List of financial districts
This is a list of financial districts in cities around the world.
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Background
A financial district is usually a central area in a city where financial services firms such as banks, insurance companies and other related finance corporations have their head offices. In major cities, financial districts are often home to skyscrapers and other buildings of architectural importance and are called financial centres; such major centres also include important financial utilities such as stock exchanges and the offices of the main financial regulatory authorities.
List
Notable financial districts around the world include the following:
Africa
Algeria
- Algiers (الجزائر): Bab Ezzouar (باب الزوار)
Kenya
Mauritius
- Port Louis: Place D'armes
Morocco
- Casablanca (الدار البيضاء): Anfa (أنفا), Maârif (المعاريف), Sidi Belyout (سيدي بليوط), Sidi Maârouf (سيدي معروف), Bouskoura (بو سكورة)
South Africa
Americas
Argentina
- Buenos Aires: Microcentro and Diagonal Norte
Brazil
Canada
- Montreal: Saint Jacques Street
- Toronto: Financial District (Bay Street, a metonym for the district)
- Vancouver: Financial District
Chile
- Santiago: Sanhattan
Mexico
- Guadalajara: Puerta de Hierro
- Mexico City: Polanco, Paseo de la Reforma, and Santa Fe
- Monterrey: Valle Oriente
Paraguay
- Asuncion: Aviadores del Chaco Avenue
Peru
United States
- Atlanta: Buckhead
- Boston: Financial District
- Charlotte: Uptown
- Chicago: LaSalle Street
- Denver: Financial District
- Detroit: Financial District
- Hartford: Financial District
- Houston: Skyline District
- Jacksonville: Laura Street
- Los Angeles: Financial District
- Miami: Brickell
- New York City: Financial District, Midtown Manhattan
- Philadelphia: Penn Center
- Salt Lake City: Financial District
- San Francisco: Financial District
- Seattle: Financial District
- Des Moines: Financial District
Oceania
Australia
New Zealand
Asia
Bangladesh
China
India
- Mumbai: Dalal Street and Bandra-Kurla Complex
- Hyderabad: Nanakramguda
Indonesia
Israel
Japan
- Nagoya: Naka-ku
- Osaka: Chūō-ku
- Tokyo: Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, and Otemachi
Lebanon
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Taiwan
Vietnam
Europe
Belgium
France
- Lille: Euralille
- Lyon: La Part-Dieu
- Marseille: Euroméditerranée
- Paris: La Défense
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
- Milan: Centro Direzionale di Milano and Porta Nuova
- Naples: Centro Direzionale di Napoli
- Rome: EUR
Portugal
Russia
- Moscow: Moscow International Business Centre, Kitay-gorod, and Tverskoy District
Switzerland
- Zurich: Paradeplatz
United Kingdom
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