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Bangkok Tops Global Facebook City List - Southeast Asia Real Time - WSJ

Bangkok Tops Global Facebook City List

By Newley Purnell

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Thai women walk past a Facebook logo displayed at a shopping mall in Bangkok.

There are more Facebook users in Bangkok than in any other world city. That is the somewhat surprising finding of a global ranking of the social networking behemoth’s users based on their metropolitan areas.

Bangkok has some 8.68 million Facebook users, followed by Jakarta (7.43 million) and Istanbul (7.07 million), according to a list published by the well-known international social media analytics company Socialbakers.

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