Asia

Asia Rank	Company	Global 500 rank	Revenues ($ millions)	City
1	Sinopec	9	207,814	Beijing
2	Toyota Motor	10	204,352	Toyota
3	Japan Post Holdings	11	198,700	Tokyo
4	China National Petroleum	13	181,123	Beijing
5	State Grid	15	164,136	Beijing
6	Samsung Electronics	40	110,350	Seoul
7	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone	44	103,684	Tokyo
8	Honda Motor	51	99,652	Tokyo
9	Hitachi	52	99,544	Tokyo
10	Nissan Motor	67	83,982	Tokyo
11	LG	69	82,082	Seoul
12	SK Holdings	72	80,810	Seoul
13	Panasonic	79	77,298	Osaka
14	Petronas	80	76,965	Kuala Lumpur
15	Sony	81	76,945	Tokyo
16	Hyundai Motor	87	72,542	Seoul
17	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	92	70,568	Beijing
18	Nippon Life Insurance	96	66,621	Osaka
19	Toshiba	97	66,239	Tokyo
20	China Mobile Communications	99	65,015	Beijing
21	Nippon Oil	101	64,198	Tokyo
22	Indian Oil	105	62,993	New Delhi
23	Hon Hai Precision Industry	109	61,861	Taipei
24	Mitsubishi	114	61,182	Tokyo
25	PTT	118	59,985	Bangkok
26	Tokyo Electric Power	124	58,605	Tokyo
27	China Construction Bank	125	57,977	Beijing
28	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group	128	56,514	Tokyo
29	Seven & I Holdings	129	56,107	Tokyo
30	Mitsui	131	55,098	Tokyo
31	China Life Insurance	133	54,534	Beijing
32	Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance	139	52,012	Tokyo
33	AEON	140	51,945	Chiba
34	Bank of China	145	51,317	Beijing
35	Agricultural Bank of China	155	48,063	Beijing
36	Nippon Steel	157	47,479	Tokyo
37	Fujitsu	161	46,714	Tokyo
38	Sinochem	170	44,457	Beijing
39	NEC	182	41,962	Tokyo
40	China Southern Power Grid	185	41,083	Guangzhou
41	Marubeni	189	39,839	Tokyo
42	Canon	190	39,611	Tokyo
43	JFE Holdings	194	38,903	Tokyo
44	Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance	197	38,082	Tokyo
45	POSCO	199	37,976	Pohang
46	Nippon Mining Holdings	203	37,533	Tokyo
47	GS Holdings	213	36,503	Seoul
48	Mitsubishi Electric	215	36,483	Tokyo
49	Sumitomo Life Insurance	217	36,308	Osaka
50	Noble Group	218	36,090	Hong Kong

From the July 20, 2009 issue

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Country	# of GLOBAL 500 Companies

Australia	9
Austria	2
Belgium	5
Brazil	6
Britain	26
Britain/Netherlands	1
Canada	14
China	37
Denmark	2

Finland	2
France	40
Germany	39
Hungary	1
India	7
Ireland	2
Israel	1
Italy	10

Japan	68
Luxembourg	1
Malaysia	1
Mexico	4
Netherlands	12
Norway	1
Poland	1
Portugal	1
Russia	8

Saudi Arabia	1
Singapore	2
South Korea	14
Spain	12
Sweden	6
Switzerland	15
Taiwan	6
Thailand	1
Turkey	1
U.S.	140
Venezuela	1

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