Pi League

Cities

Famous cities on every continent.

Every name is spelled on a phone keypad (ABC = 2, DEF = 3 … WXYZ = 9), with spaces, accents and punctuation left out, and ranked by where those digits first turn up in π. Two names on the same spot are listed A to Z.

Cities by first appearance in π
Rank	Name	Decimal place
1	Doha	4,849
2	Dhaka	6,020
3	Osaka	6,532
4	Oslo	7,728
5	Delhi	10,451
6	Lima	10,915
7	Rome	12,755
8	Hanoi	15,097
9	Accra	36,922
10	Madrid	63,580
11	Miami	73,219
12	Vienna	80,005
13	Kyoto	84,927
14	Dubai	85,142
15	Paris	100,092
16	Venice	127,366
17	Seoul	182,721
18	Bangkok	215,052
19	Porto	265,123
20	Cairo	281,911
21	Lagos	290,136
22	Kraków	341,144
23	Tokyo	426,447
24	Milan	440,438
25	Geneva	461,043
26	London	511,404
27	Boston	521,103
28	Tehran	560,454
29	Moscow	595,670
30	Manila	606,224
31	Dublin	613,726
32	Havana	659,926
33	Berlin	686,518
34	Cardiff	696,104
35	Mumbai	738,132
36	Bogotá	747,758
37	Athens	860,307
38	Zurich	872,499
39	Naples	1,048,031
40	Lahore	1,170,713
41	Taipei	1,230,091
42	Warsaw	1,485,673
43	Prague	1,813,913
44	Riyadh	1,815,074
45	Lisbon	2,103,317
46	Sydney	2,303,152
47	Munich	2,684,093
48	Kolkata	3,136,314
49	Glasgow	3,821,185
50	Jakarta	5,146,919
51	Colombo	5,804,151
52	Nairobi	8,552,455
53	Belfast	10,686,461
54	Karachi	11,060,471
55	Toronto	11,774,207
56	Beijing	13,040,195
57	Chicago	14,231,333
58	Hamburg	15,829,219
59	Houston	15,888,141
60	Chennai	17,346,560
61	Los Angeles	22,386,983
62	New York	23,081,790
63	Helsinki	24,543,917
64	Istanbul	29,847,888
65	Abu Dhabi	33,976,948
66	Hong Kong	37,910,200
67	Seattle	39,810,177
68	Las Vegas	75,509,994
69	Shanghai	122,503,338
70	Bengaluru	149,610,413
71	Cape Town	167,651,591
72	Florence	176,439,238
73	Montreal	179,595,770
74	Brussels	182,170,466
75	Santiago	182,616,491
76	São Paulo	194,465,375
77	Auckland	253,009,866
78	Edinburgh	311,734,234
79	Budapest	334,809,984
80	Melbourne	384,188,389
81	Wellington	426,689,509
82	Kathmandu	437,762,896
83	Manchester	514,060,325
84	Amsterdam	528,387,518
85	Hyderabad	663,814,517
86	Singapore	827,129,390
87	Stockholm	1,055,523,602
88	Vancouver	1,267,678,986
89	Copenhagen	1,388,945,784
90	Liverpool	1,721,359,413
91	Marrakesh	1,944,480,625
92	Barcelona	2,197,406,422
93	Reykjavík	2,239,043,290
94	Johannesburg*	2,641,072,283
95	San Francisco*	2,701,453,934
96	Addis Ababa	4,738,328,299
97	Washington	4,867,840,818
98	Kuala Lumpur*	8,130,440,497
99	Saint Petersburg*	13,123,473,381
100	Ho Chi Minh City*	14,191,415,951
101	Rio de Janeiro*	23,209,613,792
102	Casablanca	26,474,133,427
103	Mexico City	32,755,091,839
104	Buenos Aires*	43,137,567,958

* Longer than 10 digits on the keypad: too long to look up whole, so it is ranked by its longest piece (7 to 10 digits) that we found.