An illustrative atlas of urban diversity

The Melting‑Pot Index

Ranking the world's cities by ethnic mixing — rewarding places that hold many distinct ethnic groups and where the nation's largest ethnic group is least dominant locally.

How the score works

A
Group richness. How many distinct ethnic groups live in the city — more groups, higher score.
B
Majority gap. The share the country's largest ethnic group holds in this city — the smaller that share, the higher the score.
Score = ½ · (A) group richness + ½ · (B) majority gap  →  0–100

⚠ Read this first

No dataset exists to rank every city on Earth for this. City-level ethnicity isn't recorded in any comparable global form, the definition of an "ethnic group" varies by country, and some nations (e.g. France) don't collect ethnic statistics at all.

So these are illustrative estimates for the most relevant cities per region — directionally sound, not precise figures. "Largest national group" uses the biggest single ethnic/ancestral group, with the European-origin majority treated as the national group in settler nations.