The New Megas are the real economic organizing units of the world and the major sources of global wealth, attracting a large share of its talent and generating the most innovation. They take shape as powerful complexes of multiple cities and suburbs. often stretching across national borders forming a vast expanse of trade, transport, communications, and talent. Yet, despite the fact that the rise of regions has been apparent for more than a decade, no one has collected systematic information on them not the World Bank, not the IMF, not the United Nations, not the global consulting firms.