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Billionaires can live almost anywhere they want.

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has ranked the countries around the world with the most billionaires.

The US, China, and Germany came top, with China fast catching up.

Some much smaller countries, like Taiwan and Switzerland, also made the cut.

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Even though billionaires can pretty much choose to live wherever they want to in the world, it seems like most of them prefer the same few places.

There are 1,732 billionaires in the world currently. 15 countries dominated in terms of how many of them live there, according to the M&A broker firm Latona’s, which analyzed five years of a wealth report compiled by the real estate company Knight Frank.

Take a look at which countries worldwide have the most billionaires, ranked in ascending order.

15. Australia, 34 billionaires

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Sydney, Australia.