Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe
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@@ -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 under the 2026-08-07 dataset, 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. No rank or score is published; country tables carry the market-level detail." paired_with: markets/atlas-top-400-europe.es.md last_edited: 2026-09-06 editor: editorial @@ -26,14 +26,8 @@ Markets enter this set by that test, not by a published rank or score. The set identifies commercial markets outside the metropolitan cores that institutional metro-market research already covers, and outside genuinely rural areas. It is produced separately from lists of metro cores and standalone secondary cities. The two continents are scored and selected as two series, not one combined list. **Rebuilt (2026-09-06).** This page was rebuilt against the 2026-08-07 dataset, confirmed with the originating geospatial analysis team on 2026-09-06. The prior version described an eleven-country selection that included Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Those three countries are excluded from the current methodology, locked 2026-06-30 — a deliberate methodology change, not a data gap. Their index pages and city profiles were retired accordingly. The country counts, cluster counts, and reference distances below all come from the confirmed dataset. selected as two series, not one combined list. Germany, France, and the Netherlands are excluded from the current methodology, locked 2026-06-30 — a deliberate scope decision, not a data gap. ## Country breakouts @@ -180,8 +174,10 @@ The North American equivalent list is at --- *Reference data from the 2026-08-07 dataset build. Sources: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0); Eurostat GISCO LAU 2021.* *Reference data from the 2026-08-07 dataset build (fifteen countries; a September 2026 rebuild superseded an earlier eleven-country selection that had included Germany, France, and the Netherlands, retired under the 2026-06-30 methodology lock). Sources: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0); Eurostat GISCO LAU 2021.* ## See Also