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Curiously, even though Malaysia is a developing country, Kuala Lumpur, if it were a country, would have very high human development...in other words, what the UN would consider a developed nation.
You've also got a place like Brazil, where you have wealthy developed cities and nice areas with terrible slums on the outskirts. In general you've got high human development in the south of the nation, though the the most stable and wealthy cities like Curtiba are south of the tropics. But cities in the tropics like Brasillia or even Belo Horizonte has a comparable level of development to much of Europe throughout much of the cities--much different that a place like Salvador further north.
The most stable and wealthy city is Sao Paulo.
I think most people could get their heads around Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro being "first world" cities even though they have some very poor areas.
San Juan is a small city in Puerto Rico but it's very well developed. I could see arguments for it to be first world.
Mexico City is another one. Though it doesn't have a tropical climate despite being in the tropics.
Dubai, as another person posted, could be. It IS very dry, but also gets summer thunderstorms from its monsoon season; even hurricanes and tropical storms have affected Dubai. Also, temperature-wise, the lowest it's gotten there is like 50F, and otherwise it's always warm.
Hilo is not big enough to qualify.
Honolulu is certainly tropical. It does indeed get a lot of rainfall.
Honolulu qualifies as a tropical savannah, or Koppen As, climate. And it's located in the tropics.
No it is not. YOU just happen to change its classification to tropical savanna, and YOU can get in trouble for giving FALSE information if YOU don't be careful.
Honolulu was classified as a tropical climate first b/c someone record false data on the weather statistics. When discovered that the data was inaccurate, someone edited the right data on wiki, and calculated the real stats, in which made Honolulu a semi-arid climate. The false data made Honolulu tropical, thats why Honolulu was classified as tropical at first, but the REAL data makes Honolulu semi-arid.
Dubai, as another person posted, could be. It IS very dry, but also gets summer thunderstorms from its monsoon season; even hurricanes and tropical storms have affected Dubai. Also, temperature-wise, the lowest it's gotten there is like 50F, and otherwise it's always warm.
Hilo is not big enough to qualify.
Honolulu is certainly tropical. It does indeed get a lot of rainfall.
Nassau in the Bahamas for sure.
Hong Kong
Dubai is a desert. It is not tropical. Go look up Koppens definition of tropical. Monthly mean average of over 64.4 F and yearly precipitation has to be greater than Koppens threshold formula. Neither Dubai and Honolulu meet Koppens threshold formula to be tropical, but they do meet the 64.4 F requirements. But Dubai is a hot desert climate while Honolulu is a hot steppe climate. They're both slightly different climate, but both belong in the same Group B. So, both are not in Group A, meaning that both are not tropical.
If you're talking about individual cities, then probably quite a few since some countries will have cities/states with high HDI but the overall region or country has low HDI.
If we're using Koppen climate classifications rather than being located in the tropics, then it's going to slim down the choices a lot since most of the world's land area is not in tropical climates.
One thing to note is that Barbados is in the top bracket in terms of HDI, but its cities aren't all that big. There are also a lot of French and British possessions that are in the tropics and might qualify but generally those cities aren't all that big either.
There are some lovely small French cities in tropical climates.
Cayenne in French Guiana
Saint Denis on Reunion
Noumea on New Caledonia
Fort-de-France on Martinique
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