Cities with most billionaires in 2025

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10. Los Angeles

According to Forbes’ latest World’s Billionaires list, Los Angeles has 56 billionaires worth a combined $243 billion asset including Rihanna, LeBron James and newcomer Arnold Schwarzernegger. 

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8. (tie) San Francisco

San Francisco’s 58 billionaires are worth $217 billion. Seven of San Francisco’s nine newcomers are cofounders of generative AI company Anthropic, including brother and sister Dario and Daniela Amodei. 

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8. (tie) Shanghai

Shanghai also has 58 billionaires. Colin Huang, cofounder of PDD Holdings (parent company of Temu) is the richest resident of the city. 

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7. Singapore

Home to 60 billionaires worth a collective $259 billion, Singapore stands at number 7. Zhang Yiming ($65.5 billion), a Chinese citizen and the main cofounder and former chairman of ByteDance, best known for its app TikTok, is the richest person in China and resides in Singapore. 

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6. Mumbai

With 67 billionaires in total, Mumbai stood at number 6 in the list. Mukesh Ambani ($92.5 billion), the chairman of Reliance Industries, remains Asia’s richest person, despite a more than $20 billion decline in his fortune in the past year.

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5. Beijing

China's capital has five more billionaires since last year, taking the total to 68. The Beijing billionaires include Lei Jun, cofounder and CEO of smartphone maker Xiaomi.

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4. London

London is home to 71 billionaires. Len Blavatnik is once again the richest resident of the UK capital with nearly half of his $29.9 billion comes from Warner Music. 

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3. Hong Kong

The list of billionaires in Hong Kong has two newcomers: crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun ($8.5 billion) and Yang Qiumei ($1.6 billion) of SenseTime AI. The city has 72 billionaires in total. 

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2. Moscow

Moscow had a huge leap in the number of billionaires from last year as the count jumped from 74 to 90. Oil magnate Vagit Alekperov is the wealthiest person living in Russia’s capital.  

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1. New York City

For the fourth consecutive year, New York is the most popular city of billionaires. Home to 123 billionaires, former mayor and financial data tycoon Michael Bloomberg ($105 billion) is the city’s richest resident. 

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