Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe
docs(markets): trim ranking-disclaimer repetition to one per page, reconcile T1-T4 tier definitions to co-location-tier-system's canonical 4-tier gate model
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ quality: complete status: active audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact short_description: "The 400 European Regional Markets published from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries. No rank or score is published; country tables carry the market-level detail." short_description: "The 400 European Regional Markets published from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries; country tables carry the market-level detail." paired_with: markets/atlas-top-400-europe.es.md last_edited: 2026-09-06 editor: editorial @@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ in a market isolated from any other qualifying market beyond the outer geographi Of the four hundred European entries, 399 qualify as Regional Markets and one as a District Anchor. No European entry qualifies as a Standalone Regional Centre. Selection from the qualifying pool takes the highest-scoring 400 per continent, with no per-country budget. A small per-country minimum floor prevents a country with real qualifying markets from being excluded outright, but does not otherwise affect ordering. A composite score supports that selection internally and is never surfaced to a reader. The published order is alphabetical, not ordinal. The per-country counts below are therefore an observed result of the cutoff, not a quota. Selection from the qualifying pool takes the 400 markets with the strongest anchor composition per continent, with no per-country budget. A small per-country minimum floor prevents a country with real qualifying markets from being excluded outright, but does not otherwise affect which markets are included. The published order is alphabetical, not ordinal — no market-to-market comparison is published. The per-country counts below are therefore an observed result of the cutoff, not a quota. Catchment population and consumer-spend figures accompany each market as descriptive context. They take no part in selection. Population is negatively correlated with the composition score in every