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Minneapolis ties for most literate city

Minneapolis ties for the most literate city (with Seattle) in the USA…”according to an annual study examining the “culture and resources for reading” in the nation’s largest metro areas. For the past six years, the two cities have traded the first and second spots in the rankings, which analyze six key indicators of literacy (newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Internet resources) against population rates for cities with populations of 250,000 or more…”

To read the article in the USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-12-23-literatecities_N.htm?se=yahoorefer

I wonder what the most literate city in the world is? London, Paris, Moscow, Toronto, Dublin, Reykjavik?