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Originally Posted by The Chemist
Nobody could honestly look at a photo of Shanghai and say there are only 227(!) skyscrapers here.
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It depends on the definition of skyscraper - for example, Chicago has over 1,000 buildings over 12 stories listed on Emporis, but this list only shows a fraction of that so it's obviously using a different criteria.
However, you're also right to point out that like it or not Emporis is pretty English-oriented, even when it tries not to be, so I have absolutely no doubt that there are many hundreds, probably thousands of buildings in Asian cities that would be documented if they were in the U.S. but have simply not been reported because there isn't readily-available info about them in English and not enough bilingual skyscraper fans to translate and fill in the data.