oslo (Norway)1363

#12

Stockholm (Sweden)1359

#13

Bratislava (Slovakia)1357

#14

Hanoi (Vietnam)1349

#15

Helsinki (Finland)1342

#16

Brussels (Belgium)1337

#17

Luxembourg (Luxembourg)1332

#18

Lisbon (Portugal)1330

#19

Chișinău (Moldova)1326

#20

Copenhagen (Denmark)1325

#21

Amsterdam (Netherlands)1322

#22

Asunción (Paraguay)1320

#23

Santiago (Chile)1319

#24

Athens (Greece)1313

#25

Vienna (Austria)1312

#26

Valletta (Malta)1309

#27

Wellington (New Zealand)1305

#28

Berlin (Germany)1303

#29

London (United Kingdom)1303

#30

San Marino (San Marino)1300

#31

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)1296

#32

Riga (Latvia)1294

#33

Reykjavik (Iceland)1294

#34

Warsaw (Poland)1291

#35

Belgrade (Serbia)1291

#36

Bangkok (Thailand)1287

#37

Phnom Penh (Cambodia)1285

#38

Montevideo (Uruguay)1284

#39

Tallinn (Estonia)1283

#40

Monaco (Monaco)1282

#41

New Delhi (India)1282

#42

Lima (Peru)1279

#43

Ljubljana (Slovenia)1278

#44

Taipei (Taiwan)1274

#45

Seoul (South Korea)1272

#46

Managua (Nicaragua)1271

#47

Vilnius (Lithuania)1267

#48

Yerevan (Armenia)1264

#49

Dodoma (Tanzania)1263

#50

Singapore (Singapore)1261

#51

Skopje (North Macedonia)1259

#52

San José (Costa Rica)1254

#53

Lomé (Togo)1254

#54

Nairobi (Kenya)1253

#55

Andorra la Vella (Andorra)1252

#56

Mbabane (Eswatini)1247

#57

Mexico City (Mexico)1246

#58

Tirana (Albania)1246

#59

Jakarta (Indonesia)1246

#60

Suva (Fiji)1245

#61

Yaoundé (Cameroon)1245

#62

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)1243

#63

Tbilisi (Georgia)1241

#64

Zagreb (Croatia)1240

#65

Saint John's (Antigua and Barbuda)1239

#66

Washington D.C. (United States)1238

#67

Kathmandu (Nepal)1234

#68

Vaduz (Liechtenstein)1234

#69

Belmopan (Belize)1234

#70

Jerusalem (Israel)1231

#71

Minsk (Belarus)1228

#72

Paramaribo (Suriname)1227

#73

Victoria (Seychelles)1224

#74

Port Louis (Mauritius)1223

#75

Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)1222

#76

Havana (Cuba)1217

#77

Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)1216

#78

Buenos Aires (Argentina)1215

#79

Vatican City (Vatican)1209

#80

Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)1206

#81

Praia (Cape Verde)1205

#82

Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)1203

#83

Bridgetown (Barbados)1203

#84

Castries (Saint Lucia)1202

#85

Prague (Czech Republic)1202

#86

Budapest (Hungary)1201

#87

Nassau (Bahamas)1201

#88

Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei)1199

#89

Georgetown (Guyana)1199

#90

Manila (Philippines)1197

#91

Canberra (Australia)1196

#92

Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast)1194

#93

Nicosia (Cyprus)1191

#94

San Salvador (El Salvador)1189

#95

Accra (Ghana)1188

#96

Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)1187

#97

Panama City (Panama)1184

#98

Doha (Qatar)1184

#99

Porto-Novo (Benin)1184

#100

Quito (Ecuador)1183

#101

Cairo (Egypt)1183

#102

Bogotá (Colombia)1182

#103

Honiara (Solomon Islands)1181

#104

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)1181

#105

Kingston (Jamaica)1180

#106

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)1180

#107

Harare (Zimbabwe)1179

#108

Conakry (Guinea)1178

#109

Bangui (Central African Republic)1178

#110

Asmara (Eritrea)1177

#111

Nouakchott (Mauritania)1175

#112

Podgorica (Montenegro)1175

#113

Astana (Kazakhstan)1175

#114

Tunis (Tunisia)1174

#115

Amman (Jordan)1173

#116

La Paz (Bolivia)1172

#117

Manama (Bahrain)1171

#118

Roseau (Dominica)1171

#119

Palikir (Micronesia)1170

#120

Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)1170

#121

Port-au-Prince (Haiti)1170

#122

Gaborone (Botswana)1170

#123

Bamako (Mali)1167

#124

Saint George's (Grenada)1166

#125

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Sri Lanka)1165

#126

Vientiane (Laos)1164

#127

Kyiv (Ukraine)1161

#128

Guatemala City (Guatemala)1161

#129

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)1156

#130

Rabat (Morocco)1154

#131

Apia (Samoa)1154

#132

Funafuti (Tuvalu)1154

#133

Niamey (Niger)1150

#134

Windhoek (Namibia)1148

#135

Maputo (Mozambique)1148

#136

Antananarivo (Madagascar)1148

#137

Freetown (Sierra Leone)1148

#138

Thimphu (Bhutan)1146

#139

Majuro (Marshall Islands)1145

#140

Banjul (Gambia)1144

#141

Malé (Maldives)1143

#142

Islamabad (Pakistan)1138

#143

Port Vila (Vanuatu)1136

#144

Ankara (Turkey)1134

#145

Tegucigalpa (Honduras)1133

#146

Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)1131

#147

Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)1126

#148

Libreville (Gabon)1125

#149

Kampala (Uganda)1120

#150

Luanda (Angola)1119

#151

Naypyidaw (Myanmar)1118

#152

Caracas (Venezuela)1117

#153

Ashgabat (Turkmenistan)1116

#154

Pretoria (South Africa)1116

#155

Ngerulmud (Palau)1116

#156

Mogadishu (Somalia)1114

#157

Dakar (Senegal)1112

#158

Basseterre (Saint Kitts and Nevis)1111

#159

Nuku'alofa (Tonga)1111

#160

Pristina (Kosovo)1111

#161

Dhaka (Bangladesh)1110

#162

Sana'a (Yemen)1106

#163

Maseru (Lesotho)1105

#164

Tarawa (Kiribati)1104

#165

Djibouti (Djibouti)1104

#166

Muscat (Oman)1094

#167

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)1092

#168

Baku (Azerbaijan)1088

#169

Monrovia (Liberia)1087

#170

Kuwait City (Kuwait)1082

#171

Kabul (Afghanistan)1082

#172

Lusaka (Zambia)1081

#173

N'Djamena (Chad)1076

#174

Algiers (Algeria)1069

#175

Dushanbe (Tajikistan)1069

#176

Lilongwe (Malawi)1068

#177

São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe)1061

#178

Tashkent (Uzbekistan)1058

#179

Beirut (Lebanon)1054

#180

Dili (East Timor)1032

#181

Kigali (Rwanda)1025

#182

Tehran (Iran)1025

#183

Baghdad (Iraq)1024

#184

Moroni (Comoros)1016

#185

Khartoum (Sudan)1014

#186

Ramallah (Palestine)1010

#187

Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)989

#188

Juba (South Sudan)988

#189

Damascus (Syria)987

#190

Tripoli (Libya)984

#191

Pyongyang (North Korea)925

What the community says

Paris (France) leads with an ELO of 1,549, ahead of Tokyo (Japan) (1,495) and Sofia (Bulgaria) (1,477). Ranked over 14,918 duels between 191 contenders, last updated October 6, 2026.

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How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.