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 headquarters offices. In major cities, financial districts often host 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) Belouizdad, Algiers (بلوزداد) Hydra, Algiers (حيدرة) Egypt Cairo: Downtown Cairo Giza: Mohandessin Alexandria: Central District Port Said: East Port Said New Capital: Central Business District Kenya
Nairobi: Upper Hill
Nigeria Lagos: Lagos Island, Marina Lagos is a financial district.
Mauritius Port Louis: Place D'armes Place D’ armes is financial district in Port Louis
Morocco Casablanca (الدار البيضاء): Anfa (أنفا), Maârif (المعاريف), Sidi Belyout (سيدي بليوط), Sidi Maârouf (سيدي معروف), Bouskoura (بو سكورة)
South Africa Johannesburg: Sandton Cape Town: Cape Town CBD
Americas
Argentina Buenos Aires: Microcentro and Diagonal Norte Córdoba: Central Area (Centro, Alto Alberdi, Alberdi, Barrio Nueva Córdoba, Gral. Pueyrredón) Rosario: Puerto Norte and Córdoba Avenue
Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Centro São Paulo: Alphaville, Brooklin Novo, Central Zone, Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue, Paulista Avenue, and Vila Olímpia
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 Puebla: Angelópolis
Paraguay Asunción: Aviadores del Chaco Avenue
Peru Lima: San Isidro, Miraflores and Historic Centre Arequipa: Cayma
United States Atlanta: Buckhead Boston: Financial District Charlotte: Uptown Chicago: the Loop Cincinnati: Financial District Denver: Financial District Detroit: Financial District Greenwich, Connecticut: Downtown Greenwich Hartford, Connecticut: Financial District Houston: Downtown, Uptown Jacksonville: Laura Street Los Angeles: Financial District Miami: Brickell New Orleans: Central Business District New York City: Financial District New York City: Midtown Manhattan Philadelphia: Penn Center Salt Lake City: Financial District San Francisco: Financial District San Juan: Milla de Oro Seattle: Financial District Stamford, Connecticut: Downtown Stamford Des Moines: Financial District
Uruguay Montevideo: Centro and Ciudad Vieja
Oceania
Australia Sydney: Sydney central business district Melbourne: Melbourne central business district Brisbane: Brisbane central business district Perth: Perth central business district Adelaide: Adelaide central business district Darwin: Darwin central business district
New Zealand Auckland: Central Business District (CBD)
Asia
Azerbaijan Baku: Sabail Baku: Keshla
Bangladesh Chittagong: Agrabad Dhaka: Motijheel Dhaka: Gulshan Dhaka: Kawran Bazar
China Beijing: Beijing Financial Street Shanghai: Lujiazui in Pudong Shenzhen: Futian District Guangzhou: Zhujiang New Town
Hong Kong Central and Sheung Wan
India Delhi: Connaught Place Gandhinagar: GIFT International Financial Services Centre, GIFT City Mumbai: Dalal Street, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Fort, Nariman Point, Colaba, Worli and South Mumbai Kolkata: B.B.D. Bagh, Park Circus, Salt Lake Sector V, New Town CBD Hyderabad: Financial District, Hyderabad, Bank Street, Hyderabad and Gachibowli Trivandrum: Technopark Navi Mumbai: CBD Belapur
Indonesia Jakarta: Jalan H.R. Rasuna Said, Jalan Jenderal Gatot Subroto, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, and Jalan M.H. Thamrin
Israel Tel Aviv: Rothschild Boulevard
Japan Nagoya: Naka-ku Osaka: Chūō-ku Tokyo: Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, and Otemachi
Lebanon Beirut: Central District
Malaysia George Town: George Town CBD Kuala Lumpur: Kuala Lumpur City Centre and Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) Shah Alam, Selangor: i-City Finance Avenue and i-City (i-City)
Pakistan Karachi: I. I. Chundrigar Road
Philippines Makati: Makati Central Business District Pasig: Ortigas Center Taguig: Bonifacio Global City
Saudi Arabia Riyadh: King Abdullah Financial District, King Fahad Road, Al Olaya District, Digital City, Riyadh Front, Business Gate and Granada Business.
Singapore Shenton Way, Raffles Place
South Korea Seoul: Downtown Seoul, Yeouido and Teheranno (Gangnam) Busan: Nam District
Taiwan Taipei: Xinyi, Taipei Station and East End, Banqiao. Taichung: Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone Kaohsiung: Lingya, Cianjin
Thailand Bangkok: Sathorn and Silom
Turkey Istanbul: Istanbul Financial Center, Levent, Maslak and Ümraniye
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City: Financial District, Saigon (District 1) and Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area Hanoi: Hoàn Kiếm District and Ba Đình District
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abu Dhabi: Al Maryah Island Dubai: Business Bay
Europe
Austria Vienna: Wienerberg and Donau City
Belgium Brussels: Northern Quarter
France Lille: Euralille Lyon: La Part-Dieu Marseille: Euroméditerranée Paris: La Défense
Germany Berlin: Potsdamer Platz Frankfurt: Bankenviertel
Greece Athens: Sofokleous Street Thessaloniki, Egnatia Street
Ireland Dublin: International Financial Services Centre (IFSC)
Italy Milan: Centro Direzionale di Milano, Porta Nuova and City life Naples: Centro Direzionale di Napoli Rome: EUR Brescia: Brescia Due Livorno: viale Cairoli
Lithuania Vilnius: Vilnius Central Business District
Netherlands Amsterdam: Zuidas and Damrak
Norway Oslo: Sentrum Bergen: Bergenhus
Poland Warsaw: Downtown Służewiec (Mordor) Wola Katowice: Śródmieście
Portugal Lisbon: Lisbon Baixa, Parque das Nações, Avenidas Novas
Romania Bucharest: Floreasca
Russia Moscow: Moscow International Business Centre, Presnensky District, and Tverskoy District
Spain Barcelona: 22@ and Granvia l'Hospitalet Madrid: AZCA and CTBA
Switzerland Zurich: Paradeplatz
Turkey Istanbul: Levent, Maslak
United Kingdom London: City of London, Lombard Street, London and Canary Wharf Leeds: Financial Quarter Glasgow: International Financial Services District
See also Central business district Financial centre