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Thanks to a gift in 2006 from my chums at Xerox Global Services in Edinburgh, I'm the proud owner of "The Cities Book".
It outlines the top 200 cities of the world, as collated by Lonely Planet, the people who produce a fantastic range of travel books.
The ranking has been created based on votes cast by Lonely Planet's staff, authors and readers.

I thought it would be a good idea to keep a checklist of those cities in the book that I have visited.
The list is shown below, with those cities that I've been to shown in bold type.

A new one for 2015... Venice. A wonderful city.

The year shown in brackets is when I first visited the city.
Where I've just travelled through a city, e.g. Mumbai (sitting in plane on runway), these have been excluded from the count.

CURRENT TOTAL SCORE (as at April 2015) : 44/200

Here goes ...

001 Paris, France (1980)
002 New York City, USA (2005)
003 Sydney, Australia (2004)
004 Barcelona, Spain
005 London, England (1978)
006 Rome, Italy
007 San Francisco, USA (2005)
008 Bangkok, Thailand (2004)
009 Cape Town, South Africa
010 Istanbul, Turkey
011 Melbourne, Australia (2004)
012 Hong Kong, China (2004)
013 Kathmandu, Nepal
014 Prague, Czech Republic (2004)
015 Vancouver, Canada (1999)
016 Buenos Aires, Argentina
017 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
018 Berlin, Germany
019 Jerusalem, Israel & the Palestinian Territories
020 Montreal, Canada (2005)
021 Edinburgh, Scotland (2000)
022 Venice, Italy (2015) 
023 Hanoi, Vietnam (2008)
024 Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2001)
025 Singapore, Singapore (2004)

026 Tokyo, Japan
027 Florence, Italy
028 Dublin, Ireland (2006)
029 Mexico City, Mexico
030 Krakow, Poland
031 Toronto, Canada (2005)
032 Cairo, Egypt
033 Budapest, Hungary
034 Chicago, USA (2008)
035 Havana, Cuba
036 Madrid, Spain (2010)
037 Munich, Germany
038 Athens, Greece
039 New Orleans, USA
040 Vienna, Austria
041 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2008)
042 Marrakesh, Morocco
043 Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina
044 Seville, Spain
045 Kyoto, Japan
046 Las Vegas, USA (2005)
047 Perth, Australia (2004)
048 Shanghai, China
049 Los Angeles, USA (2005)
050 Lisbon, Portugal (2007)

051 Stockholm, Sweden
052 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2008)
053 Damascus, Syria
054 Luang Prabang, Laos
055 Seattle, USA (2005)
056 Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2008)
057 St Petersburg, Russia
058 Cuzco, Peru
059 Dubrovnik, Croatia
060 Delhi, India
061 Moscow, Russia
062 Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
063 Beijing, China
064 Helsinki, Finland
065 Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India
066 Santiago de Chile, Chile
067 Fes, Morocco
068 Auckland, New Zealand (2004)
069 Manila, Philippines
070 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
071 Chiang Mai, Thailand
072 Varanasi, India
073 Cartagena, Colombia
074 Zanzibar Town, Tanzania
075 Innsbruck, Austria

076 York, England (2014)
077 Mumbai, India
078 Hamburg, Germany
079 Oaxaca City, Mexico
080 Galway, Ireland
081 Siena, Italy
082 Esfahan, Iran
083 Wellington, New Zealand (2005)
084 Ljubljana, Slovenia
085 Seoul, South Korea
086 San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
087 Taipei, Taiwan
088 Tallinn, Estonia
089 Lhasa, Tibet
090 Bled, Slovenia
091 Hobart, Australia (2004)
092 Jaipur, India
093 Brussels, Belgium (1990)
094 La Paz, Bolivia
095 Quebec City, Canada (2005)
096 Valparaiso, Chile
097 Naples, Italy
098 Memphis, USA
099 Heidelberg, Germany
100 Dhaka, Bangladesh

101 Amman, Jordan
102 Monaco, Monaco
103 Washington DC, USA (2005)
104 Quito, Ecuador
105 Christchurch, New Zealand (2005)
106 Glasgow, Scotland (2001)
107 Muscat, Oman
108 Panama City, Panama
109 Dakar, Senegal
110 Bratislava, Slovakia
111 San Sebastian, Spain
112 Bern, Switzerland
113 San Juan, Puerto Rico
114 Aleppo (Halab), Syria
115 Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2004)
116 Riga, Latvia
117 Asmara, Eritrea
118 Kabul, Afghanistan
119 Bath, England (1989)
120 Copenhagen, Denmark
121 Macau, China
122 Sofia, Bulgaria
123 Hoi An, Vietnam
124 Marseille, France
125 Zagreb, Croatia

126 Manchester, England (2011)
127 Antigua, Guatemala
128 Reykjavik, Iceland
129 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
130 Carcassonne, France
131 Lubeck, Germany
132 Tel Aviv, Israel
133 Hiroshima, Japan
134 Mendoza, Argentina
135 Nairobi, Kenya
136 Beirut, Lebanon
137 Vilnius, Lithuania
138 Montevideo, Uruguay
139 Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
140 Arequipa, Peru
141 Bucharest, Romania
142 Apia, Samoa
143 Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
144 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
145 Kiev, Ukraine
146 Bukhara, Uzbekistan
147 Male', The Maldives
148 Caracas, Venezuela
149 Tirana, Albania
150 Suva, Fiji

151 Tiblisi, Georgia
152 Agadez, Niger
153 Ushuaia, Argentina
154 Kampala, Uganda
155 Bogota, Colombia
156 Bridgetown, Barbados
157 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
158 Abuja, Nigeria
159 Christiansted, US Virgin Islands
160 San'a, Yemen
161 Livingstone, Zambia
162 Alexandria, Egypt
163 Belfast, Northern Ireland (2008)
164 Savannah, USA
165 Nuuk, Greenland
166 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
167 Johannesburg, South Africa
168 Kairouan, Tunisia
169 Austin, USA (2011)
170 San Salvador, El Salvador
171 Cardiff, Wales (2002)
172 Minsk, Belarus
173 Thimphu, Bhutan
174 Khartoum, Sudan
175 Anchorage, USA

176 Mecca, Saudi Arabia
177 Aswan, Egypt
178 Yerevan, Armenia
179 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (1993)
180 Georgetown, Malaysia
181 Maputo, Mozambique
182 Baku, Azerbaijan
183 Belize City, Belize
184 Essaouira, Morocco
185 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
186 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
187 Pyongyang, North Korea
188 Lahore, Pakistan
189 Cayenne, French Guiana
190 Almaty, Kazakhstan
191 Mombasa, Kenya
192 Valletta, Malta
193 Antananarivo, Madagascar
194 Miami, USA
195 Bamako, Mali
196 Saint-Denis, Reunion
197 Granada, Spain
198 Beira, Mozambique
199 Madang, Papua New Guinea
200 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan