Stockholm should be on The Indepedent's World cities list

...at least if Copenhagen is there, and it is. Now I may sound like a whining Swede, and, ehrm, yes that is true. Come to think of it maybe I prefer Copenhagen before Stockholm...

Such thoughts aside, there is of course a long rivalry between these two Nordic cities, being roughly equal in population, and easily the largest cities in the region.

The Independent has made a reasonably thorough ranking of World Cities, but they left out Stockholm. However since the Independent kindly explained all their criteria it is easy to fill Stockholm in.

The ranking table in Excel format may be downloaded here. I inserted Stockholm below Copenhagen for a comparison:

The Independent has  a list of criteria and how to normalise them.

Population: Copied Copenhagens figure

Flights per week. Found passengers per year and factored in (through introspection) the flights from Skavsta (Ryanair) and Bromma (City Airport). Then entered same number as for CPH.

Market Capitalization World Exchanges Annual report (pdf),

Time out - Don't have access to the source. Put in a question mark.

3M stars  Don't have access to the source. Put in a question mark.

Capitals 2 points.

Forbes - Zero.

SOs i think there's two?

Olympics-  Stockholm 1912

Antal google-träffar - 95 millions, twice that of Copenhagen

Metro - Source  Wikipedia, multiplied by percentage of stations underground.

Guides - Don't have access to the source. Put in a question mark.

48 hrs -  Don't have access to the source. Put in a question mark.

Unesco - Included Birka, Skogskyrkogården and Drottningholm

 Maybe Birka and Drottningholm are too far out. Source.

As long as Stockholm scores at least 4 points in the categories wher i put in question marks, Stockholm will be ahead.