Table 1: The Global Network Connectivity of WA/NA Cities
 

Table 2: Four Types of Service Centres
 

TYPE	CITY	ACC	ADV	B/F	INS	LAW	MC
A	Beirut Jeddah Kuwait Tel Aviv	X X X X	X X X X
B	Cairo Casablanca Nicosia Dubai	X X X X	X X X X	X X	X X	X
C	Abu Dhabi Riyadh	X X		X		X	X
D	Istanbul Manama		X	X X

X indicates above average contribution of a sector to a city’s global network connectivity

Table 3: Four Types of Hinterworlds
 

CITIES	T Y P E	WA/NA	OTHER OUTER REGIONS						SERVICE CORE REGIONS
			L. AM	SC AN	E. EU	SS AF	S. AS	OUT SUM	N. AM	W. EU	P. AS	AUS	CORSUM
														TOTAL NO. OF CITIES		12	11	4	9	5	6	47	29	27	13	7	76
CASABL’NCA TEL AVIV CAIRO BEIRUT RIYADH JEDDAH KUWAIT	A A A A A A A	9 7 7 6 8 8 7	3 6 3 6 1 1 4	3 3 0 3 1 3 4	6 4 7 6 4 3 4	2 2 2 2 3 0 2	2 2 2 2 3 5 0	25 24 21 25 20 20 21	1 1 0 0 4 4 3	4 3 5 3 4 4 5	0 2 4 1 1 1 1	0 0 0 1 1 1 0	5 6 9 5 10 10 9
NICOSIA DUBAI	B B	8 6	2 3	4 2	2 3	2 2	0 0	18 16	1 0	8 9	0 2	3 3	12 14
MANAMA ISTANBUL	C C	6 4	2 4	0 1	2 7	3 2	1 1	14 19	1 0	4 2	10 9	1 0	16 11
ABU DHABI	D	3	1	0	1	0	1	6	6	10	4	4	24
CITY TOTALS		79	36	24	49	22	19	229	21	61	35	14	131

Regions: WA/NA West Asia/North Africa; L.AM Latin America; SCAN Scandinavia; E.EU Eastern Europe (former Soviet bloc); SSAF Sub-Saharan Africa; S.AS South Asia; N.AM Northern America; W.EU Western Europe (not including Scandinavia); P.AS Pacific Asia; AUS Australasia.
 

Figure 1: Global Network Connectivity of WA-NA Cities

Figure 2: Global Network Connectivity of WA-NA Cities