The World's Most Cosmopolitan Cities

Seoul and many other large Asian cities have seen huge growth levels in their foreign-born residents in recent years. Even though the number of foreigners living in the South Korean capital has doubled in the last decade, it still doesn't rank among the very top cities worldwide for residents born abroad.

2015's World Migration Report compiled by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) found that 83 percent of people living in Dubai were born in other countries. Brussels hosts a number of key EU institutions as well as the NATO headquarters. Approximately six out of every 10 residents in the Belgian capital comes from another country.

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This chart shows the foreign-born population in major cities in 2014.

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Breakdown of selected metropolitan areas around the world with the largest percentage of foreign-born residents, as of 2009
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Percentage of population who are foreign-born in select major cities worldwide in 2015
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Leading ten Italian cities with the highest proportion of foreign-born residents as of 2016
Foreign population of Belgium in 2020, by origin
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Share of the foreign-born population of Switzerland 2017, by country of origin
Number of foreigners residing in Rome municipality in 2025, by country of origin

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