ABSTRACT
The chapters on countries and sub-regions have each told a separate story that relates the statistics to the context and history of particular sections of the world city network. What emerges is the diversity of city patterns in terms of general connectivities, localism and orientations towards NYLON and the emerging Chinese city triad. In this final conclusion the statistical results are compared between countries and sub-regions to provide an overview of the geography of the world city network in these key dimensions.
